Manchester city vs Wolves 6.10.2019

Fresh from a controlled 2-0 win against Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League, Manchester City should be set for a routine victory. Three wins, 16 goals scored and just two conceded after four competitive home matches are the key numbers so far. Particularly impressive is the fact that City has kept a clean sheet in three straight home matches, and four of the last five overall.

The total goals output from matches involving the ‘Sky Blues’ stands at a whopping 4.86 in the PL so far. Significantly, all of their seven league matches have featured at least four goals, with a majority (four) seeing both teams score.

Wolves got their first PL win of the season in the last round, scoring two goals for just the third time in seven league matches. Still hard to beat, their tally of four draws is the highest in the PL and is impressive considering that they have been behind at half time in four of seven league matches so far.

Arsenal vs Bournemouth epl 6.10.2019

Ahead of kick-off, four of Arsenal’s last five Premier League (PL) home games have seen them lose one half by a one-goal margin. Encouragingly though, they have recovered four points from a possible six after going into the interval one goal behind in their last two home league games.

As a result of this tendency to surge in the second half, the period after the break accounts for six of Arsenal’s seven-point home tally so far this season. The ‘Gunners’ have also scored the last goal in each of their PL home matches this term.

Echoing the fact that all of Arsenal’s PL home games this term have seen both teams score, all seven of Bournemouth’s PL games to date also bear that characteristic. The ‘Cherries’ have opened the scoring in a majority (four) of those fixtures and consistently avoided defeat after doing so (W3, D1).

Southampton vs Chelsea epl 6.10.2019

Southampton’s roller coaster ride in the Premier League (PL) has already fetched them four losses in seven. Two of those have come at home (D1), and worryingly, Southampton has just three clean sheets from 22 PL home games since the start of last season, and none this year.

However, Southampton has managed to score in each of their last 17 PL home fixtures – albeit keeping just one clean sheet in the process. Regardless, each of their six PL results this season (wins/losses) was won by the side that scored the opening goal.

Chelsea has recovered from a horror start to the PL season at Old Trafford, stitching together a W3, D2, L1 run. Each of their three PL away games this season has produced over 3.5 total goals, with the ‘Blues’ winning the last two matches in that sequence – scoring eight combined, whilst conceding twice both times.

That is on expected lines, as Chelsea have already conceded 27 PL away goals this calendar year, with only Watford conceding more (33). 

Intriguingly, even in such high scoring games, the first-scorer advantage holds strong – all five winners in Chelsea’s PL games this season have opened the scoring. Furthermore, a majority of those opening goals (three) have arrived within the first 20 minutes.

Players to watch: Five of Danny Ings’ six Southampton goals in the PL have come against last season’s top six, including two this campaign. Meanwhile, Tammy Abraham has seven PL goals this season, giving or extending Chelsea’s lead every time.

Stat attack: Three of Southampton’s seven PL games were goalless at the break.

Southampton is yet to score a PL goal in the first 30 minutes of play this season.

Chelsea has won their last four PL H2H visits here, with every game witnessing exactly one first-half goal.