You don't need to worry if you go behind against Leicester, but one team still has a flawless record when leading.
And they certainly did feel mighty aggrieved. Pretty unlucky to get turned over by Liverpool at Anfield as well in what remains their only Premier League defeat this season. Taking the lead after 23 minutes against Southampton and still being behind at half-time is daft behaviour and meant Champions League winner Thomas Tuchel frankly deserved to get sacked. Alex Iwobi made the classic error of scoring too early against Manchester United, who duly hit back to beat Frank Lampard’s Everton 2-1, while Brentford and Leeds pegged the Toffees back in the space of four days in August. Having scrambled seven points from seven games in which they’ve fallen behind, they’ve given back eight points in the eight games they’ve led. Traditional powerhouses in this particular field, this must be considered no more than a middling start from Ralph Hasenhuttl’s irredeemable point-spaffers. Given the awful struggle Wolves have in actually scoring any goals to take a lead, you’d think they’d be a bit more careful when they do manage to get one. Nine points won from losing positions and 10 points lost from winning positions seems somehow fitting for a Palace team that seems to be very nearly very good but just isn’t quite. Going 1-0 up against Liverpool and staying 1-0 up was a much better plan, albeit one swiftly abandoned in their next game at Arsenal. You should not and cannot go around Our League with only a 50-50 chance of avoiding defeat in games where you go in front. It’s not them. We’ve looked at who wins the most points from losing positions, so it stands to reason we’d follow that up by having a gander at who spaffs points away from winning ones.
Stats guru Alex Boyes analyses the best Opta stats to provide insight, odds and Bet Builders for Betfair ahead of the weekend's Premier League action.
Spurs lost 2-1 against Newcastle in their last home league match, ending a run of eight consecutive victories at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The team scoring first has gone on to win just one of these 10 matches (D5 L4), with West Ham winning 3-2 at Selhurst Park last season." The Gunners are also one of three sides yet to concede in the final 15 minutes of games (along with Brighton and Southampton), netting five goals themselves." They've not won consecutive away games in the Premier League since December 2020. Brentford, meanwhile, kept a clean sheet in two of their first three away Premier League games but have since kept just one in their last 22 on the road, shipping 49 goals." "Leeds have won all six of their home league games against Bournemouth, with this the first ever top-flight meeting between the sides.
Match-by-match facts and statistics ahead of the next round of Premier League fixtures from Nov. 5-6 (all times GMT):
* Newcastle are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W5 D3). * Southampton have won once against Newcastle United in their last five Premier League games (D1 L3). 5-6 (all times GMT): * Manchester United have lost once in their last 10 Premier League matches (W7 D2). * Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six league games (D1 W5). * Bottom side Forest have won just once in their last 10 Premier League matches (D2 L7).
* This is the first meeting between Nottingham Forest and Brentford in the Premier League. * They last met in the second-tier Championship in March 2021, a game ...
* Newcastle are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W5 D3). * Southampton have won once against Newcastle United in their last five Premier League games (D1 L3). 5-6 (all times GMT): * Manchester United have lost once in their last 10 Premier League matches (W7 D2). * Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six league games (D1 W5). * Bottom side Forest have won just once in their last 10 Premier League matches (D2 L7).
* This is the first meeting between Nottingham Forest and Brentford in the Premier League. * They last met in the second-tier Championship in March 2021, a game ...
* Newcastle are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W5 D3). * Southampton have won once against Newcastle United in their last five Premier League games (D1 L3). 5-6 (all times GMT): * Manchester United have lost once in their last 10 Premier League matches (W7 D2). * Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six league games (D1 W5). * Bottom side Forest have won just once in their last 10 Premier League matches (D2 L7).
* This is the first meeting between Nottingham Forest and Brentford in the Premier League. * They last met in the second-tier Championship in March 2021, a game ...
* Newcastle are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W5 D3). * Southampton have won once against Newcastle United in their last five Premier League games (D1 L3). 5-6 (all times GMT): * Manchester United have lost once in their last 10 Premier League matches (W7 D2). * Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six league games (D1 W5). * Bottom side Forest have won just once in their last 10 Premier League matches (D2 L7).
Newcastle United's squad are rising in stock in Fantasy Premier League, with some managers looking to max out on the club's players.
[Chelsea](https://theathletic.com/football/team/chelsea/) in Gameweek 16. He’s the go-to replacement for the suspended He’s also top for bonus points in this spell with nine. In addition, he’s taken 19 free kicks and should be seen as fixture-proof. A big advantage to jumping on their players now is that you’ll gain important price rises before the unlimited transfers period. Nick Pope and Callum Wilson could also be part of the England squad on current form, but neither are certainties to make it on the plane. They are among the most porous defences in the league this season. Only [Erling Haaland](https://theathletic.com/football/player/erling-haaland-UqdITFAwdmIrBQfd/) sits in more fantasy squads right now and he has four goal involvements: one goal and three assists. Eddie Howe plans to use this period as a mini pre-season for his players. [Southampton](https://theathletic.com/football/team/southampton/) have kept just one clean sheet this season, while Chelsea have just shipped four goals away at Brighton. We can’t ignore Callum Wilson (£7.5m) either, who has been involved in nine goals this season: six goals and three assists. Schar managed a 15-point haul in Gameweek 1 thanks to his goal, while Botman has registered an assist this season.
There's a World Cup in a minute. Which is both mad and also puts any struggling Premier League manager under even greater pressure...
Our view then was that the more conspicuous bed-shittings going on elsewhere had allowed Howe and Newcastle to fly a bit under the radar despite spending vast amounts of money on drawing a load of games and sitting pointlessly in mid-table. If you were to tell a Spurs fan in July that approaching the World Cup break their team would be third in the Premier League and win their Champions League group stage, that Spurs fan would have been delighted and imagine that their team must be playing really quite well. They’re seventh in the league, above Liverpool and just a couple of points behind Chelsea, and have been as fun to watch as anyone. Fulham are rollicking good fun this season, Aleksandar Mitrovic has worked it all out and the signs are clear that they are going to go toe-to-toe with absolutely anyone and everyone this season. The six-game unbeaten run that started O’Neil’s Premier League management career was an unlikely and joyous thing and even after the run of defeats (which conspicuously contains zero 9-0 thrashings) they’re still right there in the mass of lower mid-table clubs; only five points separates the top half from the bottom three, and the Cherries are right in the middle of that pack. That might well be the entirety of his Premier League managerial career, and the effort to render it into a literal imagining of the Gennaro Gattuso ‘sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit’ meme should be applauded. Of course, the third option we didn’t mention at the start is that he is in fact doing fine and our own desire for the tabloids and Lampard to be wrong has clouded our judgement. Could yet get sucked right back into trouble because the bottom half of the Premier League is ferociously tight this season, but the darkest days of five defeats in the first seven games of the season do appear to be behind Moyes and his team. Pleasantly surprised to see how high he was in the last rankings, but real talk: he would have got a lot lower had another update been done at any time in the last few weeks before Leeds went and pulled Liverpool’s pants down so magnificently at Anfield last weekend. It was clearly premature and has had the knock-on effect of bollocksing Brighton about which is annoying, but it wasn’t a good start to the season by any reasonable measure. The muscle memory of a champion team occasionally allows them to do things like go toe-to-toe with Manchester City and win but they look broken, their aura is gone and the once impregnable defence is starting to look distinctly brittle now the midfield is no longer controlling games as it once did. He’s still there, which is pretty damn incredible really and probably still owes more to the financial implications of sacking and replacing him than any lingering belief that this is going to work.