This has never happened in the Premier League. It’s not that Newcastle have scored eight goals
Grigory Telingater September 24, 2023, 22:35 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
And the question is who exactly rated them.
The sixth round of the Premier League ended on Sunday night. The last game ended phenomenally. Newcastle, after an incomprehensible match in Milan in the Champions League, now came to visit Sheffield and literally destroyed the rival.
Briefly some facts:
Eight different players scored against Newcastle, a Premier League record. This had never happened before in the tournament; 0:8 is Sheffield’s biggest home defeat in the first division; the record may not have been achieved because Newcastle scored the first goal after the ball hit Gordon’s hand. But the referee continued the game and the VAR deemed the referee’s decision acceptable;
Sheffield–Newcastle
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Newcastle scored more in a match than 11 clubs in the entire English championship: Manchester United (7 goals), Nottingham Forest (7), Crystal Palace (6), Wolverhampton (6), Fulham “(5), Chelsea (5), Everton (5), Bournemouth (5), Sheffield (5), Burnley (4), Luton (3); Callum Wilson scored Newcastle’s 42nd goal in the Premier League and entered the top 5 scorers in the club’s history It is true that the first place is still very far away: there is Alan Shearer with 148 goals, Newcastle was lucky with the conversion. According to expected goals, the team should have scored about half of them (xG – 4.05);
Sheffield–Newcastle
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Trippier has three assists. It is true that the leaders in assists this season are Maddison, Salah and Neto: they have four goals each; Sheffield fell to last place in the table due to the difference in goals scored and conceded (-12); “To be honest, even I can’t explain it myself,” commented Callum Wilson about the result.
Newcastle came within one goal of achieving the biggest victory in Premier League history. The result 9:0 was recorded four times:
1995: Manchester United – Ipswich – 9:02019: Southampton – Leicester – 0:92021: Manchester United – Southampton – 9:02022: Liverpool – Bournemouth “- 9:0
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