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Round up

Chelsea are now unbeaten across their last five Premier League home games against Liverpool (W2 D3), their longest such run against the Reds since 1991-2003 (13 games, W9 D4).

Chelsea have beaten the reigning Premier League champions for the first time since a 1-0 win against Liverpool at Anfield in March 2021 (D3 L6 since then before today).

Liverpool have now lost each of their last four Premier League trips to London, their longest such run in the capital since another four game streak between October 2009 and November 2010, which also included a loss at Stamford Bridge (0-2).

Mikel Arteta picked up his 177th win as Arsenal manager in his 300th game. Only three managers have ever won more of their first 300 in charge of a top-flight English club – Pep Guardiola with Man City (219), José Mourinho with Chelsea (196 across two spells) and Kenny Dalglish with Liverpool (185).

West Ham’s four points from their opening seven games is their joint-worst return at this stage of a Premier League campaign, also having four in 2016-17 and 2022-23.

Bukayo Saka’s penalty was his 100th goal involvement in the Premier League (55 goals, 45 assists), the eighth Arsenal player to reach that milestone and third Englishman after Ian Wright (123) and Theo Walcott (108).

Manchester United have won four of their last eight Premier League games (D1 L3), as many wins as in their previous 21 (W4 D5 L12), while five of their 10 victories under Rúben Amorim in the competition have come against newly promoted sides.

Sunderland have failed to score in three of their four away games in the Premier League this season (W1 D1 L2), while they’ve now scored in just seven of their last 21 matches on the road in the competition (W4 D1 L16).

Rúben Amorim (W19 D12 L19) became the first Manchester United manager to win his 50th game in charge of the club since Alex Ferguson in November 1987 against Bury.

Sigh.