The Premier League returned in typically entertaining fashion after the international break, with 35 goals going in across the 10 games.
Manchester City maintained their perfect start by sweeping aside Liverpool, while there were also wins for Arsenal, Chelsea, Ipswich, Brighton, Crystal Palace and Coventry.
Here, we take a look at the leading attacking performers by a number of key metrics…
Premier League most goals: Chelsea duo bag braces
Only two players scored multiple goals in Matchweek 6 – both of them for Chelsea as the Blues thrashed Bournemouth 5-1 at Stamford Bridge.
Joao Pedro continued his fine early-season form to move to five goals for the campaign, with Jordan Henderson also opening his account for the club with two memorable strikes – the first of them a stunning free-kick.
Player | Goals |
Joao Pedro (Chelsea) | 2 |
Jordan Henderson (Chelsea) | 2 |
Premier League most shots: Manzambi pulls the trigger time and again
Johan Manzambi wasn’t among the goals in Aston Villa’s 2-2 draw with Brentford, but it wasn’t for want of trying: the young midfielder had at least two more shots than any other player in the Premier League this weekend.
Three players had five attempts, with two of them getting on the scoresheet: Thierno Barry in Everton’s 2-2 draw with Hull and Rayan Cherki in Manchester City’s 3-0 win over Liverpool.
Player | Shots |
Johan Manzambi (Villa) | 7 |
Joe Willock (Newcastle) | 5 |
Thierno Barry (Everton) | 5 |
Rayan Cherki (Man City) | 5 |
Premier League most shots on target: Gelhardt gets his eye in
No one found their range better than Joe Geldhardt on Matchday 6, with the Hull winger opening the scoring against Everton and testing goalkeeper Jordan Pickford on three further occasions.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned Barry had two shots on target in addition to his goal, with Villa’s John McGinn also finding the net with one out of three such efforts.
Player | Shots on target |
Joe Gelhardt (Hull) | 4 |
Thierno Barry (Everton) | 3 |
John McGinn (Villa) | 3 |
Premier League highest xG: Delap denied by wonder save but leads the way
Walter Benitez’s miraculous save denied Liam Delap a goal for Nottingham Forest in their 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace, but the striker came away with the highest Expected Goals (xG) return of the weekend.
Delap was the only player to pass the 1.00 xG mark, with six other players accumulating more than 0.75 xG.
Of those six, four got themselves on the scoresheet: the aforementioned Barry, McGinn and Gelhardt, as well as Jack Rudoni – whose penalty opened the scoring as Coventry beat Newcastle 4-1 for their second straight victory.
Player | xG |
Liam Delap (Forest) | 1.01 |
Jorgen Strand Larsen (Palace) | 0.98 |
Thierno Barry (Everton) | 0.90 |
John McGinn (Villa) | 0.87 |
Martin Odegaard (Arsenal) | 0.82 |
Joe Gelhardt (Hull) | 0.80 |
Jack Rudoni (Coventry) | 0.79 |
Premier League most big chances scored: Host of players seize their opportunity
A total of 19 players scored a big chance in Matchweek 6, with nine of them netting with their only big chance of the game.
Of those goals, surely the most pivotal was Dara O’Shea’s stoppage time winner for Ipswich, who mounted a dramatic late comeback to beat Fulham 2-1.
Top FPL midfielders and forwards in Matchweek 6: Henderson haul helps select group
Just 0.3% of Fantasy Premier League managers had Jordan Henderson in their team this Matchweek, but they’ll have been left feeling very smug after he racked up 18 points – more than any other player in any position.
A further seven midfielders and forwards got into double figures for points, with Joao Pedro (69.3%) and Rayan Cherki (31.3%) the most selected among them.
