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Friday, February 3, 2017

2016-17 Premier League Sunday Feb 05,2017



Manchester City Vs Swansea City
Manchester City beats Swansea City 2-1

Goal Scorers
For Manchester City - Gabriel Jesus(11 and 90+2)


For Swansea City - Gylfi Sigurdsson (81)

Gabriel Jesus scored twice as Manchester City moved up to third in the Premier League by overcoming a battling Swansea City in injury time at Etihad Stadium.

  • Gabriel Jesus became just the third Brazilian to score on his first two Premier League starts, with the other two also playing for Manchester City (Geovanni and Robinho).
  • He's also the first player since Stevan Jovetic to score two goals on his first home Premier League start for Man City.
  • Man City have now won 11 home league games in a row against Swansea - they've only had a longer such run against a side twice in their history (13 v Wolves, 12 v Grimsby).
  • Man City's winner was the 12th scored in the 90th minute this season - just one fewer than in the whole of 2015-16.
  • Indeed, Swansea have conceded a 90th minute winner in their last two trips to the Etihad, with Kelechi Iheanacho scoring at the death last season.
  • Since his Premier League debut in January 2012, only Yaya Toure (16) has scored more goals from outside the box than Gylfi Sigurdsson (13).
  • Sigurdsson has scored eight Premier League goals this season - his second best return in the competition (11 in 2015-16).
  • Jesus' goal, and his shot immediately before the goal, were Man City's only two shots on target in the second half.


Leicester City Vs Manchester United
Manchester United beats Leicester City 3-0

Goal Scorers - Henrikh Mkhitaryan (42) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (44)and Juan Mata(49)

Premier League champions Leicester are just one point above the relegation zone after defeat at home by Manchester United left them still searching for a first league win in 2017.

  • Leicester City are the first Premier League team to fail to score in the first five matches of a calendar year and the first top-flight side since Spurs in 1986.
  • They are the only side in the top-four English tiers to have failed to score in the league in 2017.
  • Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 15 Premier League games; their longest run since March 2013 (18 games unbeaten).
  • The Foxes are the second reigning Premier League champions to lose successive home league games by a three-goal margin (also Man Utd in 2013-14).
  • There were just 88 seconds between Henrikh Mkhitaryan's and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goals for Man Utd.
  • Ibrahimovic has reached 15 Premier League goals for Man Utd in the fourth fastest number of games (23), following Van Nistelrooy (19) Yorke (20) and van Persie (21).
  • Juan Mata has been involved in 86 Premier League goals since his debut (44 goals, 42 assists) - the highest goal involvement rate of any Premier League midfielder in that time.

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