Liverpool win whenever they concede first, West Ham lose

Sky Sports stats offers more misery to worried West Ham fans

The pick of the stats in Martin Tyler’s weekly Sky Sports column is a table showing how many points each Premier League team has taken this season after conceding first. Tellingly, table-toppers Liverpool have won all four games that they have trailed while relegation-threatened West Ham, have lost all seven after going behind.

It’s another worrying stat for West Ham fans to accompany the one that, despite having the fourth-best first-half record, they have the worst record in the whole division after the interval. The Sky Sports table listed the teams in order of total points won, which skews things slightly as teams like Hull have trailed far more often than Liverpool and Manchester United.

So to reflect things in a more balanced manner, chickendinner has ranked the teams on their average points per game where they have conceded the first goal. This shows just how superior to everyone else Liverpool are at fighting back as well as showing that Chelsea aren’t too shabby at it either. Check out where your club stand after the jump:

Posted: December 11th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment

Why Manchester City won’t win the worst televised match of the season

Bolton/ Manchester City, 4pm, Sky Sports 1, Free £10 bet

Last Sunday the Premier League put on a brilliant show: Liverpool ended Chelsea’s 86 match unbeaten home run, Tottenham picked up their first win of the season, Robinho scored three fantastic goals and Emmanuel Adebayor came off the bench to single-handedly beat West Ham. How do you follow that? Apparently by making Bolton versus Manchester City, a tie that has finished goalless for two consecutive seasons, the only game on the box. Here’s why Sky have made a bad decision and City won’t win:

Five reasons why Manchester City won’t win at the Reebok

1. Two wins against Sunderland aside, Manchester City haven’t won a domestic away game since beating the champions Manchester United at Old Trafford in February.

2. The Citizens haven’t won or even scored at the Reebok in the league in the last three seasons, going five hours and eight minutes without a goal.

3. Mark Hughes’ side have kept just one clean sheet in their last ten domestic away games.

4. Manchester City

Posted: October 31st, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment