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The best stats and facts from Saturday's Premier League action

Referee Craig Pawson shows a red card to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy
Image: Referee Craig Pawson shows a red card to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy

With the help of Opta, we've rounded up the best stats and facts from Saturday's Premier League action...

Crystal Palace 0-1 Chelsea 

Antonio Conte is the first Premier League manager to win 14 of his opening 17 games in the competition.

Chelsea have now equalled their all-time top-flight club record run of 11 consecutive wins; set in September 2009.

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It's also Chelsea's longest-ever winning streak in a single league season.

Crystal Palace have lost more Premier League games in 2016 than any other team (22).

No Premier League side has won more London derbies than Chelsea (116) - level with Arsenal.

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Diego Costa has scored 50 goals in all competitions for Chelsea; 17 more than any other player for the club since his debut.

Costa has scored more Premier League goals this season (13) than in the entire 2015-16 campaign (12).

Diego Costa of Chelsea (R) scores his side's first goal against Crystal Palace
Image: Diego Costa of Chelsea scores his side's first goal against Crystal Palace

Costa and N'Golo Kante picked up their fifth bookings of the Premier League season, ruling them out of their next fixture against Bournemouth.

Gary Cahill made his 300th Premier League appearance.

Palace have kept just one clean sheet in their last 22 Premier League matches.

Stoke City 2-2 Leicester City 

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Stoke are yet to win a Premier League home game versus Leicester (W0 D2 L1) - the only side they have faced more than once at home in the competition but not won against.

This was the 14th occasion that Leicester City were shown a red card in a Premier League game but avoided defeat and the first time since May versus Manchester Utd.

Joe Allen has scored more Premier League goals in 2016-17 (5) than in his previous four seasons combined (4).

STOKE ON TRENT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 17:  Daniel Amartey of Leicester City (R) celebrates scoring his sides second goal with Andy King of Leicester City (L)
Image: Leicester celebrate Daniel Amartey's late equaliser

Leicester have conceded in 11 successive away PL games for the first time since October 2001 (17 away games in a row).

The Foxes have already shipped more away goals this season (21) than they managed in all of 2015-16 on the road (18).

Bojan has scored the first goal of the game in each of his last three Premier League appearances against Leicester City.

Jamie Vardy is one of two players to be sent off twice in the Premier League in 2016 (also Victor Wanyama).

Daniel Amartey scored his first ever Premier League goal in what is his 19th appearance in the competition.

West Ham United 1-0 Hull City 

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West Ham have won consecutive Premier League games at the London Stadium for the first time.

The Tigers are on a run of seven successive away defeats in the Premier League and they have failed to score in the last five of these.

West Ham have won seven consecutive league games at home against Hull City.

Mark Noble has scored 15 of his last 17 penalties taken in the Premier League.

West Ham United's English midfielder Mark Noble celebrates after scoring the opening goal from the penalty spot during the English Premier League football
Image: Mark Noble of West Ham United celebrates after scoring a penalty against Hull

Noble has scored in consecutive PL home games for the first time ever.

Hull have conceded the first goal of the game on 14 occasions this season in the Premier League; more often than any other team.

West Ham's last seven Premier League goals against Hull have all come in the second half of games.

Dimitri Payet created six goal-scoring chances versus Hull; three times as many as any other West Ham player.

Sunderland 1-0 Watford

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Sunderland have enjoyed three wins in their last four home Premier League games (L1), as many as they managed in their previous 14.

The Black Cats kept only their second clean sheet in their last 18 top-flight games.

David Moyes has won his last six Premier League home meetings against Italian managers - three vs Roberto Mancini, one vs Carlo Ancelotti, one vs Claudio Ranieri and now one against Walter Mazzarri.

Patrick van Aanholt of Sunderland celebrates
Image: Patrick van Aanholt of Sunderland celebrates his winner

Watford have now gone six Premier League games without a clean sheet after keeping three in a row, while those three were the club's only shut-outs in their last 22 top-flight games.

No defender has scored more Premier League goals since the start of last season than Patrick van Aanholt (7).

Six of Van Aanholt's seven top-flight goals for the Black Cats have come on home soil.

Watford have failed to score in consecutive Premier League games for the first time since last March (three in a row then).

Watford have lost five of their six league trips to the Stadium of Light (W1 D0 L5).

Middlesbrough 3-0 Swansea City

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Middlesbrough have scored three goals in a Premier League game for the first time since April 2009 v Hull.

Under Bob Bradley have conceded an average of three goals per game away from home in the Premier League (18 in six games on the road).

The Swans have registered just two wins in their last 16 top-flight games, drawing three and losing 11.

Alvaro Negredo has been involved in five of Middlesbrough's last eight Premier League goals (4 goals, 1 assist).

MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 17: Marten de Roon of Middlesbrough (C) scores his sides third goal during the Premier League match
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Indeed, Negredo has netted four goals in his last four Premier League games, as many as he managed in the 31 before that.

Adam Clayton registered his first assist in his last 27 league games.

Negredo's two Premier League doubles have come in his last four appearances in the competition (after 44 without one).

Bob Bradley has won just 20% of his Premier League games this season (two out of 10), the worst win rate of any Swansea boss in the competition.

West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Manchester United

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Manchester United are now unbeaten in eight Premier League games (W4 D4), their longest run without defeat in the competition since January 1st 2015 (10 games).

This defeat for West Brom ended a run of three straight home league wins; indeed it was only the Baggies' second feat at the Hawthorns in their last eight (W4 D2).

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored 16 goals in all competitions this season; 11 more than any Man Utd player

Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Manchester United (C) celebrates scoring his side's second goal v West Brom, Premier League
Image: Manchester United celebrate a Zlatan Ibrahimovic goal

Ibrahimovic has bagged seven goals in his last six Premier League appearances.

Only Ruud van Nistelrooy netted more goals in his first 16 Premier League appearances (12) than Ibrahimovic (11, level with Van Persie and Cole).

The Swede has netted in 100 of his 170 league games since the start of 2011/12 (152 goals in that period).

Wayne Rooney has registered nine assists this season in all competitions for the Red Devils, more than any other player.

West Brom have kept just one clean sheet in their last 14 top-flight games.

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