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The Premier League Weekend Review
22/03/14
15:08
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We pick up the best and exciting facts that have emerged from the gone Premier League weekend.

Mohamed Salah scored Liverpool's 2000th Premier League goal making them only the second club after Manchester United (2,173) to achieve the Landmark. Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick against Tottenham giving him a hat-trick at the club level in each of the last 13 seasons ever since the 2009-10 season. It was his 49th treble at club level. Chelsea is now unbeaten in in the last 35 Premier League home matches played in March with 30 wins and 5 draws ever since the 4-2 loss against Sunderland in 2001. 

Martin Odegaard created six chances for Arsenal on Sunday, with five of those coming in the first half - the most chances created in the opening period of a Premier League fixture by an Arsenal player since Mesut Ozil's six against Everton in October 2017. West Ham is one of only two sides along with Liverpool to have scored in 100% of their Premier League home matches this season. The Hammers have scored in 16 consecutive Premier League home matches, last having a longer such top-flight run between October 1985 and January 1987 (27 matches). 

Watford’s Cucho Hernandez is now the seventh Colombian to score a Premier League brace and the first since James Rodriguez, for Everton in October 2020. Wolverhampton Wanderers have not conceded a first-half goal in any of their last 14 Premier League away matches, the joint-longest such run by any side in the competition's history together with Arsenal who also have a run of 14 games from September 1998 to April 1999. After five goals in his last two appearances for Brentford, Ivan Toney is the first player to score more than once in consecutive Premier League matches for a promoted side since Dwight Gayle in May 2014 for Crystal Palace.

At 19 years, Joe Gelhardt of Leeds is the youngest player to score a 90th-minute winner in the Premier League since Gabriel Jesus for Manchester City in February 2017 when he was 19 years against Swansea. Joe netted in the 90th minute against Norwich to give Leeds the three points.