FOUR THINGS WE LEARNED FROM... MATCHDAY TWO

BIELSA LEEDS WAY TO GOALS.. AT BOTH ENDS

IT WAS no surprise there were plenty of goals at Elland Road where Leeds and

Everton played out a

2-2 draw.

Since Marcelo

Bielsa’s side were promoted back to the top flight last season, Leeds’

Premier League games have seen more goals scored than any other team’s in the competition (126), with the Whites scoring 65 and conceding 61.

After seeing out last season with a 5-0 defeat at Manchester City, the Toffees have now shipped seven goals in their last two away games – as many as they had in their previous 12 road trips in the league.

The stalemate was also Everton’s 70th 2-2 draw in their Premier League history, at least 15 more than any other side in the competition.

Brighton’s shut-out in the 2-0 win over Watford on Saturday was the 10th time the Seagulls have kept a clean sheet in 2021.

Only champions Manchester City and Chelsea have kept more in the Premier League since the turn of the year.

IT’S A HATEFUL EIGHT-FUL FOR THE CANARIES

DANIEL FARKE must have groaned when he saw the fixture computer had paired his Norwich side with Liverpool and Manchester City in their opening two games of the season.

And back-to-back defeats against the champions from the last two seasons mean the Canaries have started a campaign with two losses for the first time since 1997.

Farke (above) and side already have a goal difference of minus eight, with only Leicester in 2001-02 (-9) and Wigan in 2010-11 (-10) having had a worse goal difference from the opening two games.

Norwich have now lost 12 consecutive Premier League games, second only to Sunderland’s run of 20 defeats from 2003 to 2005.

Newcastle’s defeat at Aston Villa means the Magpies have won just two of their last 19 Premier League games in August (D6 L11), beating West Ham at home in 2017 and Tottenham away in 2019.

They have also lost their first two games of a league campaign for the fourth time in the last six seasons.