Manchester City vs Southampton

Man City’s Erling Haaland scored his 74th Premier League goal, 32 more than any other player since he joined the division in 2022. Today was just his third strike in a 1-0 victory, however.

Southampton are winless in their last 22 Premier League games (D5 L17), the outright third longest such run in the competition’s history after Derby County (32 in 2007-08) and Sunderland (26 between 2002 and 2005).

Man City extended their unbeaten Premier League run to 32 games, with 28 of those coming in 2024 – only Chelsea in 2005 (29) have had a longer unbeaten run from the start of a calendar year in the competition’s history.

Since losing three consecutive Premier League home games against Southampton between 2001 and 2004, Man City are unbeaten in their last 12 against them at the Etihad Stadium (W10 D2).

Southampton have won just one of their last 14 Premier League meetings with Manchester City (D3 L10), picking up a 1-0 home win in July 2020.

Manchester City are on their longest ever unbeaten league run, going 31 Premier League games without defeat since losing to Aston Villa last December (W25 D6). They’ve fallen behind 12 times in that run and come back to win 10 of those games (D2).

Southampton have lost seven of their eight Premier League games this season, drawing the other against Ipswich in September. It’s just the second time the Saints have ever failed to win their opening eight matches of a league campaign, after 1998-99 (first 9).

Manchester City have gained 13 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season, more than any other side. Indeed, it is the most points a team has earned from losing positions in the opening eight matches of a Premier League season ever.