End-to-end games, edge-of-your-seat entertainment and several eye-catching results - as we all continue to settle in to another Premier League season along came a weekend boasting the highest number of goals per game in the competition's history.
Eight matches yielded 39 goals across a marvellously chaotic weekend, as three separate Premier League games witnessed seven goals for just the third time ever.
The 21 goals scored on Saturday alone set a record for the most on a single day (featuring up to four matches) in the competition's history.
And just when the excitement appeared to be coming to an end, Leicester City's fourth and final goal against Burnley on Sunday also secured this weekend's round of games a place in the top 10 all-time highest scoring Premier League weekends. That's despite four teams not even kicking a ball.
The most goals ever scored on a Premier League weekend remains the 53 across 8-9 May 1993, but since the competition was reduced to 20 teams, in 1995, the 43 goals scored on the weekend 5-6 February 2011 sets the standard.
The weekend of 19-20 September 2020 does, however, register as the highest average goals per game (featuring more than five games) in Premier League history, with its average of 4.88 eclipsing the 4.82 set in 1993.
Over a full round of fixtures, matchday 42 in 1993 has the highest average number of goals with a colossal 55 in 11 matches giving an average of five per game.
It's now over to Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Wolves and Manchester City to contribute the 11 goals required to equal that bit of history. ufa777
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