Premier League trends include high lines, pushing, sprints, goals, titles, races, formations, and much more

 

Records are broken everywhere as the Premier League records a high amount of goals and comebacks, lengthier games than ever before, divisive transfer windows over spending, clubs holding the ball longer, a sharp decline in manager exits, Aston Villa defying the trend of playing offside, and many other statistics.

More than ever in terms of goals, game time, substitutions, comebacks, speed, sprints, and pushing! Here, we identify the new patterns that the Premier League is seeing this year.

Here's a rundown of the 20 topics covered before we dive into it ...

• More goals than ever

• Goal resurgence for English players

• How five-sub rule has worked

• Comeback kings

• Time-wasting crackdown

• How use of stoppage-time has worked

• Fastest league on the planet?

• High lines and pressing hit new heights

• Aston Villa's unique offside trap

• Youngest PL teams

• Injuries hit all-time high

• Summer transfer splurge

• Winter PSR constraints

• Keep the ball!

• Stick with managers!

• Is home advantage back?

• Is 4-3-3 on the way out?

• Tight titles!

• Growing disparity between tiers?

• What about attendance?

More goals than before

It's official—we have more ambitions than ever. Although the record has already been broken for the fourth straight season, the graph below demonstrates a spectacular increase this term, rising from 2.85 to 3.28 goals per game, or a 15% increase.
Prior to 1995–96, when there were 22 teams in the division and 420 games in a season—a number that has subsequently decreased to 20 teams and 380 games—the per-game ratio took into account the early Premier League era.
There were 1,246 goals in all. 

Resurgent goals for English athletes

This term's top 10 goal scorers include six English players. Up until the very end of the season, Cole Palmer challenged Erling Haaland for the Golden Boot, and Ollie Watkins tied Christian Benteke's record for Villa's most goals in a Premier League season.
Bournemouth finished second in the top division thanks in large part to Dominic Solanke. Other players on the elite scoring list were Jarrod Bowen, Bukayo Saka, and Phil Foden, the FWA Footballer of the Year.