By
Jack Woodfield
Much in the vein of how a Boxing Day drinking session (or 'sesh', if you're a millennial), proceeds Christmas Day, Gameweek 18 follows GW17 with delightful brevity. It's a frantic turnaround, with just 72 hours separating the end and beginning of the GWs - although an improvement on the 48 hours between GWs 16-17 - and this month there's less time to trawl team form and player data. Fear not, though, for pithiness is the theme of the day.
Below are 18 salient stats of GW18, with a variety of topics including clean sheets, penalties and the exhausting life of Lukasz Fabianski. These aren't stats geared towards inspiring impulsive transfers, rather a general outlook of GW18 and the variants worthy of consideration when selecting your starting XI.
Leicester v Crystal Palace
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#1 Crystal Palace are the only Premier League side yet to score away from home this season.
#2 Riyad Mahrez has registered 4 goals and 2 assists in the 8 GWs since Claude Puel took charge at Leicester.
Arsenal v Newcastle
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#3 Newcastle have lost their last 9 Premier League games against Arsenal.
#4 The Magpies also haven't kept a clean sheet in 8 top-flight games.
Brighton v Burnley
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#5 Only Man City (27) and Chelsea (19) have more Premier League away points than Burnley (14) this season.
#6 ... and no team has dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League this term (11).
Chelsea v Southampton
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#7 Marcos Alonso has been involved in 13 goals since his Chelsea debut (9 goals, 4 assists); two more than any other Premier League defender.
Stoke v West Ham
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#8 West Ham's 5 Premier League penalties conceded this season is the most of any team.
#9 Stoke and West Ham have conceded the joint-most goals away from home (21).
Watford v Huddersfield
#10 Watford are the only PL team this season with more away points (13) than home points (9).
Man City v Spurs
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#11 Man City became the first team in Premier League to win 15 consecutive matches after beating Swansea 4-0 on Wednesday.
#12 No Premier League defender has scored more goals than City's Nicolas Otamendi (4).
West Brom v Manchester United
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#13 Jose Mourinho has lost just 1 of his 11 Premier League games as a manager against West Brom, winning 7.
#14 West Brom are the only side without a player to score 3 top-flight goals this season.
Bournemouth v Liverpool
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#15 Liverpool have conceded over five times as many away goals (17) compared to at Anfield (3).
Everton v Swansea
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#16 Everton haven't beaten Swansea in any of their last six Premier League meetings.
#17 Lukasz Fabianski's 68 saves is the most among this season's top-flight goalkeepers.
#18 No player has won more Premier League penalties this season than Dominic Calvert-Lewin (2)
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