After a goalstering celebration, a relative famine on Monday in the English Premier League.
Just one game in two games, and that was a lucky deviant effort to win a victory in Wolves at Leeds, ended the goal race that had made the world’s highest-rated league even more convincing in the first five rounds.
After West Bromwich Albion and Burnley fought for the first draw and the elite target in their game 47, the wolves won on Elland Road thanks to raul Jimenez’s shot in the second half from the edge of the penalty dominance that bounced off the field. Kalvin Phillips’ headbutt in the 70th minute.
Before Monday, there were 171 purposes in 46 games with a never-before-noticed purpose rate at the start of the season in the Premier League era (since 1992).
Leeds failed to take 3rd place in the standings; instead, the Wolves outperformed their battered matches at war and finished in 6th place, after disappearing after a bright start.
The wolves scored a goal from left-back Romain Saiss for a light offside via VAR before Jimenez’s third goal of the season.
The Mexican striker scored 17 last season.
Burnley, meanwhile, even though everything won his first point of the season in his fourth game, he could have won all three if Chris Wood’s headbutt at the time had not hit the crossbar.
West Brom and Burnley have yet to win in nine games combined so far, and appear to be destined to be part of the groups fighting for relegation.
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