Whether it's a temporary blip or a return to the scoring rates of the 1960s remains to be seen, but it will be entertaining to find out
Boxing Day, 1963. English football shorthand for the sort of entertainment you just don’t get anymore. Or so we thought. On that day, 66 goals were scored across 10 games in the English top flight. beat 5-1, scored 10 times against and conceded eight against . But that Christmas goal fest wasn’t a particularly odd day for that season. There were 19 occasions of a team scoring six or more goals in a game, and the 1963-64 season averaged 3.4 goals per game, a rate that hasn’t been achieved since.
At the other end of the table, Luton Town, and Sheffield United are conceding goals at an unprecedented rate in the Premier League for teams occupying the bottom three positions. On average, they have conceded 2.3 goals per game — the highest rate in Premier League history for teams in the relegation zone. Sheffield United have been conceding goals at a rate of 2.
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