Newcastle 1-1 Man City Stats: Champions Slip Up at St James’ Park

Check out the best facts, stats and Opta data from a feisty affair in Saturday’s early kick-off in the Premier League with our Newcastle vs Man City stats page.

For the second week running, Manchester City dropped points from a winning position, this time stuttering to a draw with Newcastle after Anthony Gordon equalised from the penalty spot in the second half.

Much has been made of the absence of key midfielder Rodri, who will miss the whole season with an ACL injury suffered in the draw against Arsenal last week, and City were way off their best without him here.

They did go ahead through Josko Gvardiol after some neat work down the left from Jack Grealish, but never truly threatened to add their lead after that. They were made to pay just before the hour mark, too, when Gordon converted a penalty having been brought down in the box by Ederson. It was the seventh penalty Gordon had won since the start of last season in Premier League games – at least four more than anyone else.

Newcastle ended the game the stronger, and may even feel like this was a missed opportunity to beat the reigning champions.

City remain top of the table for a few hours at least, with Arsenal and Liverpool able to overtake them later on Saturday.

Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Newcastle vs Man City stats from their Premier League meeting at St James’ Park.

The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own post-match analysis.

Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well. 

Newcastle vs Man City: Post-Match Facts

• Newcastle United have won just one of their last 26 Premier League games against the league leaders (D7 L18) while they have now won just one of their last 34 meetings with Manchester City in the competition (D6 L27), 2-1 in January 2019.
• Despite drawing back-to-back league games for the first time since March, Manchester City have stretched their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 29 games (W23 D6), just one behind their all-time longest such streak in the competition (30 between April 2017 and January 2018).
• Newcastle have won 11 points from their opening six league matches this season (W3 D2 L1), their best return at this stage of a Premier League campaign since 2011-12 under Alan Pardew (12 – W3 D3).  
• This 1-1 draw ended a run of 14 consecutive Premier League games in which Manchester City had scored multiple goals; that was the joint-second longest such run in the competition’s history (Liverpool 15 between March and September 2019).
• Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon has won seven penalties in the Premier League since the beginning of last season, at least four more than any other player (Raheem Sterling – 3).
• Since his first Premier League season in 2017-18, Man City’s Ederson has conceded more penalties in the competition than any other goalkeeper (6), with all six of those scored by the opposition.
• Since April when he netted his first Premier League goal against Luton Town, Manchester City’s Josko Gvardiol has scored more goals in the competition than any other defender (5). 
• For Manchester City’s opening goal, Jack Grealish recorded just his second Premier League assist since the beginning of last season, also doing so against Sheffield United in August last year (25 appearances).

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