You Bet | Chelsea and Tottenham ride a wave of goals to the top of the Premier League
The leading quartet have scored the most, with Liverpool boasting four players who have found the net on six or more occasions
The make-up of a title-winning side has many elements but one of them is certainly a varied goal threat – especially from midfield – and that factor has been evident among this season’s challengers in the English Premier League.
The top four teams all have at least two players who have scored six or more goals, while the two Manchester clubs – who are struggling to keep pace in fifth and sixth – each have only one scorer in that category.
Both of them are strikers (Sergio Aguero for City and Zlatan Ibrahimovic for United) but they are not getting much help from their teammates in midfield.
For the record, Liverpool lead the way with four players who have scored six or more goals (including midfielder Adam Lallana), Tottenham and Arsenal both have three and Chelsea have two.
Chelsea’s pair are Diego Costa (equal top among the strikers) and Eden Hazard (second among the midfielders), which makes them the joint-highest scoring combination alongside Tottenham’s Harry Kane and Dele Alli.
Those statistics add perspective to the league standings, and so do the overall goalscoring figures. Again, the current top four teams have scored the highest number of goals (Liverpool 49, Arsenal 48, Chelsea 45 and Tottenham 43).