City Vs Leicester Become The Most Fertile Boxing Day Match In The Premier League Era

JAKARTA - The match between Manchester City and Leicester City, which ended 6-3 at the Etihad, last Sunday, broke the record as the most fertile match in the Boxing Day series of the Premier League era.

Citing Antara, Monday, the nine goals that marked the match surpassed the eight scored in Chelsea's 4-4 draw against Aston Villa in 2007 which was previously the most successful Boxing Day game of the Premier League era.

Meanwhile, the record for the highest score in the history of Boxing Day, the highest caste of English football, is still owned by Fulham vs Ipswich Town, which ended 10-1 in 1963.

While the highest score of Boxing Day matches in all castes of English football occurred in 1935 when Tranmere Rovers beat Oldham Athletic with a 13-4 position in the Third Division.

Another Boxing Day record also occurred when Tottenham Hotspur beat Crystal Palace 3-0 in London at the same time.

Harry Kane, who opened Tottenham's lead in the 32nd minute, put himself on par with Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler as the top scorer in Premier League Boxing Day matches with nine goals.

Kane also sharpened his record as a player who always scored in a Premier League Boxing Day match in six consecutive appearances.

Palace manager Patrick Vieira, who has been sidelined by his team due to self-quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19, is on a different note having suffered his first defeat on Boxing Day, having won in eight appearances as a player.

Norwich City has also experienced the negative spectrum of Boxing Day records, which are now the team with the most appearances in Premier League Boxing Day matches without winning a single win.

Norwich, who have now appeared in eight editions of the Premier League's Boxing Day, had to postpone their ambition of picking their first three points in such a match, because they were crushed 0-5 by Arsenal at Carrow Road.

Another bad trend also continued for Aston Villa who lost 1-3 at home to Chelsea at Villa Park. This result makes Villa never win in six meetings against Chelsea on Boxing Day, on the other hand the Blues have a good record of not losing against The Villans in the same match.

Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove Albion finally tasted victory again on Boxing Day, after their last 11 failed appearances since 2006, by beating Brentford 2-0 at the Amex Stadium.

The series of Boxing Day Premier League matches this season has been disrupted by a spike in Covid-19 cases following the spread of the Omicron variant in England, because of the nine scheduled matches, three of them had to be suspended for this reason.