
“When the best team in the league by quite a long way faces the worst team in the league by quite a long way, the fun for the neutral is not really an expectation of a proper contest but the prospect of goals, goals, goals. Liverpool vs Southampton on Saturday falls very much into that category — the champions-elect against the team who, even with 11 games of the season remaining, are still in danger of setting a new record-low Premier League points total. The sight of this sort mismatch presents us with a tantalising question: will this be the first-ever Premier League game where a team hits double figures? …”
NY Times/The Athletic

The makeshift scoreboard in Elche, Spain at the 1982 World Cup
Why has a team never scored 10 goals in a Premier League game?
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