Fulham victory extends English football record | OneFootball

City’s 3-2 win over Fulham on Saturday extended our historic run of successive victories over the Cottagers.

We have now beaten the west London side in each of our last 17 meetings, a run that stretches all the way back to 2012.

It is the longest consecutive run of wins one side has had over another in English football history.

City 3-2 Fulham | Match report

That has comprised of 14 Premier League games, two FA Cup encounters and a League Cup win spanning more than 12 and a half years.

In that time, we’ve scored 52 goals against Fulham and conceded just nine goals.

With this season’s trip to Fulham booked in for the last day of the Premier League campaign, we’ll be hoping to extend the run by at least one more game should a fifth successive title be on the line.

Walker 400

Kyle Walker made his 400th Premier League appearance in this game and claimed his 257th win.

That means Walker has the joint-highest win rate of any player with 400 appearances in the competition (64%, level with Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville).

WATCH: Kyle Walker | Best Premier League moments

Now in his eighth season in Manchester, he has appeared 202 times for City in the top-flight after 183 games at Tottenham Hotspur and 15 with Aston Villa.

He is the 44th player ever to reach that tally in the Premier League era, while he is third amongst active players for total appearances – behind James Milner (637) and Ashley Young (457).

With 130 clean sheets in that time, no active Premier League player has ever denied the opposition from scoring more than Walker.

Meanwhile, his 22,940 passes in total is the second most ever by a Premier League player since the stat started being measured in 2006 – just over 300 fewer than leader Jordan Henderson.

A tight game

City got the better of Fulham thanks to some brilliant finishing and equally exceptional defending and goalkeeping.

We had 20 shots, while our opponents had 11. However, their xG of 2.40 compared to our 1.55 meant we far outperformed our xG and they underperformed theirs.

That points to clinical finishing from Mateo Kovacic and Jeremy Doku, while Ederson and his defenders in front of him did well to keep Fulham to two.

WATCH: City 3-2 Fulham: Brief match highlights

On the whole, we controlled the game - completing 567 passes compared to Fulham's 385.

But Ederson's two saves from Adama Traore in particular may well have been the difference.

Premier League stats so far this season

Erling Haaland is the league's leading scorer with 10 goals. Bryan Mbeumo and Cole Palmer are his nearest challengers with six each.

Bernardo Silva's three assists make him our leader in that metric. Bukayo Saka is the league-wide leader with seven assists.

Only Jan Bednarek of Southampton has played more passes than Manuel Akanji's 598.

Our 17 goals so far makes us the league's highest scorers, with Chelsea and Arsenal netting 15 each.