A Historic 2024/2025 Premier League Season - For Better And For Worse

[ASFN Admin]

Ipswich were relegated today. If Liverpool are crowned champions tomorrow, with four games to go it's the earliest that the EPL title race and relegation battles have both been decided. That obviously raises questions about the gap between the haves and have nots that the league may need to address. But what other records have been broken this season?

The Good​

• It seems fitting to start with Mo Salah. He has tallied 45 combined goals and assists this season and counting and in so doing became the first player in EPL history to register 40+ goal contributions in a season.
• Meanwhile in scoring against Brighton in March, Erling Haaland notched his 100th goal contribution for Manchester City - and became the first Premier League player in history to reach that milestone in fewer than 100 games, It took him just 94 matches.
• At 32-years-old, Fabian Hürzeler became the youngest Premier League manager ever when he took the reins at Brighton.
• Hürzeler is considerably younger than one of Brighton's players. James Milner broke the record for the most Premier League seasons played in, surpassing Ryan Giggs.
• Under the excellent Andoni Iraola, Bournemouth have set a new club record for Premier League points.

The Bad​

• Manchester United's 2024–25 Premier League campaign reached a new low after their recent defeat to Wolves. It was their 15th league defeat this season, the most in a single Premier League campaign in the club's history. And there's still time to make this statistic worse.
• Manchester City suffered five straight losses earlier in the season. That is Pep Guardiola’s worst ever run in his 17-year career as a head coach.
• In returning to the Championship under Ruud van Nistelrooy, Leicester were relegated from the EPL for a record-breaking 13th time.

And the Ugly​

• Southampton became the first team to be relegated with as many as seven games remaining in the season. They could yet equal Derby's unwanted record for the lowest points total ever in an EPL Season (11).

Related: Will the promoted teams do better than Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton?

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