5 Premier League records Manchester City could break this season

#5 Best goal difference – +71

With the likes of John Stones keeping goals out, City could also break the record for the best goal difference

It makes sense that the side that scored the most goals in Premier League history – Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea in the 2009/10 season – would also have registered the best goal difference. Granted, that +71 figure came largely from their insane haul of 103 goals.

While they had a solid defence – any side who wins the Premier League pretty much has to, as a rule – they still conceded 32 goals, four more than second-placed Manchester United in fact.

So how do Manchester City’s current side compare? Well, we know that they’re just as good – thus far – at goalscoring as they’ve scored 44 goals as of now, averaging 3.14 per game compared to the 2009/10 Chelsea side’s 2.57.

In terms of defending, however?

City have currently conceded 9 goals, or an average of 0.64 goals per game. At the same point in 2009/10, Chelsea had let in 8, an average of 0.57 per game – a better average than Man City.

If they’d kept up that average though, they would’ve ended up conceding 22 goals – ten less than they actually did, which essentially means their defence got worse as the season went on.

City’s form early form will undoubtedly be tricky to keep up across a full season, of that there can be no doubt. But their squad is as strong as any in Premier League history and right now it’s hard to doubt them.

Keep up their current average of scoring 3.14 per game and conceding 0.64 per game, and they’d end up with totals somewhere around 119 scored and 24 conceded, giving them a monstrous – and record-breaking – goal difference of +95.

That’d be 24 higher than Chelsea’s current record, and it’d be a hugely impressive record for Pep Guardiola’s men to claim.