2021 was a fun year of Premier League football.
Mohamed Salah defied logic with his goalscoring exploits at Liverpool. David Moyes defied logic by making West Ham a legitimately good football team. Norwich City defied logic by being worse than we actually thought they were going to be.
Despite all of this fun however, the calendar year Premier League tells a pretty, well, bog standard story.
Here’s that story:
Played: 44
Points: 110
PPG: 2.5
Won: 36
Drawn: 2
Lost: 6
Goals For: 113
Goals Against: 32
Goal Difference: +81
Played: 42
Points: 83
PPG: 1.98
Won: 24
Drawn: 11
Lost: 7
Goals For: 70
Goals Against: 32
Goal Difference: +38
Played: 41
Points: 77
PPG: 1.88
Won: 23
Drawn: 8
Lost: 10
Goals For: 81
Goals Against: 38
Goal Difference: +43
Played: 41
Points: 76
PPG: 1.85
Won: 23
Drawn: 7
Lost: 11
Goals For: 71
Goals Against: 43
Goal Difference: +28
Played: 41
Points: 75
PPG: 1.83
Won: 21
Drawn: 12
Lost: 8
Goals For: 72
Goals Against: 47
Goal Difference: +25
Played: 41
Points: 22
PPG: 1.78
Won: 22
Drawn: 7
Lost: 12
Goals For: 73
Goals Against: 51
Goal Difference: +22
Played: 40
Points: 66
PPG: 1.65
Won: 20
Drawn: 6
Lost: 14
Goals For: 64
Goals Against: 50
Goal Difference: +14
Played: 40
Points: 62
PPG: 1.55
Won: 18
Drawn: 8
Lost: 14
Goals For: 70
Goals Against: 63
Goal Difference: +7
Played: 40
Points: 52
PPG: 1.3
Won: 12
Drawn: 16
Lost: 12
Goals For: 39
Goals Against: 39
Goal Difference: 0
Played: 40
Points: 52
PPG: 1.3
Won: 14
Drawn: 10
Lost: 16
Goals For: 50
Goals Against: 60
Goal Difference: -10
Played: 40
Points: 49
PPG: 1.23
Won: 13
Drawn: 10
Lost: 17
Goals For: 34
Goals Against: 45
Goal Difference: -11
Played: 40
Points: 49
PPG: 1.23
Won: 13
Drawn: 10
Lost: 17
Goals For: 42
Goals Against: 58
Goal Difference: -16
Played: 42
Points: 51
PPG: 1.21
Won: 15
Drawn: 6
Lost: 21
Goals For: 51
Goals Against: 60
Goal Difference: -9
Played: 41
Points: 48
PPG: 1.17
Won: 12
Drawn: 12
Lost: 17
Goals For: 48
Goals Against: 64
Goal Difference: -16
Played: 18
Points: 20
PPG: 1.11
Won: 5
Drawn: 5
Lost: 8
Goals For: 21
Goals Against: 25
Goal Difference: -4
Played: 22
Points: 21
PPG: 0.95
Won: 7
Drawn: 0
Lost: 15
Goals For: 12
Goals Against: 36
Goal Difference: -24
Played: 41
Points: 38
PPG: 0.93
Won: 9
Drawn: 11
Lost: 21
Goals For: 42
Goals Against: 78
Goal Difference: -36
Played: 39
Points: 34
PPG: 0.87
Won: 7
Drawn: 13
Lost: 19
Goals For: 39
Goals Against: 59
Goal Difference: -18
Played: 42
Points: 37
PPG: 0.88
Won: 8
Drawn: 13
Lost: 21
Goals For: 48
Goals Against: 80
Goal Difference: -32
Played: 22
Points: 18
PPG: 0.82
Won: 4
Drawn: 6
Lost: 12
Goals For: 24
Goals Against: 41
Goal Difference: -17
Played: 17
Points: 13
PPG: 0.76
Won: 4
Drawn: 1
Lost: 12
Goals For: 22
Goals Against: 35
Goal Difference: -13
Played: 23
Points: 17
PPG: 0.74
Won: 3
Drawn: 8
Lost: 12
Goals For: 14
Goals Against: 30
Goal Difference: -16
Played: 19
Points: 17
PPG: 0.53
Won: 2
Drawn: 4
Lost: 13
Goals For: 8
Goals Against: 42
Goal Difference: -34
