When do Premier League teams score their goals and what does it mean?

Crystal Palace have not scored in the first 30 minutes of a match and Manchester City have not conceded in the last 30 minutes

By Martin Laurence for WhoScored

We have past the final international break of the year, the season is a third of the way through, the Premier League table is taking some shape and trends are starting to emerge. With that in mind, we decided to analyse when each team in the league has scored their goals and where they need to improve.

We divided matches into three 30-minute intervals and then worked out which teams were scoring their goals early, which sides were peaking midway through games and which sides were scoring late. A lot of the results are unsurprising but some teams are significantly better in different periods of games – and one team is remarkably consistent.

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