- Sunderland haven’t won any of their last 17 Premier League games on a Monday, a run stretching back to a 2-1 win over Leicester in April 2002.
- Frank Lampard’s penalty kick saw him equal Andy Cole’s record of scoring against 38 different teams in the Premier League. The midfielder now also needs one more goal to equal Chelsea’s all-time goal-scoring record, held by Bobby Tambling with 202.
- Reading return to the Championship after one season in the Premier League, while Queens Park Rangers will play in the second tier for the first time since 2010-11.
- Newcastle’s loss to Liverpool is the first time the Magpies had lost a top-flight home game by a margin of six or more goals since September 1925 when Blackburn were 7-1 winners.
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