Man City in 10th
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When the Premier League began in 1992, 68.4% of the players in the league were English. However, the league has grown exponentially over the last three decades and now attracts top talent from every corner of the world. In this season’s Premier League just 32.1% of players are English, and 70 different nationalities ply their trade in the English top-flight. The first ten editions of the Premier League’s golden boot award were won by an Englishmen. Since then only two Englishmen have won it in 24 seasons – Jamie Vardy in 2019/20 and Harry Kane on three occasions.
However there has been a bit of a resurgence in the English goalscorer this season. Kane may have left to do his annual prolific goalscoring in the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, but no less than four other Englishmen already have 10 Premier League goals this campaign. Dominic Solanke (13 goals) Jarrod Bowen (11 goals) Ollie Watkins (11 goals) and Cole Palmer (10 goals) have been finding the back of the net regularly. But how would the Premier League table look this season if only goals from Englishmen had counted? It makes for some fascinating results.
The Premier League table with only English goalscorers
Chelsea may be in 11th place in the Premier League, and there may be some pressure on manager Mauricio Pochettino, but if only English goalscorers were taken into account this season, incredibly, the Blues would be top of the table with 44 points. That’s a 13 point and ten place improvement on the sorry state of affairs the club currently find themselves in in the Premier League. Palmer has scored in nine separate league games this season. Chelsea have won five of those matches, but if just English scorers counted they would have won eight and drawn one.
In second place in this season’s Premier League table with only English scorers would be ninth placed Newcastle. The Magpies have struggled to replicate the league form that saw them claim fourth spot last season this campaign, but seven goals a piece from Englishmen Anthony Gordon and Callum Wilson see them take runners up on this chart. West Ham take third place, aided by the aforementioned 11 goals from Bowen, whilst Arsenal fall one place from third in the actual table to complete the top four.
Premier League newcomers Luton Town climb from 17th spot to fifth in the table, with Elijah Adebayo’s nine goals seeing them trade a relegation battle for European football. Other shocks see treble winners Manchester City in tenth spot, followed by current league leaders Liverpool in eleventh place. Manchester United fall to 13th, whilst Tottenham take the biggest plunge going from fourth to 19th in the table.
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