Hail King Luis: Suarez Special Stat attack

THE 4th December 2013 will live long in the memory of every Liverpool fan, and it is one of those times when you will say ‘I was there’.

Of course, I’m talking about when Luis Suárez destroyed Norwich City yet again, with not three but FOUR goals and an assist in Liverpool’s convincing 5-1 win at Anfield.

Thanks to @basstunedtored for the following statistics on Suárez’s exceptional performance.

Suárez Stat attack

– Suárez now has 11 goals against Norwich, taking his league total for Liverpool to 51 (now 52), meaning that 21.6% of his Premier League scoring output has come against the Canaries.

– With his assist on Wednesday,  from 444 minutes against Norwich, Suárez has a goal or assist every 37 minutes. Exclude his first appearance against them, and it drops to 29.5 for the last four matches. Staggering.

– Once his second goal went in, Suárez had scored as many league goals as he did in the whole of the 2011/12 season, but from a whopping 81 fewer shots!

– His third goal meant that Luis Suárez is the first player in Premier League history to score three hat-tricks against the same club, and he’s the first player ever to do so in the league for Liverpool.

– The Uruguayan became the 35th player to score 50 league goals for the Reds.

– By full time he’d moved on to 51 league goals, putting him in joint-29th on the club’s league goal-scorers chart, a position he shared briefly with Dirk Kuyt and Ray Kennedy until his goal v West Ham. Fine company to keep.

– Suarez became the third Liverpool player to score three goals in the first half of a Premier League match, after Michael Owen (twice) and Robbie Fowler.

– Luis’ fourth goal took Liverpool to 100 in the league under Brendan Rodgers.

– Thanks in part to Suárez, the Reds had 12 shots on target in a league game for the first time under Rodgers. They’ve only bettered that tally three times since the start of 2008/09.

– Suárez had 6 shots on target in the match. The Liverpool team as a whole only bettered that once in the 5 league games he missed this season, and averaged 5.4 overall.

– Only 10 of the other 19 teams in the Premier League have scored more goals this season than Luis Suárez.

– Suárez is the first Liverpool player to score 4 times in one match since Owen in April 2003.

– By providing an assist for Sterling, Suárez became the first player to score 4 goals and an assist another in the Premier League since Frank Lampard in 2010.

– IF (big if) Suárez maintains his shot conversion, shot rate and plays every remaining game, he’ll score 48 league goals this season!

– Luis Suárez now has 65 goals and 18 assists in 106 apps for Liverpool. Sensational.

Hail King Luis! YNWA!

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