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Come back, Premier League! Come back!

With the top flight taking an international break, it's time to pause for breath and reflect on an eventful beginning to the campaign.

After 11 games, it is Liverpool who sit on top of the table, Manchester United are only sixth, champions Leicester are struggling down in 14th and Hull and Swansea are in danger of getting cut adrift at the bottom.

But what have been the standout statistics of the campaign so far?

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We had a word with the stats gurus Opta to find out, and they came back with these beauties:

Manchester United are playing the fewest percentage of passes forward in the Premier League this season (30.3%)

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West Brom are playing the greatest percentage forward (43.2%)

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Hull City are playing 16.9% of their passes backwards, a greater share than any other Premier League side

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Sergio Aguero has scored the opening goal of a Premier League game more times than any other player this season (five)

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Eden Hazard has already scored three more times this season (seven) than he did throughout the entirety of the 2015/16 Premier League campaign. Six of those goals have been scored at Stamford Bridge

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Philippe Coutinho has already equalled the number of assists he got in 2015/16 (five) and is three goals shy of his tally from that season (eight)

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Coutinho and Sadio Mane have created 14 chances between them this season, the most between a duo in the Premier League

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic went 610 Premier League minutes without scoring between September and November, and still only four players can better his goal tally of six from this season

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Sunderland's win at Bournemouth was the first time they've won a Premier League match when having a man fewer on the field due to a red card

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Dimitri Payet has created 40 goalscoring chances this season in league competition, more than any other player in the Big Five European leagues in 2016-17

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Roberto Firmino has created more chances from open play than any other Premier League player this season (28)

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Chelsea are 14 points better off this season after 11 games (25) than they were last season at this point (11)

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By contrast, Leicester are 10 points worse off now (12) than they were at this stage last season (22)

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Interesting stuff!