After a forced break of a bit over three months due to the spread of the Corona-virus the Premier League resumed again half June. Some consequences were a drop in transfer spend (and transfers), a shorter pre-season, more games in a shorter period, (as a result) more muscle injuries, positively tested players and most noteworthy: no fans in the stadiums.
In this post I will look at some stats – goals, penalties awarded and converted, fouls and cards – and how they have changed from before to after the required Corona break. For this I will use data since the start of the 2019/20 season – when the VAR was introduced. The pre-Corona Break includes gameweeks 1-29 (288 games) and the post-Corona Break data includes the resulting nine gameweeks and opening eight gameweeks from the 2020/21 season (170 games).
Football in numbers 