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Martin Tyler answers all of your stats-related questions in his latest column

Who has scored the most goals as a Premier League substitute? Which team has received the highest number of red cards in the Premier League era? Martin knows...

Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler has been busy looking into your questions and has come up with the answers.

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Riyad Mahrez's goal at Watford was his 15th in the Premier League this season to go with 11 assists, meaning the winger has now been involved in exactly half of Leicester City's 52 goals.

Watford, meanwhile, failed to score for the seventh time in their last nine games and they have won only two of 12 league matches since Christmas. However, nine of their 12 defeats have been by just single goal this campaign.

Meanwhile, it was Leicester's first-ever top-flight win at Watford, with the only previous Premier League meeting between these two teams at Vicarage Road coming in the 1999/00 campaign when the game ended 1-1.

The home side's goal that day came from Nordin Wooter and he remains the only Nordin to have scored in the Premier League, despite the best efforts of Nordin Amrabat, who played in the Saturday Night Football encounter.

However, the Moroccan will still have plenty of other chances to become the second Nordin to find the back of the net in the Premier League and both of them would be for the Hornets.

It was Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater's 26th birthday and his 50th Premier League contest on the weekend, while the defensive pairing of Wes Morgan and Robert Huth took their Premier League record when both starting to an impressive Played: 42 Won: 23 Drawn: 12 Lost: 7.

The perfect substitute

How many goals has Christian Benteke scored as a substitute, and where does this rank in Premier League history? Paul, Birmingham

Jermain Defoe scored the winner as Sunderland grabbed three points at Southampton
Image: Jermain Defoe (left) scored his 23rd Premier League goal as a substitute on Saturday

Benteke's winner at Selhurst Park on Super Sunday was the fourth time he has has scored from the bench for Liverpool, and his fifth overall, but he has a way to go to match the all-time Premier League substitutes' record.

Jermain Defoe's 23 goals from the bench in the Premier League, one of which came for Sunderland at Southampton on Saturday, makes him the ultimate super sub, ahead of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on 17.

Former Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth striker Kanu also has 17, three ahead of Mexican Javier Hernandez (14) from his five-season stint in England with Manchester United.

Edin Dzeko then follows on 13, alongside Darren Bent, Victor Anichebe, Robbie Keane, Tore Andre Flo, Andrew Cole and Michael Owen.

Most Premier League goals from the bench

Jermain Defoe 23
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 17
Kanu 17
Javier Hernandez 14

Red mist

After a weekend full of red cards, can you tell us which of the ever-present Premier League clubs have seen the most dismissals? Terry, London

Liverpool's James Milner fouls Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha before being sent-off
Image: Liverpool's James Milner was one of five players sent off in the Premier League at the weekend

James Milner's dismissal in the 2-1 win at Palace was only Liverpool's second in the league this season and of the seven ever-present Premier League teams, the Reds have been shown the fewest number of red cards (53).

Their Merseyside rivals Everton are the unwanted leaders of that mini-table with 82 reds in 914 games after Kevin Mirallas' sending-off against West Ham United on Saturday afternoon.

The Toffees are closely followed by Arsenal, who suffered their 81st dismissal in Premier League history when Francis Coquelin was shown his marching orders in last weekend's north London derby.

And completing the list are Chelsea (72), Tottenham Hotspur (59), Manchester United - Juan Mata's red card at the Hawthorns on Super Sunday was their 58th in the Premier League - and Aston Villa (54).

Liverpool, who have played 914 Premier League fixtures to date, also rank below the likes of Newcastle United (77 reds in 834 games), West Ham United (62 reds in 759 games) and Manchester City (58 reds in 724 games), despite playing far more matches than those teams.

But which side has the highest red card to games ratio of Premier League teams to play for five or more seasons? That undesirable tag goes to Blackburn Rovers, whose 76 reds in 696 matches (one every 9.2 games) puts them ahead of all of their 'rivals'.

The 'cleanest' side to play five or more Premier League campaigns are Ipswich Town, who had just six players sent off in 202 Premier League contests at a rate of one dismissal every 33.7 games.

Most reds in the Premier League
Most reds in the Premier League

After a weekend of dismissals, we look at who has received the highest ratio of Premier League reds

Championship stumbles

Has any team failed to win the Premier League with a lead of 5+ points at this stage of the season? Jordan, Leicester

Claudio Ranieri, Riyad Mahrez celeb, Watford v Leicester, Premier League
Image: Leicester are five points clear at the top with nine games remaining this saeson

Leicester ended the weekend five points clear of second-placed Spurs with nine games to go after a 1-0 win at Watford.

However, although that lead does not seem much, the omens are good in their chase for an unprecedented maiden top-flight title.

Arsenal are the only side who have failed to win the Premier League with a five-point (or more) advantage after 29 games, letting it slip in 2002/03 at the hands of Sir Alex Ferguson's United.

After beating Charlton Athletic 2-0 to establish a five-point cushion between themselves and the Red Devils in March of that season, the Gunners lost at Blackburn.

And then draws with Villa, Bolton Wanderers and United themselves, before a 3-2 defeat to Leeds United, saw the title return to Old Trafford.

Goals galore...

Is the north London derby the highest-scoring Premier League game in history? Liam, Islington

Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal celebrates scoring his team's second goal
Image: The 2-2 draw in Saturday's north London derby means 137 goals have been scored in Premier League meetings between the two sides

Arsenal's trip to White Hart Lane produced another classic on Saturday lunch time with an entertaining 2-2 draw full of ups and downs, and those four goals did indeed make it the highest-scoring meeting in the Premier League era.

A total of 137 goals have been scored in the 48 meetings between the two rivals, ahead of Liverpool against Newcastle (134 goals in 43 matches) and Liverpool versus Tottenham (134 goals in 47 matches).

But when taking goals-per-game into account, the north London derby ranks well behind other Premier League clashes where a minimum of 20 games have been played.

Its rate of 2.85 goals-per-game is a far cry from Chelsea-Sunderland's 3.66 (106 goals in 29 games), Fulham-City's 3.42 (82 goals in 24 games) and United-Southampton's 3.35 (114 goals in 34 games).

But before Sunderland fans begin claiming their team has been involved in the 'most entertaining' Premier League match-up in history, they won't forgive me for reminding them that they've been on the end of one or two hidings to bring that average up.

They've been beaten 6-2 (March 1997), 4-0 (August 1999), 4-0 (March 2002), 5-0 (November 2008) and 7-2 (January 2010) by the Blues during their time in the Premier League.

The lowest scoring fixture goes to Villa and Leeds, who have netted just 40 goals in 24 meetings at a rate of only 1.67 goals per game.

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