Most Embarrassing Premier League Stats so Far This Season

It's been yet another brilliant season in the English Premier League.

We're entering the home stretch which is the business end of the season—the bit where we learn who's going to win and who's going down.

Let's have a look at some of the embarrassing statistics from England's top tier so far this season.

Some are sad, some are laughable. Some are depressing. It's very likely during the summer these teams and players in question will look to improve on these areas.

Enjoy the slideshow!

Worst Record at Set Pieces

Most goals conceded from corners: 13

The culprit: Aston Villa

On Saturday afternoon, Villa battled back admirably from a two-goal deficit against Chelsea but then unravelled from yet another set piece.

Branislav Ivanovic scored directly from a corner to continue the misery and further infuriate goalkeeper Shay Given.

Passing Success Rate

Worst passing accuracy from an outfield player: 55.2 percent

The culprit: Steve Morison

It is often the case that strikers don't have the best passing success rate in the game, mostly due to the fact that it's not their first priority to keep the ball.

A strikers job is to score goals but a target striker such as Steve Morison, who does a good job in the air and at holding up the ball, should have a better record than just 267 completed passes in 484 attempts.

Kevin Davies is also worth a mention, with a completion rate of just 55.4 percent.

Held at Home

Most home draws: Eight

The culprits: Liverpool

Liverpool is a terrific club with a fantastic stadium and loyal fans.

They've been treated to some great football and plenty of satisfying results at Anfield over the years, but it seems this year they've forgotten how to win on their own turf.

Along with the incredible eight draws, they've recorded two losses which totals 10—double the amount of games they've managed to win so far this season.

Home Discomforts

Most losses at home: 11

The culprits: Wolverhampton Wanderers

Let's go one worse than draws and look at losses instead.

Wolves have had a really bad season. Simple as that. Sacking Mick McCarthy turned into a circus which left them with interim manager Terry Connor.

Under Connor, everything has just gotten worse. Wolves have only emerged victorious on their own patch twice this season and are currently on a six-game loss streak at home.

A Rough Patch?

Biggest loss streak: Eight

The culprits: Wigan Athletic

Earlier on this season, Wigan travelled to the Etihad Stadium and received a 3-0 thumping from Manchester City.

To be fair, that's almost par for the course as up until this weekend, City were perfect at home.

But they went on to lose seven more games on the trot, including two early bottom-of-the-table clashes against Bolton and Wolves.

They even lost a cup game to Crystal Palace amidst it, meaning across all leagues and cups, they fell just one game short of a 10-game loss streak.

Only When the Ball Is Dead

Most goals from set pieces: 13

The culprits: Stoke City

It's not an embarrassing thing to be able to say you can score from set pieces.

It only gets embarrassing when you realise you score more from corners and free kicks than you do from open play.

Stoke's 13 goals from set pieces shows their over-reliance on Rory Delap's throws and Robert Huth's forehead.

They've only scored 11 from open play. An average of 39.1 percent of possession per game means they're not holding onto the ball to create the opportunities and they play an average of 67 long balls per game.

Where's the Creativity?

Passes attempted: 1,065, Accurate passes: 910

Crosses attempted: 174, Crosses completed: 40

Just a little statistical taster of Stewart Downing—in case anyone didn't realise just how poor he's been this season.

Digest those figures then consider this next one: Zero assists so far in the Premier League. Ouch.

He's clearly having trouble settling in and as it stands Kenny Dalglish might as well have just thrown £20 million down the drain.

He was a great player for Aston Villa in his second season and I hope for Liverpool fans' sake he rejuvenates himself during the summer.

Red-Faced in a Red Shirt

Shots: 59

Goals: Three

A price of £35 million pounds for an average of 19.6 shots per goal. We need to find this man a dictionary and ask him to look up the word clinical—and then aspire to be said word.

The pressure of costing £35 million must be horrendous. I'd buckle under it for sure.

But Andy Carroll should never have been purchased for this sum. He's not technically skilled, he's not great with the ball at his feet.

I'm not sure what he can do to arrest his slump in form.

That Was Never a Foul!

Average fouls conceded per game: 12.2

The culprits: Queens Park Rangers

Mark Hughes' reign as QPR manager has gotten off to a tough start and that's in no small part down to the indiscipline of his players.

Forty-six yellow cards is a high tally, but six red cards is even worse.

Laughably, two of those have gone to Djibril Cisse after just five games in a hooped shirt.

Hardly a Team Player

Average amount of times dispossessed: 3.3 per game

Total turnovers of possession: 100

This last statistic is an interesting one and shows you how damaging (or not) a player can be in giving away possession of the football.

Emmanuel Adebayor, despite his goalscoring heroics and his admirable assist tally, has turned the ball over exactly 100 times. Not good for his team's fatigue levels.

Being dispossessed more than three times per game is bad enough, but Adebayor happens to be quite a lethargic player and thus doesn't always work too hard to win it back.

He's been phenomenal this season, but he's not much of a team player.

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