{"id":1093770,"date":"2020-05-09T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1093770"},"modified":"2020-05-09T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:17:21","slug":"premier-league-most-prolific-attacking-quartets","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/premier-league-most-prolific-attacking-quartets\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Man City’s “Centurions” rank among the Premier League’s most prolific attacking quartets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Premier League is all about excitement and intense football. To that end, great attacking sides are always the most popular.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manchester City hold the record of most Premier League goals in a season, netting 106 goals in the 17\/18 campaign, beating the previous record held by Chelsea (103).<\/p>\n

What’s incredible about both of these sides is that their goal totals weren’t just driven by one key scorer, but rather a group of players.<\/p>\n

Chelsea 2009\/10 and Man City 2017\/18 are two of just six Premier League sides to have seen four separate players score 10 or more goals in a season. Reaching double figures in terms of league goals is an impressive achievement, but out of those six quartets, who scored the most goals? Whose goals were the greatest percentage of their team’s overall efforts? We’ve got those answers below.<\/p>\n

6. Chelsea 2010\/11<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Florent Malouda:<\/strong> 13 goals
\nDidier Drogba:<\/strong> 11 goals
\nFrank Lampard:<\/strong> 10 goals
\nSalomon Kalou:<\/strong> 10 goals<\/p>\n

44 goals (64% of club total)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chelsea came into the season as defending champions, but managerial turmoil around the middle of the campaign ruined their title defence before things could get serious. That didn’t stop the Blues from once again building around a quartet of main goalscorers.<\/p>\n

Three of the 2009\/10 gang were back; Didier Drogba was once again the titan at the top of the pitch with Frank Lampard running off him. Both men fell well off the intense pace they set in the previous season, but Florent Malouda stepped up to become the club’s main goalscorer. The Frenchman’s outside-to-in runs and impeccable sense of timing saw him bag an impressive 13 goals.<\/p>\n

The other position saw Salomon Kalou continue his ascension to first-team regular, replacing Nicolas Anelka as the second-most potent forward as Chelsea’s switch to using a more orthodox wing-style meant Kalou was more suited to producing.<\/p>\n

5. Manchester United 2018\/19<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Only six sides in Premier League history have had four players with 10+ goals in a single season:<\/p>\n

? Man Utd (1995\/96)
? Chelsea (2009\/10)
? Chelsea (2010\/11)
? Arsenal (2012\/13)
? Man City (2017\/18)
? Man Utd (2018\/19)<\/p>\n

The Red Devils make another entry. pic.twitter.com\/wNeU2O1BRP<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawka (@Squawka) March 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n