The 17 outfield players who’ve played every minute of the PL season so far
Manchester United and Arsenal both have players to have played every single minute of Premier League football this season – but a long-standing Chelsea record has ended.
Wednesday night’s victory over Swansea marked the end of a 74-match run in which Cesar Azpilicueta started and played the whole 90 minutes for Chelsea, a sequence which started in December 2015.
After 14 games of the Premier League season, we’ve looked at the players from every club to have played all 1,260 minutes so far.
Arsenal
Hector Bellerin
Nacho Monreal
Bournemouth
Charlie Daniels
Brighton
Lewis Dunk
Davy Propper
Dale Stephens
Burnley
Ben Mee
James Tarkowski
Jack Cork
Chelsea
None
The last time Cesar Azpilicueta didn’t start a league game for Chelsea (December 2015):
—Mourinho-coached Chelsea lost at home to Bournemouth
—Chelsea were in 14th place
—Antonio Conte managed Italy
—Alvaro Morata was a Juve player
—Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ topped the charts pic.twitter.com/q7SYkqaeot— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 29, 2017
Crystal Palace
None
Everton
None
Huddersfield Town
Zanka
Leicester City
Harry Maguire
Wes Morgan
Wilfred Ndidi
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READ: The making of Harry Maguire: From Sheffield United to the England fringes
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Liverpool
None
Manchester City
None
Manchester United
Antonio Valencia
Romelu Lukaku
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READ: Antonio Valencia: A tribute to the winger turned world-class right-back
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Newcastle United
None
Southampton
None
Stoke City
None (Erik Pieters falls one minute short, sorry mate)
Swansea City
Alfie Mawson
(Kyle Naughton falls two minutes short, sorry mate)
Tottenham
None
Watford
Abdoulaye Doucoure
West Brom
None
West Ham
None
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