Southampton's tally of 16 points from eight games is their highest in a top-flight season since 1983-84, when they earned 17 points at the same stage and went on to finish second.
•The 8-0 win over Sunderland last weekend was their biggest margin of victory in a league match since December 1921, when they beat Northampton Town by the same score.
•The Saints have the best penalty record of any team in the Premier League (53 taken, 51 scored).
•Ronald Koeman has made the fewest substitutions in the Premier League this season (19).
•Fraser Forster has the best saves to shots ratio of any first-choice goalkeeper in the top flight in 2014-15 (75%).
•Dusan Tadic became the first player to provide four goal assists in a single Premier League game since Arsenal's Santi Cazorla against Wigan in May 2013. He is only the sixth player to assist four Premier League goals in a game (after Bergkamp, Reyes, Fabregas, Adebayor and Cazorla).