Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior is looking to become just the second English manager in Premier League history to win his first four games in charge when his side visit bottom club Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
A win in the Black Country would edge him towards Craig Shakespeare's record of five with Leicester City between February and April 2017.
Four successive league victories is something his predecessor Enzo Maresca only managed once across his 57 games, winning five on the bounce in November and December 2024.
Rosenior has won six of his first eight matches in all competitions, with both losses coming in the two-legged League Cup semi-final against Arsenal.
Cold snap for Palmer
How best to use Cole Palmer is something Rosenior has had to contend with during his whirlwind start to life in the Stamford Bridge hotseat.
In the England midfielder's last 16 top-flight games of the 2024–25 season, he scored one goal – a penalty against Liverpool – while in 13 league games this campaign, he has scored just twice from open play.
After a blistering start to life in west London, when Palmer scored a seriously impressive 43 goals in his first two seasons, injuries have meant a stop-start campaign this time around.
The numbers show that the fifth-placed Blues have fared better from an attacking and defensive point of view when he has not been in the team this season.
Wolves on the wane again
Wolverhampton Wanderers' mini-revival under Rob Edwards, which saw them go four league games unbeaten over the new year period, is very much over now they're on a run of three straight defeats.
They haven't found the net in those three games and with one of last season's stalwarts, Jorgen Strand Larsen, departing for Crystal Palace on transfer deadline day, they find themselves without their top two goalscorers from last season.
Adam Armstrong has joined from Southampton, but even with his addition the entire Wolves squad combined has just 69 all-time Premier League goals to its name – only promoted Sunderland come off worse.
A protest by Wolves fans against the club's ownership saw thousands of them boycott the first 15 minutes of a 4-1 defeat to Manchester United at Molineux in December. They could be forgiven for staging a repeat after the half-time whistle.
Wolves haven't scored a second-half goal in any of their last 10 league home games. Only three sides have ever had a longer spell without a home goal in the second half of a match; Everton are the worst offenders, with a run of 13 ending in January 1999.
Curiously, the arrival of Angel Gomes on loan from Marseille means Edwards now has four players called Gomes to choose from – captain Toti, midfielder Joao and winger Rodrigo, which is sure to be music to the ears of commentators everywhere.
