Lucky Charms: Which Players Have Never Lost While Scoring a Premier League Goal?

Logically, scoring a goal helps your team win. But who are the players that have taken that to the extreme and have never lost a Premier League game while netting? Behold, these are the league’s lucky charms.

First, a quick cautionary tale. We’ll get onto the Premier League’s lucky charms in a few moments. But pour one out for the top-flight’s most unlucky player: Wolves, Stoke City and Burnley winger Michael Kightly, who scored seven Premier League goals in his career yet failed to win a single game in which he netted. Or Matt Le Tissier, who scored in 79 games across his Premier League career but still lost a staggering 32% of those matches.

Scoring and winning isn’t for everyone.

But here’s the list of the players who have scored in the most individual Premier League games without losing a single one of them.

Gabriel Jesus

61 Games Scored In – W56 D5

Aside from his four Premier League winners’ medals, Gabriel Jesus is the owner of another enviable league record. His 75 Premier League goals have come in 61 different matches, but the real kicker? In every single one of those 61 games he’s scored in, his side have never lost.

Of course, it helps that Jesus has exclusively played in dominant sides. That’s why he’s managed to speed up this list so quickly, despite playing just 226 matches in the competition. The majority of those (159) have been for Manchester City who Jesus joined in the summer of 2016-17 – the same window that saw Pep Guardiola arrive.

Now he’s in north London having moved to Arsenal in the summer of 2022-23. At present, Jesus has a 91.8% win rate in games he’s scored in. Only two players to have scored in 20+ games without losing can better that feat (Pedro 96.3% and Antonio Valencia 95.7%).

James Milner

54 Games Scored In – W43 D11

James Milner always appears in these lists, doesn’t he? When he’s not appearing in the list for the youngest Premier League scorers of all-time, or those who’ve made the most appearances, he appears in ones like this.

Milner has scored in 54 games across his Premier League career in spells at Leeds United, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Liverpool. Only Jesus has scored in more games without losing a single one of them.

Mr. Reliable does it once again… but he’s still yet to score for current side Brighton & Hove Albion in the competition.

Premier League royalty, step this way

Diogo Jota

49 Games Scored In – W41 D8

Liverpool’s Diogo Jota has scored in 49 games without losing – a tally only beaten by two players. The 28-year-old has time on his side, too, and will surely overtake Milner on this list before his time in the league is over.

Overall, the Portuguese forward scored in 34 different league games under Jürgen Klopp without losing and has added a further three under new Reds boss Arne Slot.

His time on Merseyside got off to a flying start, with Jota not only becoming the first player since Robbie Fowler to score as many as seven goals in his first 10 appearances, but the first Liverpool player to score in each of his first four Premier League home games.

Jota also scored in 12 different matches for Wolves during his time at Molineux and wasn’t on the losing side with them either. That’s perhaps a slightly more impressive feat given Jota’s first season in the top flight came as Wolves had just been promoted.

Can’t hear you over my unbeaten streak

Darius Vassell

46 Games Scored In – W36 D10

Darius Vassell scored 52 Premier League goals across 265 appearances for Aston Villa and Manchester City. Those goals came in 46 games and Vassell remained unbeaten in every single one.  

Vassell did find himself on the losing side after scoring for Leicester City in their 3-2 loss to Nottingham Forest in April 2011, but thankfully for him this came in the Championship and not the top flight. His place on this list is therefore safe.

Of course, you don’t have to lose a game for footballing heartbreak to find you as Vassell knows all too well. After England’s 2-2 draw against Portugal in the quarter-finals of Euro 2004, Vassell missed England’s last spot-kick in the penalty shootout, allowing Portugal’s goalkeeper Ricardo to score the winner.

Rather than that painful memory, perhaps we ought to remember Vassell more fondly for being Villa and City’s lucky charm over a large chunk of the noughties.

Gabriel Martinelli

33 Games Scored In – W28 D5

You could argue that Gabriel Martinelli is one of the less appreciated players in the current Arsenal side, with growing calls for the Gunners to try and upgrade on the Brazilian.

However, like compatriot and teammate Gabriel Jesus, when Martinelli does score, it means Arsenal are almost certainly taking something from the game.

His strike in the 5-1 win at Crystal Palace in December 2024 was his 36th Premier League goal for the club in his 143rd game, but it was also the 33rd time he has scored in a league game for Arsenal. Of those, they have won 28, drawn five and lost zero.

Salomon Kalou

32 Games Scored In – W29 D3

Salomon Kalou is another striker blessed to have played in a dominant team during his Premier League days. Although he won just one Premier League title with Chelsea over his six-year career in west London, he was still part of the team that won both the FA Cup and League Cup in 2006-07 as well as finishing second in the Premier League, and part of the side that finished second, third, first and second in the four subsequent seasons.

Kalou – who had been brought to the club by José Mourinho after impressing with Feyenoord in the Eredivisie – only hit double figures for league goals in one season (2010-11), but whenever he scored, Chelsea were safe. He notched in 32 games for the Blues, winning 29 of those and drawing three.

That’s the top six, but how about a look at the other players to have scored in 20+ Premier League games and not taste defeat. As mentioned, Pedro (96.3% win rate) only failed to win one of the games he scored in across his English top-flight career (a 1-1 draw against Burnley in February 2017 for those wondering).

Oyvind Leonhardsen: 28 Games Scored In (W21 D7)
Pedro: 27 Games Scored In (W26 D1)
Antonio Valencia: 23 Games Scored In (W22 D1)
Georginio Wijnaldum: 23 Games Scored In (W19 D4)
Marcos Alonso: 23 Games Scored In (W17 D6)
Seamus Coleman: 22 Games Scored In (W17 D5)

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