From Dom : The stats so far
Another day out in Manchester and another rubbish game of football.
An all too familiar tale. Can someone tell me how you play 90 minutes against the worst goalkeeper in the Premier League, and let him have no saves or catches to make, and how he is not put under pressure even once??
We know Wenger is a statistician, and focuses on possession, but the real stats that tell the story of the season so far are as follows:-
In the following 6 games the number of saves the opposition goalkeeper has made are :-
V Southampton 0 saves
V Burnley 2 saves
V Spurs 2 saves
V Man Utd 0 saves
V Everton 0 saves
V Man City 0 saves
In those 6 games we have scored 7 goals and won 8 points.
Consider that the Southampton win was a penalty awarded in the last minute, and was a generous penalty. Consider that the Burnley win was a last-minute goal that was handball. Consider that we didn’t score against Boro. Consider that we didn’t score against Leicester.
With stats like that it will be difficult coming anywhere close this season.
A shame, given this is the best squad by a mile that we have had in 10 years.
As always I hope I’m wrong, but the strength in depth we have this term offers no hiding place for poor managerial skills.
Myles says:
This manager does not do defensive organisation and can’t think on his feet.
He just thinks: possession is the best defence.
He’s far too timid with his substitutions and too soft with the players.
Musatafi’s injury is very bad news for the team and a lot of gooners realised that as soon as it happened.
On Monday, after breaking the two-year contract story, I got lots of phone calls and emails saying: This is shocking news, this is terrible news for our club.