Stats Thread

[Sina]

https://twitter.com/FinerMargins/status/1024026645592727558

[Sina]

[El Gunner]

Wonder if he'll try to not burn out the players, just have that in mind, since it is their first season running like this now.

[Sina]

EPL's best quick passers 18-19 pic.twitter.com/oBbx8QHJzj

— Cheuk Hei Ho (@Tacticsplatform) September 3, 2018

XHAKA and Gwen where you would expect

[Hapless_Hans]

Nice stat but completely meaningless, and useless after so few games played

[Sina]

Arsenal have made six errors leading directly to opposition shots this season, more than any other team in the top flight.

— Orbinho (@Orbinho) September 7, 2018

[RealGunner]

Weren't we leading that stat last season too?

It's the same culprits too i bet

[El Gunner]

^^Yea. XHAKA probably with half of them.

[Sina]

https://twitter.com/impect_official/status/1043078860752003072

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/sports/soccer/packing-statistic-toni-kroos.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsoccer&action=click&contentCollection=soccer®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

[El Gunner]

^^Clearly shows where out weak point still is.
Our 51 in offense is not that far behind from Liverpool, City and Chelsea's numbers.

[Sina]

Shot dominance



Attacking effectiveness



Defensive effectiveness



Expected goals



https://experimental361.com/2018/10/08/scatter-graphics-premier-league-8-oct-2018/

Watching our matches you could tell performances don't match the results
and we have stolen some points
these stats further back up the idea that we are in false position

[boyzis]

Ok i have a question if a player x runs towards the left side and player y runs towards the right side. Another player who runs in the middle scores the goal...

Now how do you measure the importance of runs made by the player x and y.

It shows that stats mean nothing absolutely nothing. They are historic and most often used out of context to prove something that you want to prove.

Thats why i say stats are misleading.

[Sri]

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Watching our matches you could tell performances don't match the results
and we have stolen some points
these stats further back up the idea that we are in false position

Stats will never tell the full story, but some stats serve as better metrics and proxies than others. This is a really nice compilation of impactful stats.

And I quite agree with your takeaways too.

What stands out is how well City, and also Liverpool and Chelsea, are doing so far. The fact that we're so high in the table is an effect of a string of easy fixtures after the first two games, some crazy good finishing, and lucking out in defense in managing to stay in the game when we haven't been playing fluently.

[Sri]

Ozil became the highest scoring German player in Premier League history (30 goals) ahead of Jurgen Klinsmann and Uwe Rosler (both 29).

[Sina]

when our matches have been tied[Goal diff 0](898 Minutes) we have had 115 shots to opponents 111
so i think we were out-shot in this game state before Huddersfield match

[Sina]

couple of stats i observed
Team stat

8 goals from Outside of the box  already this season(from 83 shots)
last season 6 goals from 226 shots all season(PL only)

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player stat

Torreira has been fouled more than twice as many times as he has committed fouls [41 to 18]
was the same at Samp 83 to 46 in 17/18 and 91 to 56 in 16/17
interesting stat for player in such a position
quick feet,press resistance,being short but also good anticipation to be first to many loose balls can be factors

[Sina]

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=340617.0;attach=284432;image

[Jay29]

Some concerning numbers, courtesy of 7amkickoff:

Arsenal’s top creative player from open play (not counting corners and free kicks) is Lacazette with 18 key passes this season. That’s just under 1 per game. Aubameyang has the same number. Mesut Ozil is second/third and he has 16 key passes from open play and 1 throughball key pass. Aaron Ramsey also has 17 key passes. Granit XHAKA is also in the top players, he has 12 key passes from open play (plus another 8 from corners).

Just to make this a little clearer: Arsenal’s leading creator last season was Mesut Ozil. From open play, he made 2.8 shots per game, 3.0 per90. His numbers are down to 1.7 per90. And he’s not alone. All of Arsenal’s numbers are down in terms of chance creation: key passes are down from 11.7 to 9.6, shots are down from 15.6 to 12.7, big chances are down from 2.5 per game last year to 1.9 per game this year, and the xG per game is down from 2.0 last year to 1.5 this year.

And here’s the thing, there are players who have gotten better under Emery: Kolasinac is up to 1.8 key passes per90 from 0.8 last year. Ramsey is up from 1.4 per90 to 2.2 per90. Leaps and bounds from those two. But those are the only two.

And while those two have grown, some players have stayed the same: Lacazette is basically stayed the same, Aubameyang the same, XHAKA the same, Mkhitaryan the same and so on.

But some players have taken a major beating in terms of chance creation under Emery. Ozil is down from 3.5 per game to 2.1, Iwobi is down from 1.8 to 1.1, and even Bellerin has dropped from 1 key pass per90 last season to 0.4 key passes per90 this season.

http://7amkickoff.com/index.php/2018/12/27/we-are-all-lacazette/

Reading that, a new creator - whether that's a midfielder or a wide player who can dribble people - is arguably more important than a centre back in Jan.

[Sri]

Does it imply that we are less reliant on one individual?

[Sri]

Nvm, just read rest of the article.

Quite confident of a major shitshow against Liverpool too.

[Sina]

Top ten players for combined goals and assists in the big six mini-league since the start of last season. pic.twitter.com/TLebkEulMr

— Andrew Beasley (@BassTunedToRed) January 4, 2019

[El Gunner]

^^we're still poor in the big games. The Liverpool and Spurs and even Chelsea away games showed some improvement, we have to still build on that big time though.

[Sina]

[RealGunner]

That has to be different than "goal winning matches" surely?

[Sina]

https://twitter.com/Worville/status/1117054501482061825

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