Arsenal 3 – 0 Tottenham – A review by the numbers
wins. Yesterday made it a decade of dominance over spurs in the premier league. Ten years of trying and failing to keep up with Arsenal. They have been reduced to a mere derby, no more can they claim to be rivals, rivals are supposed to be competitive, not also rans.
attempt on goal for “Robbie “blabbermouth” Keane for even that shot was off target. O how his preposterous ranting came home to roost. If that was an attempt to gee up his team-mates then he should have kept it indoors, the witless sod.
The second goal put the game away at a time when Tottenham was quite comfortable in their tactics. Fabregas left 2 players on the arse in that run for the second goal.
3 goals obviously, No.3 Bacary had a good game putting in exactly 3 good crosses, 3 bad crosses, 3 good clearances, and setting up 2 goals.
Bad passes by Diaby Diaby, all game. I know I had to look at this again, while watching the game I’d swear that Diaby was playing for the opposition, he actually lost the ball a 11 times during the game, 5 times trying to take on his man.
seconds elapsed between the time Fabregas got his first touch and the time he released the shot for his goal. Lots of talk about how Tottenham switch off for that goal, none about how good Fabregas’ dribble was. If it was Torres or Rooney we’d never hear the end of it.
6 shots off target, but does it really matter when you create as many chances as Arsenal does. Arsenal are often accused of having no end product, this season so far we’ve proven this to be wrong, we’ve created 132 scoring opportunities in 10 games and scored an average of 3.2 goals a game if we can score 20% of chances created then we are projected to score 106 goals this season.
Tackles won by Song, some people still refuse to give Song credit. To question the wisdom of Wenger in not signing Palacios is absurd, again it come down to the mentality of going in hard. Palacios look more of a hardman than Song, but is he more effective? Palacios is inferior to Song in nearly every department, tellingly Song conceded 50% less freekicks than Palacios, won 42% more tackles, and had 40% more interceptions than his counterpart.
first team players out injured for Arsenal, so much for Spurs “injury problem” they have a grand total of… 4 players injured, what was that about strength in depth?
Nine different managers since the last time they beat us in the premier league, back in ’99.
