Gabriel Jesus
5.3 – npxG+xA**
24 – Shots***
68 – Touches in the opp. penalty box* (Saka is 2nd in final third touches with 227, de Bruyne leads the League in final third touches with 249)
16 – Successful dribbles* (Martinelli is 2nd with 15)
4 – Shots created off the dribble**
71 – Progressive passes received* (Martinelli is 4th with 58, Salah and Diaz are 2nd and 3rd, Saka has 49)
51 – Final third pressures**
22 – Number of times Jesus has been fouled* (he’s also 4th in the number of times he’s been called for a foul with 16)
4 – Yellow cards**
Arsenal
117 – Shots**
41 – Shots on target***
16 – Goals**
12 – Assists***
12.8 – npxG**
285 – Progressive passes*** (Ben White has the most progressive passes for Arsenal with 39, Ode has 38, Xhaka 37, TAA leads the League with 56 – Saliba leads Arsenal’s progressive distance at 2571)
217 – Final 1/3 passes (6th in the League, Ben White also leads Arsenal in this category with 32, Kyle Walker leads the league with 68)
85 – Passes in the penalty area (4th in the League, Ode leads Arsenal with 17)
32 – Inswinging corners* (almost all of Arsenal’s corners are taken by Saka and Martinelli)
0 – Outswinging corners (only team in the League who haven’t tried at least 1 outswinger)
1668 – Left footed passes** (behind Man City, Gabriel leads Arsenal)
186 – Shot creating actions** (Ode leads Arsenal with 4.55 SCA per90, Xhaka leads the League with shot creating actions from open play with 23 – tied with de Bruyne and Salah)
11 – Shots from a dribble**
7 – shots created from a defensive action* (tied with Spurs, Martinelli and Jesus are 2nd in the league with 2 SCA from defense each)
30 – Final third tackles* (Saka leads the League with 8)
1450 – Touches in the opp. final third**
254 – Touches in the opp. penalty box***
81 – Successful dribbles*
66.4 – Successful dribble percentage*
3163 – Carries***
8277 – Prog. distance carried***
342 – Progressive carries** (Man City leads the League with… 519)
110 – Carries into the final third**
39 – Carries into the opp. penalty box** (Spurs lead the League with 49)
104 – Number of times Arsenal have been fouled*
629 – Ball recoveries*** (Saliba is 4th in the League in ball recoveries)
*1st in the League
**2nd in the League
***3rd in the League
1st* , The table is about right.
COYGs.*.
Looks pretty good but there’s still a few things we can get better at.
I wonder if there’s a way to put a number to how much our games have been “easy” compared to every other team in the league.
538 uses a metric called SPI. I think that could be used to pretty easily compare.
I actually ran that calc across the main teams. Unadjusted for home/ away fixtures, avg. SPI of opposition thus far looks like this: Arsenal 68.13, Tottenham 67.20, Liverpool 66.05, City 66.51. SPI’s dynamic, so I think I took the numbers from the week of the game rather than as they stand now – you’d get a different result then obviously, given some teams are tanking (eg Leicester).
I also gave a simple away weighting of 1.15 (pulled from nowhere, tbh, think I saw somewhere state that there was a 15% difference in home vs away, but dunno where that data comes from & suspect it should be more severe). As follows: Arsenal:74, Spurs:71.76, Liverpool: 70.95, City: 72.58.
Why compare “Touches in the opp. penalty box” by Jesus with “final third touches” by Saka and de Bruyne? Are those two stats the same? If so, is Jesus’ number missing a digit?
I’m not really comparing anything, just letting you know who is doing what. Saka facilitates play, Jesus finishes it.
Thanks for this Tim! Love the old-fashioned by-the-numbers stuff. Good to see that the numbers bear out what my eyes are seeing, as well as the league position.