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62 - Total number of aerial duels Arsenal contested v. Stoke today
70 - Number of aerial duels Arsenal contested in the first meeting between the two teams
32 - Average number of aerial duels Arsenal contest in a League game this season
34 - Number of aerial duels Arsenal contested in the first half v. Stoke today
23 - Number of aerial duels Peter Crouch attempted²
10 - Number of aerial duels Peter Crouch won in the first half²
7 - Number of passes Peter Crouch completed in the first half
1 – Forward pass completed by Peter Crouch in the entire game
1 - Pass completed by Michael Owen
1 - Elbows completed by Michael Owen
1 - Shoves by Jack Wilshere telling Stoke that Arsenal won’t be pushed around without pushing back
14 – Number of aerial duels Per Mertesacker contested³
1 – Number of aerial duels Mertesacker won in the first half
6 – Number of aerial duels Mertesacker won in the second half³
0 - Number of aerial duels Peter Crouch won in the second half
620 - Passes attempted by Arsenal v. Stoke
545 - Passes completed by Arsenal v. Stoke
250 - Passes attempted by Arsenal in the Stoke final third (most all season)
209 - Passes completed by Arsenal in the Stoke final third (most all season)
133 - Passes attempted by Arsenal in the stoke final third in the second half
134 - Passes attempted by Stoke in the second half
40 - Passes attempted by Stoke in the Arsenal final third in the second half
19 - Passes completed by Stoke in the Arsenal final third in the second half
98 - Percent of those passes that were played into the area near Nacho Monreal
53 - Nacho passes
45 - Nacho passes completed
25 - Nacho passes in the Stoke final third
1 - Nacho key passes (passes that resulted in a shot)
3 - Nacho crosses attempted
1 - Nacho cross that almost resulted in a goal
1 - Nacho tackles (of 1)
2 - Nacho interceptions
4 - Nacho clearances (of 5 attempted, 75% is a good number, above that is golden)
3 - Nacho headed clearances (of 3)
3 - Nacho aerial duels won (of 8)
1 - Nacho dribble (of 1)
1 - Nacho turnover
6 - Oxlade-Chamberlain shots² (all in the first half)
3 - Ryan Shawcross shots³
1 - Ryan Shawcross ball-breaking tackles
3 - Minutes Pulis spent moaning like a drain about the referees and the Arsenal players after the game
105 - Arteta completed passes²
97 - Completed passes by Whelan, N’Zonzi, and Shotton combined (Stoke’s top three)
40 - Arteta completed passes in the Stoke final third²
40 - Completed passes by Stoke in the Arsenal final third
13 - Fouls called on Stoke
26 - Fouls Foy probably should have called on Stoke
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All numbers today via Opta, ESPN, or my personal databases
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¹Best in the League in this category
²Lead both teams in this category
³Lead just his team in this category
Uncanny! Seperated at birth?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/02/article-2272364-174DF317000005DC-26_634x407.jpg
never. ever. compare. our player. to their orc. in any way. even if they were brothers. fuckin never.
They look like conjoined twins, sorry Nacho, peter crouch is not a twat because of how he looks, hes a twat because he’s a giant moist orc twat……….twat!
More likely separated at the barber’s.
better nachoooos
*Nom nom
Is that Podolski’s brother in the background?
Bloody hell, that’s what you call brother from another mother!
Those Arsenal supporters who are deeply concerned about the Nacho/Crouch resemblance can take heart from the fact that Christiano Ronaldo looks a bit like Maroanne Chammakh! One came 2nd-place for the Ballon D’or trophy behind Lionel Messi, and the other is a use-only-in-case-of-emergecy-or-injury-to-other-players guy who is backup sriker for the Fat Walrus.
Its a weird feeling watching a arsenal left back who actually had good positional awareness and isnt too fussed about getting forward every 30 seconds and leaving horrendus gaps behind
Very weird! At one point Jacky was in possession and was just looking at him to make a run. the guy didn’t budge.
Don’t worry we will coach that out of him
What does Monreal say when he dispossesses someone? “It’s Nacho ball”
Ok, I’m done.
I really just wish they would have put that on his kit
ill get your coat
But it’s nacho coat!
phewww! More air fresheners please!
Can be nothing but impressed by Nacho on that performance.
Tidy, unfussy, solid, got forward when needed and no holy shit what the fuck is HE doing THERE? moments.
And he left one of the Orcs pouring with blood. Fucking brilliant!
I just watched the Tony Pulis interview on the BBC. That man is the most vile piece of shit I think I have ever seen. Out of everyone in the world of football, he’s on the top of my list of people I hate most. Not John Terry, not Barton, not Bale, not Pardew or Allardyce, it’s him. Just hearing his voice and seeing him strut around in that disgusting tracksuit/baseball cap combo makes by blood boil to the point of evaporation.
Just watched that too. What fucking game is that nutsack watching? He’s disappointed with the refereeing decisions? They should have finished with 9 men. This man should not be coaching a premier league club.
@ Maximus
The worst part is he’s actually a shit manager! & that makes everything he says a 100 times worse.
He’s a moron of unscaleable proportions, & relegation or the sack is not enough punishment for his incompetence.
Pubis has to be the the most reviled Manager in the World.
He has the nerve to justify his Orc army as a football team.
They would have given Scotland a fair game at Twickenham this
afternoon.
Please stop likening Stoke to a rugby team. It’s an insult to rugby. Rugby is a pretty cool sport for a lot of people including myself. Stoke City are not a sporting association but a legalised gang of thugs. They are subtly different to other clubs and let me explain why.
If we were to ask any fan – “What makes you a fan of your club? What attracts you about your club?” – there would be varying answers. Lets discount the geographical (I’m from this town) factor for a second. For us, for example, we associate “Arsenal” with beautiful football, roller-coaster seasons, spuds rivalry etc.
However, the most salient factor around which Stoke fans gather is that of “being victimised by the press” after their players injure somebody or commit an act of violence. Violence and reaction to violence is part of Stoke City’s identity, it’s what they unite around. The moments that make a trip to the Britannia “worth their money” for Stoke fans are not their goals, but incidents of violence and injuries. This is different to that of most other clubs.
If we’re wondering why the atmosphere is so “great” at the Britannia compared to many other stadiums, it’s because it’s a Roman colosseum – their identity invokes the caveman/Freudian (whatever you want to call it) within humans. Excuse this graphic metaphor, but it’s like watching snuff instead of porn.
This is why Stoke are “feared”. Each football club is unique and has proud supporters in its own way, but the reasons why Stoke are unique and has proud supporters have mostly nothing to do with sports at all.
@Bonjour: A simple “Fuck Stoke” would have sufficed.
Fuck Stoke
@maximus good comments but John Terry really is the lowest of the low unless
Pubis is sleeping with Crouch’s wife
What if Pubis is sleeping with Crouch??
Yes, he’s horrid. But he’s still only the 2nd worst. Ferguscum has him beat by a mile in the most vile contest.
I actually almost felt sorry for Michael Owen yesterday. I mean, it’s his own fault that he decided to team up with such a hateful bunch of cunts, sure. But I reckon he probably had a moment of realisation after that punch on Arteta.
“What the fuck am I doing here? I’m surrounded by bloodthirsty, salivating knuckledraggers. My manager is spawned from the horrific love child of Satan and Jeremy Kyle. What have I become?!” ….. sob sob sob
Hahahahahah.
The only bloke from Stoke not playing rugby today was the only one who could legally pick the ball up in the field of play. Mordor cunts..
That Nacho shot that flew well over, some will critisize that but I look at it this way. A signing that understood the importance of a win and tried to go for goal. I couldn’t ask for more, great debut from him though…..
P/s yeah you know it. Fuck stoke, Such cocks.
Agreed. Fact that Nacho even attempted that 25-yarder with his RIGHT foot means he’s confident with BOTH feet kinda like Santi Cazorla. I’ve never seen Gibbs ever attempt to use his right foot for a pass/shot/cross. Left-backs are at their most dangerous when they cut inside with their left foot (leaving the defender stumbling) followed by a killer pass with their right.
I hope stoke get relegated and nvr come back to EPL ever again..oh and shawcross is a bitch.
Love the stat about Arteta completing more passes than Stoke’s top 3 passers put together. Good to have him back in the team.
Really good to have him back. Keeps things calm. And that (totally legal) tackle on Owen is fun to watch on repeat. Good to (hopefully) be able to rotate Arteta, Diaby, Cazorla and Wilshere. Not even sure there’s a “best” combination there, as they’re all so good.
Ramsey. Ramsey is also developing really well, and should also be getting regular (ish) game time.
2 – Nachos Eaten
Only 2?!?
Why you complaining? They Nacho Nachos!
God, we are going to be so sick of these jokes, if most of us are not already.
Watching nacho as our left back was a new experience for me.I’ve only ever seen clichy and Gibbs during a full match for us and they both liked to get forward.Nacho just seemed fine with staying reasonably in the middle of their half but made a few overlapping runs from which we could have scored.Granted his display wasn’t as swashbuckling as Gibss usually is but he did a very good job.He seems perfect for premier league football because nearly every premier league game can be won by simple disciplinemixed with a reasonable amount of quality which is what i saw from him today.
1- Professional football team spotted on the pitch today.
Yep
Just seen the interview so it doesn’t matter if the linesman got the decision wrong then. The bloke just plays frustrating football(I use the word football very lightly). They had no real interest in trying to score just long ball to crouch, Arsenal did well in clearing up the 2nd ball from any crouch head on so it makes Per’s stats look a bit off. It will be a great day when Stoke get relegated
Nacho should’ve gone in from behind on Shawcross, leaving him flat and say “dinner is served”.
Stanley Matthews,Gordon Banks,George Eastham and any other fine ex Stoke players you must be thinking wtf is happening to see such a bunch of thugs
masquerading as footballers at this once fine club. RIP
I can’t believe that Lee Dixon and Bouldy actually played for Stoke before they were noticed by us and later bought. The Stoke cunts are too dumb to realise that they actually have a solid platform to become a good midtable premier league team like Fulham who can play actual football instead of rugby.Instead they just keep kicking the other team for 90 minutes hoping an opposition player will keel over and let them run on goal. Look at a team like Swansea who just came up a season ago and are doing really well.Instead the Uruk-hai stick to the rigid rugby and don’t even try to introduce anything of substance into their play.You want to play physical football, fine but atleast have a couple of technical options other than that little cunt who shit his buckets in front of Jack today. Dumbass sickle wielding,snarling cunts!!!!
There was a time when Stoke was a respectable football team with some good players. Their fans, however, have always been troglodytes.
On a side note, isn’t it weird that Stoke were able to take off their forward and a couple of other cunts and bring on three forwards? Who’d have thought that Stoke had that many forwards. I thought they were all fucking central defenders in that team.
What was the fucking point of bringing on three forwards anyway? The rest of the team have their thug-and-hoof game so ingrained in them that they were still aiming long balls for Crouch even after they had substituted him.
Dumb fucking managers make for dumb fucking footballers.
Lee Dixon and Steve Bould were Stoke players before they played for Arsenal too. Just goes to show they weren’t always a classless, cuntish club.
No, it just proves that anyone playing for them who isn’t a classless cunt leaves as soon as they can.
Wenger’Hey Andre,have a seat on the bench-the left back position is nacho problem today…’
That was a heck of a message for him from Arsene Wenger.
“Andre, I don’t trust you.”
And now Pulis is complaining about how much more we are spending than they are. Are you fucking kidding me? Just read an article that said that Pulis have spent 120m £ more than Arsenal since he took over Stoke. Don’t think he knows that it is possible to sell with a profit. Not our foult that they buy crap and we don’t.
I do wonder if there is any bigger hypocrit than Pulis, I certainly find that hard to understand.
This is the man who wants players retrospectively banned for simulation and then
keeps quiet while his bunch of thugs create carnage for all to see.Strange he didn’t see Whelan jump on the Man C player last week.
Imbecilic moron
Fuck Stoke – players, manager and supports. A huge sea of cunts, the lot of them.
Arsenal till I die.
I lol’d at the picture tags. ‘Winning’ and ‘Shawcunt’, this site makes me so fucking happy. Up the arse till my country men learn how to take fucking penalties.
BBC and Motd say stoke had 53% possession?!
They must be high right?
really though, what the fuck is that?
they never eat nachos!
that’s why?
Yeah, but the BBC have bought into Stoke’s brand of “war-for-a-draw”.
All of the time that the ball is out of play is added as Stoke possession because it produces nothing of value to the game, just like when they have the ball.
11- no of cunts playing for stoke even after some of them getting substituted.
@gibsun. We had atleast 71% of possesion. The BBC and motd were obviously high, Confused twats or ‘arry was adding up the numbers perhaps?
http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/stoke-city-have-spent-120m-more-than-arsenal-since-tony-pulis-too
Tiny Penis is the CUNTLORD of the CUNTS!!!
http://www.football365.com/news/21554/8466002/Stoke-City-manager-Tony-Pulis-criticises-Arsenal-players-after-1-0-defeat
“If you compare the two clubs in terms of resources, it’s not a level playing field, so you really have to dig in.” – Tony Pubis after yesterday.
Maybe, if they didn’t play like feebleminded gorillas each game and sorted that inbred hoard of cretins they call supporters they would attract players that can actually PLAY SOME FOOTBALL.
great to see us hitting back hard and not getting pushed around by a team who think they can bully themselves a football result,showed a great fighting spirit and will to win,coyg
pubis on the arteta chalkenge “it was a poor challenge from arteta”, seems a bit fucking rich coming from him.
At least Arsenal players can tackle. Arteta was 100% on the ball. Not like him and his neanderthals.
Oooooh there’s just nothing that makes me happier than Pubis losing! Fuck that miserable, ball cap wearing, inbred degenerate.
I’ve rewatched that tackle multiple times. It was a great, totally fair challenge. Owen was just pissed he got sniped on his first touch of the game, and sent him flying.
1 – Number of orcs bloodied by Nacho
2 – Number of times Nacho clocked walters with his head
Who knew orcs actually bleed red, I expected a green ooze
poor comments!
I am Arsenal fan!
no Stoke,Spurs or Manu hater!
I like football, what about you? Really? I dont think so!
I am a football fan. What has that got to do with fucking Stoke City?
Anyway, there are no Manu haters here. We all really loved the guy. A great player.
nacho= crouch+gary neville
LOL
no thanks
The Orcs must die
I tend to turn off when Stoke are on, but I hear their fans bleating on about how they get bad publicity and aren’t dirty. Last week I saw Glen Whelans terrible assault on Garcia, this week I watched a team systematically foul, snipe and cheat while attempting to play no football and their twat of a manager has the balls to critisise our players? Shawcross and Owen should have gone, but if you’d watched MOTD you wouldn’t know because they didn’t show it (I believe they highlighted Owen in the post match guff that we all fast forward)
I can’t believe how Stoke are allowed to continue their “philosophy” game after game by refs. If that had been any other player in any other team in the league doing that tackle on Kos it would have been a straight red.
Refs just seem to look at it and go “Oh that’s just Stoke for ya!” and then run along as if the neanderthals didn’t come flying in studs first into every challenge.
It won’t be long before a Stoke player breaks a players leg and then Pulis will go “oh it was an accident!”. It’s not an accident if you repeatedly commit to challenges that could potentially injure the other player. Sooner or later, it will happen!
You missed out the word ‘again’. As in, ‘It won’t be long before a Stoke player breaks a player’s leg *again* and then Pulis….’ etc.
Can almost picture the orcs training sessions… ” you have to punch them Michael, you know, with your fist”…. “That’s it, clench it and swing”…. Monday morning and Owens gonna be kept behind for extra training…