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Everything goes wrong for Arsenal at Villa Park
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Everything goes wrong for Arsenal at Villa Park

A fresh Cannon Stats Podcast discussing the match against Aston Villa

On this episode of the Cannon Stats podcast, Adam and Scott break down Arsenal’s kick in the balls loss against Aston Villa. It is a need catharsis and a nice way to get back to some analytical thinking about the match. The podcast goes through the second-guessing decisions that could have been made, the match key moments, hits on the individual performances and looks ahead to some chances for rotation.

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One of the items that was brought up was the right-hand side bias that was on display (or maybe less so than we thought).

Overall, this was not a particularly extreme match for Arsenal on the tilt towards the right-hand side. Overall, for the season this is not a particular outlier performance with Arsenal still favoring the right even without Odegaard in the team.

The midfield also looks pretty balanced in the middle third:

One of the other topics referenced was Gyokeres who has a tendency to not always run out every situation, which Adam saw in the film while he was at Sporting.

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