🎯 The main takeaway: An UGLY win still counts as 3 points
I don’t think that I am going to have the stomach to re-watch this match. Honestly trying to put into words anything beyond this was an ugly match for Arsenal is pretty tough.
Arsenal huffed and puffed, and looked like a blunt butter knife trying to fashion any sort of chances against Nottingham Forest here.
It was an off day from all of the starters and even the subs who came on and did better, were really only better in the relative sense compared to the guys that they replaced.
We should give some credit to Forest here, they have been the second best defensive team on xG in the League and they showed way in this match. They just do not let you have access into dangerous locations and put tons of bodies in the way to leave little sight at goal.
Arsenal dominated the territory in this match but that didn’t turn into much ability to get the ball into good locations or to create genuine scoring chances at all.
That will be a concern and something that Arsenal will need to improve upon.
You’re not going to win too many games where you are only able to generate 9 shots and under 1 expected goal.
I will take it today and hope that it was just a bad day at the office.
📈 The positives:
Noni Madueke’s the chaos agent bears fruit.
