Much has been said and written about Arsenal’s poor chance conversion this season. The manager cites it as the foremost reason for the disintegration of another title challenge. Arsenal fans are fattened up on a daily diet of Mesut Özil’s chance creation figures. The German could forge human life with his left boot, only for a careless Arsenal striker to trip over the umbilical cord. XG or “expected goals” has become an oft quoted metric this season- especially in relation to the goal shy Gunners. In the Premier League, Arsenal have treated paying punters to only one more home goal this season than a Newcastle team likely to be relegated senseless. Wenger elaborated this week,...
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