5 upgrades at Arsenal under Unai Emery

#4 The Final Product

In the past, Wenger was criticized for lack of final product despite playing beautiful football. However, the present demonstrates a whole different story. Arsenal under Emery, have the best in the division shot conversion rate of 18%.

This conversion rate is almost 5.5% more than last season stats. Having scored 26 goals in a dozen matches, the gunners are third in the list of the most goal-scoring team just behind Manchester City (36) and Chelsea (27).

What is the reason for this drastic improvement? On extracting useful stats and formulating them into a more meaningful form, this question can be answered.

Extracting useful Arsenal stats and formulating them into a more meaningful form

Last season in the match against Liverpool at Emirates, Arsenal attacked 30% of the times from the middle of the pitch while 45% of shots came from either flank. Emery transformed it upside down. Unai prefers to attack from wide while shooting from the center. So this year against Liverpool at Emirates, only 21% of the Gunners’ attacks came from the middle while 75% of the total shots were from the center.

Shooting from outside of the box against top goalkeepers rarely creates goals. Under Wenger, Arsenal shot 55% of the times from outside of the box which substantially slumped to 25% under Unai Emery.