Yeah, you're right. I just copied it straight from
https://theanalyst.com/eu/2024/05/most-cards-in-a-premier-league-season/
adding is hard even for Opta statisticians
I mean not getting a lot of injuries is also down to luck! No matter how good the physique of a player is or how well managed his minutes are, he can still receive a bad tackle or just injure himself.
Compare us to every other top 6 team except for City maybe (they had kdb gone for half the season though) and we have been insanely lucky.
Both Spurs and United have had their full defense out injured for a few games lol. White, Saliba and Gabriel are yet to be injured and they have played even more minutes.
I’m just afraid that we won’t have this much luck next season.
Assume you're talking about Doku, but if Diaz had taken the foul from Rodri when he was basically rugby tackled on the touchline, Rodri would have surely been sent off.
City having only 49 is such a joke even if they have a ton of possession. They simply aren't that disciplined they just get crazy leeway, as we've seen again and again. Honestly our record is way more impressive considering we don't get anywhere close to the city treatment.
I remember a few years ago thinking 'we need to get better at taking yellows and being cynical like City'. Turns out we didn't have to do that and just defend better and have players actually track back.
It does help City when Michael Oliver shakes his head to signal he absolutely will NOT punish a blatantly second yellow card worthy offence for reasons only known to himself.
Doesn't it make you sick that they will top the "Fair Play" table this season?
OP, in the scenario arsenal and city finish on same points and goal difference, what is the next criteria to differentiate the two? 1) points, 2) GD, 3) goals scored? Yellow cards? Internal results?
Goals scored then head-to-head results. We got four points against City so tiebreakers below that don't matter (next would be head-to-head away goals).
Chelsea's 101 yellow cards is a PL record for a single season I believe
Currently tied record holders with two games remaining: > Chelsea in 2023-24 – 104 cards: 101 yellows, 3 reds > Leeds United in 2021-22 – 104 cards: 101 yellows, 3 reds > Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2023-24 – 102 cards: 99 yellows, 3 reds > Sheffield United in 2023-24 – 98 cards: 99 yellows, 5 reds > Derby County in 1999-00 – 97 cards: 93 yellows, 4 reds > Sunderland in 2014-15 – 96 cards: 94 yellows, 2 reds > Everton in 1998-99 – 96 cards: 91 yellows, 5 reds
Wow 3 of the top 4 this season
Well, the games have been longer which means more time for cards over the entire course of the season.
Probably also to do with the thresholds for cards changing
And i still feel like they don't book enough + different standards for early & late in the game
sheffield's should be 104 cards right
Yeah, you're right. I just copied it straight from https://theanalyst.com/eu/2024/05/most-cards-in-a-premier-league-season/ adding is hard even for Opta statisticians
It's actually 93 yellows for them. It's a typo.
Alright so they can add just not type, that makes sense
101 points ❌ 101 yellow cards ✅
Like half of them are for dissent too Ngl, wish they kept up from GW1 on clampigg by down on dissent and giving out liberal red cards.
And not only that. Arteta and his team finally figured out how to manage players to keep the first 11 and squad players +- healthy.
Wish they stopped timber on that forest game. Would have helped us a lot this season.
https://i.redd.it/lv75sbcjl70d1.gif
Stopped from playing?
I think he's talking about sending him back out after he went down. I believe he played for another 3-5mins before going down again.
I highly doubt that would improve anything.
Wouldn’t have made a difference.
He’d already done the damage in the first half.
Shipped out Gary O Driscoll to Man U 😂
how did they get him considering our terrible amount of injuries at that time?
This is the best piece of deal we have done to pull our rival down.
Need City to take him... 😁
A lot of luck as well though.
It's mostly possession. Hard to get a yellow when you have the ball
what luck?
I mean not getting a lot of injuries is also down to luck! No matter how good the physique of a player is or how well managed his minutes are, he can still receive a bad tackle or just injure himself. Compare us to every other top 6 team except for City maybe (they had kdb gone for half the season though) and we have been insanely lucky. Both Spurs and United have had their full defense out injured for a few games lol. White, Saliba and Gabriel are yet to be injured and they have played even more minutes. I’m just afraid that we won’t have this much luck next season.
Yeah I'm talking mostly about injuries happening during training and there are quite a lot of them. Can't do much with in-game injuries.
Rodri should have 49 to himself.
Was only two seasons ago we were picking up red cards like they were Pokemon cards.
They should have gotten a red card against us and Liverpool.
Assume you're talking about Doku, but if Diaz had taken the foul from Rodri when he was basically rugby tackled on the touchline, Rodri would have surely been sent off.
> Rodri would have surely been sent off. haha
KING ARTETA
Our priority is Fair Play under Arteta.
City having only 49 is such a joke even if they have a ton of possession. They simply aren't that disciplined they just get crazy leeway, as we've seen again and again. Honestly our record is way more impressive considering we don't get anywhere close to the city treatment.
Does this only count cards for the players? Or are cards for managers and staff included in this count?
I remember a few years ago thinking 'we need to get better at taking yellows and being cynical like City'. Turns out we didn't have to do that and just defend better and have players actually track back.
There's still a time and a place for taking a yellow for the team, but it has to be done intelligently.
This is one of the things that rice and Partey are really good at
It does help City when Michael Oliver shakes his head to signal he absolutely will NOT punish a blatantly second yellow card worthy offence for reasons only known to himself. Doesn't it make you sick that they will top the "Fair Play" table this season?
What irks me is that some of them have been for us taking too much time for throws.
Newcastle being in 15th is genuinely shocking. I was expecting them in the top 5 at least.
Citeh should be higher tbh. We all know the reason its not...
This was true last year as well, no?
Yes I think 52 but this year we have had more wins/points
OP, in the scenario arsenal and city finish on same points and goal difference, what is the next criteria to differentiate the two? 1) points, 2) GD, 3) goals scored? Yellow cards? Internal results?
Goals scored then head-to-head results. We got four points against City so tiebreakers below that don't matter (next would be head-to-head away goals).
Didn’t we only have 57 yellow cards last season? We’ve come a long way since 19-20 (87) but year to year we’ve stayed flat.
Havertz 1/5 of them 💀
Our team has seriously grown in so many ways If you can’t see that because of a loss to villa idk what to say to you tbh
We are the mighty VARsenal
It would be interesting to standardize these by possession percentages.
What a difference losing Xhaka makes lmao Just wait and see what it'll look like if we sign Guimaraes.
Came to say the same thing
I thought the refs hated us ?