Gunners can profit from Fulham's desperate times

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal welcome Scott Parker’s relegation battling Fulham to the Emirates Stadium this Sunday lunchtime. Since the turn of the year, and the arrival of Martin Odegaard on loan from Real Madrid, there has been a significant upturn in performance from the Gunners. The success of their season overwhelmingly rides on their fortunes in the Europa League and in that excursion, they travel to the Czech Republic on Thursday evening to play out the second leg of their quarter final tie against Slavia Prague - the aggregate score is currently 1-1. Newcastle United’s victory at Turfmoor yesterday exacerbated the perilous situation the Cottagers find themselves in, 6 points from safety with as many matches to go.

Process

Arsenal have the depth in their squad to cope comfortably with the league and cup balancing act. It is about time Fulham go for broke, it is likely they will need to win 4 of their last 6 to have any shot at survival.

It has been a very difficult season of transition for the North Londoners with Arteta struggling to find his best 11. They have found it particularly challenging in offensive areas, leading to them ranking 11th for expected goals for. For a side that boasts, the attacking talents in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nicolas Pepe and Alexandre Lacazette, sitting in mid table in terms of attacking process is shockingly below par. The clear out of dead wood in the form of Sokratis Papastathopoulo, Shkodran Mustafi and Sead Kolasnac has made way for dedicated and hard-working players like Kieran Tierney and Rob Holding, providing hope of the defensive solidarity the club was known for at the beginning of this century. They sit in 6th place for both goals against and expected goals against, with a youthful backline there is the foundations to compete for the top four next season.

As for Fulham, Parker’s reluctance to select Alecsander Mitrovic looks to have cost them dearly as their inexperienced have passed up numerous goal scoring opportunities throughout the campaign. Seeing them become the second lowest scoring team, despite ranking 13th for expected goals for, an enormous under-performance of 14.9 expected goals.

Goals?

Both sides have the ability to keep things tight, but with the severity of Fulham’s condition this one could become very open.

• Arsenal have scored in three of 10
• Arsenal have conceded in nine of 10
• Arsenal have seen both teams score in seven of 10
• Arsenal have seen over 2.5 goals in seven of 10
• Fulham have scored in six of 10
• Fulham have conceded in six of 10
• Fulham have seen both teams score in three of 10
• Fulham have seen over 2.5 goals in three of 10

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