Forget Eddie Nketiah, this Arsenal man was real star against Man United - and heat map proves it AFC
AdvertisementThe left-back, if you can pigeon-hole him like that, topped the charts for almost every meaningful statistic.did, comfortably leading the way for involvement in his team’s build-up, with most attacks going through him.He was second to William Saliba for most successful passes, but crucially, Zinchenko completed the most passes in the opposition half.
But perhaps most impressively, the 26-year-old had more touches than any player on the pitch, and his heat map is quite surreal.
Reacting to his performance, ex-Arsenal striker Kevin Campbell told talkSPORT: “Not only is he a left-back, if you see his heat map, he goes into midfield, he gets the other side of [Thomas] Partey in midfield.And it appears the Ukraine star is even taking extra responsibility off the pitch. After the game, Zinchenko said: “To be honest, when I had just arrived, the quality I saw… obviously I knew the Arsenal team, I knew all of them before, but still I realised on the pitch we have everything to achieve big things.
“I started to speak in the dressing room, saying: ‘Guys, forget top three or whatever, we need to think about the title.’ Some of them were laughing but no one is laughing now and all of us are dreaming.“But still there’s a lot of games to play and now you can see [Manchester] United is back. City, as always, is there.Besides Zinchenko’s obvious quality, die-hard Arsenal fan Piers Morgan pointed towards his comments as an example of the winner’s mentality the Gunners needed.
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