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Arsenal 4-1 Reading - March 30, 2013 / Premier League 2012/2013

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Premier League 2012/2013 - Round 31

Emirates Stadium - London - England

March 30, 2013 - 15:00

60 082

4 - 1

Reading

Assist by Santi Cazorla Gervinho

11'

Assist by Gervinho Santi Cazorla

48'

Assist by GervinhoOlivier Giroud

67'

(penalty) Mikel Arteta

78'

69'

Hal Robson-KanuAssist by Jobi McAnuff

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11' - Goal Gervinho11

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48' - Goal Santi Cazorla48

61' - Substitution Pavel Pogrebnyakis substituted by Noel Hunt

67' - Goal Olivier Giroud67

69' - Goal Hal Robson-Kanu

71' - Substitution Nacho Monrealis substituted by Kieran Gibbs71

75' - Substitution Gervinhois substituted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain75

76' - Substitution Olivier Giroudis substituted by Lukas Podolski76

76' - Substitution Jem Karacanis substituted by Hope Akpan

78' - Goal Mikel Arteta78

81' - Substitution Hal Robson-Kanuis substituted by Garath McCleary

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

4 - 1

Reading

Arsenal Reading

Team line-ups

Arsenal

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

12Giroud6776

Olivier Giroud

France

B.date30/09/1986

Age26 years

H1m92

positionCentre forward

19Santi Cazorla48

Santi Cazorla

Spain

B.date13/12/1984

Age28 years

H1m68

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

7Rosicky

Tomas Rosicky

Czech Republic

B.date04/10/1980

Age32 years

H1m79

positionPlaymaker

27Gervinho1175

Gervinho

Ivory Coast

B.date27/05/1987

Age25 years

H1m79

positionLeft Winger

16Ramsey

Aaron Ramsey

Wales

B.date26/12/1990

Age22 years

H1m78

positionBox-to-box midfielder

8Arteta78

Mikel Arteta

Spain

B.date26/03/1982

Age31 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

17Monreal71

Nacho Monreal

Spain

B.date26/02/1986

Age27 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

6Koscielny

Laurent Koscielny

France

B.date10/09/1985

Age27 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

4Mertesacker

Per Mertesacker

Germany

B.date29/09/1984

Age28 years

H1m98

positionRight central defender

3Sagna

Bacary Sagna

France

B.date14/02/1983

Age30 years

H1m76

positionRight full-back

21Fabianski

Lukasz Fabianski

Poland

B.date18/04/1985

Age27 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
21	G	Lukasz Fabianski		27	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Laurent Koscielny		27	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Per Mertesacker		28	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Nacho Monreal	71	27	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Bacary Sagna		30	228	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Mikel Arteta	78	31	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Aaron Ramsey		22	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Tomas Rosicky		32	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Santi Cazorla	48	28	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	M	Gervinho	1175	25	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	F	Olivier Giroud	6776	26	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Reading

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

7Pogrebnyak61

Pavel Pogrebnyak

Russia

B.date08/11/1983

Age29 years

H1m88

positionStriker

11McAnuff

Jobi McAnuff

Jamaica

B.date09/11/1981

Age31 years

H1m81

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

20Guthrie

Danny Guthrie

England

B.date18/04/1987

Age25 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

19Robson-Kanu6981

Hal Robson-Kanu

Wales

B.date21/05/1989

Age23 years

H1m84

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

8Leigertwood

Mikele Leigertwood

Antigua and Barbuda

B.date12/11/1982

Age30 years

H1m88

positionRight central midfielder

4Karacan76

Jem Karacan

Turkey

B.date21/02/1989

Age24 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

3Shorey

Nicky Shorey

England

B.date19/02/1981

Age32 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

6Mariappa

Adrian Mariappa

Jamaica

B.date03/10/1986

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

5Pearce

Alex Pearce

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/11/1988

Age24 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

27Kelly

Stephen Kelly

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/09/1983

Age29 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

41Taylor

Stuart Taylor

England

B.date28/11/1980

Age32 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
41	G	Stuart Taylor		32	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Alex Pearce		24	145	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Stephen Kelly		29	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Adrian Mariappa		26	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Nicky Shorey		32	281	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Jem Karacan	76	24	152	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Mikele Leigertwood		30	104	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Danny Guthrie		25	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Hal Robson-Kanu	6981	23	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Jobi McAnuff		31	164	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Pavel Pogrebnyak	61	29	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
28	D	Kieran Gibbs	71	23	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	75	19	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Lukas Podolski	76	27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
28	M	Hope Akpan	76	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Garath McCleary	81	26	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Noel Hunt	61	30	160	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Aaron Ramsey

Abou Diaby

OUT

Gervinho

Theo Walcott

OUT

Bacary Sagna

Carl Jenkinson

OUT

Tomas Rosicky

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Pavel Pogrebnyak

Noel Hunt

OUT

Danny Guthrie

Garath McCleary

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

946

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

Wenger vs Reading

8 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 30, 2013

Wenger vs Adkins

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 30, 2013

Manager

Age

Match num

Nigel Adkins

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Adkins vs Arsenal

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 30, 2013

Adkins vs Wenger

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 30, 2013

Referee

Christopher Foy

22 victories	3 draws	3 losses	Arsenal28 matches	General total	Reading15 matches	2 victories	4 draws	9 losses
3 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Arsenal4 matches	Season total	Reading3 matches	0 victory	1 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on March 14, 2015					Latest figure on January 04, 2014

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Key figures

Nicky Shorey played his game number 10 vs Arsenal in his professional career

Reading keeps its 21 matches with at least one goal conceded away from home running (since 13/04/2012). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 22/12/1990-23/11/1991 time period (25 matches).

Arsenal keeps its 12 matches with at least one goal scored vs Reading running (since 16/02/1935). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 27 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 5-1 West Ham23/01/2013

DArsenal 2-2 Liverpool30/01/2013

VArsenal 1-0 Stoke City02/02/2013

LArsenal 0-1 Blackburn16/02/2013

LArsenal 1-3 Bayern Munich19/02/2013

VArsenal 2-1 Aston Villa23/02/2013

Overall

LArsenal 0-1 Blackburn16/02/2013

LArsenal 1-3 Bayern Munich19/02/2013

VArsenal 2-1 Aston Villa23/02/2013

LTottenham 2-1 Arsenal03/03/2013

VBayern Munich 0-2 Arsenal13/03/2013

VSwansea 0-2 Arsenal16/03/2013

Current form

Away

VCrawley Town 1-3 Reading05/01/2013

VNewcastle United 1-2 Reading19/01/2013

LStoke City 2-1 Reading09/02/2013

LManchester United 2-1 Reading18/02/2013

LEverton 3-1 Reading02/03/2013

LManchester United 1-0 Reading16/03/2013

Overall

LStoke City 2-1 Reading09/02/2013

LManchester United 2-1 Reading18/02/2013

LReading 0-3 Wigan23/02/2013

LEverton 3-1 Reading02/03/2013

LReading 1-2 Aston Villa09/03/2013

LManchester United 1-0 Reading16/03/2013

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	4	8
Scoring streak	2	5
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	4	6
Winless streak	4	6
Drawless streak	12	7
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	20	8

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

18	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	340
5	FBDB index ranking (National)	19

Results

29	Number of games (Competition total)	30
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
14	Victories (Competition total)	5
8	Victories (Home / Away)	1
8	Draws (Competition total)	8
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
7	Losses (Competition total)	17
3	Losses (Home / Away)	12

Goals

55	Goals scored (Competition total)	35
35	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	57
19	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	28
1.9	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.17
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.8
1.1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.9
1.36	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.87

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	19
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
6	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	10
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	19
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (6 times)

Bookings

29	Yellow cards (Competition total)	38
14	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
3	Red cards (Competition total)	1
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Santi Cazorla	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Adam Le Fondre
Olivier Giroud	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Pavel Pogrebnyak
Mikel Arteta	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Adam Le Fondre
Mikel Arteta	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Lukas Podolski	9 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	6 assists	Jobi McAnuff
Theo Walcott	6 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	Jobi McAnuff
Theo Walcott	9 goals, 8 assists during the last 19 matches	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 9 matches	Adam Le Fondre

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

4 v

0 d

0 l

8 gf

1 ga

Away

7 matches

7 v

0 d

0 l

25 gf

10 ga

Total

11 matches

11 v

0 d

0 l

33 gf

11 ga

Historical head to head

Home

7 matches

0 v

0 d

7 l

10 gf

25 ga

Away

4 matches

0 v

0 d

4 l

1 gf

8 ga

Total

11 matches

0 v

0 d

11 l

11 gf

33 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	October 22, 2006
Home	3 - 0	November 29, 2005

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

December 17, 2012 - Premier League 2012/2013

Reading

2 - 5

Arsenal

October 30, 2012 - League Cup 2012/2013

Reading

5 - 7

Arsenal

April 19, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Arsenal

2 - 0

Reading

November 12, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Reading

1 - 3

Arsenal

March 03, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Arsenal

2 - 1

Reading

Best historical scorers against Reading

Theo Walcott	3 goals	2012 - 2012
Santi Cazorla	3 goals	2012 - 2012
Robin van Persie	2 goals	2005 - 2006
Alexander Hleb	2 goals	2006 - 2007
Gilberto Silva	2 goals	2007 - 2008
Marouane Chamakh	2 goals	2012 - 2012

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/02/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Adam Le Fondre	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Mikele Leigertwood	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Jason Roberts	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Nicky Shorey	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Jimmy Kébé	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Noel Hunt	1 goal	2012 - 2012

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/02/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Reading

Theo Walcott	6 matches	2006 - 2012
Cesc Fàbregas	4 matches	2006 - 2008
Alexander Hleb	4 matches	2006 - 2008
Johan Djourou	4 matches	2005 - 2012
William Gallas	4 matches	2006 - 2008
Robin van Persie	3 matches	2005 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/02/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Nicky Shorey	6 matches	2005 - 2012
Marcus Hahnemann	5 matches	2005 - 2008
Ívar Ingimarsson	5 matches	2005 - 2008
James Harper	5 matches	2005 - 2008
Graeme Murty	4 matches	2005 - 2008
John Oster	4 matches	2005 - 2007