Nil, nil, seven, one. Scoring seven is always an anomaly but still more of one amid the wreckage of Arsenal’s title challenge, ended by impotence, amid the oddity of their last four games. They averaged a goal every 13 minutes in Eindhoven on Tuesday. They have one in their last 270 minutes against English opposition.
It highlighted one of the oddities of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal. They can run riot and have scored at least five goals in six different games this season, two of them away in Europe, one against the champions of England. But there have become too many times when the goals don’t flow: three blanks in their last six games, nine this season. Liverpool have scored at least two goals in 19 consecutive home games. Home and away, Arsenal have scored under two in 19 matches this season.
