12 – Age I revert to when writing headlines about clubs with a name like BATE

100 – Goals for Olivier Giroud

153 – Minutes per goal average for Giroud

38 – Assists for Giroud

111 – Minutes per goal scored/assisted average for Giroud

618 – Shots taken by Giroud

16 – Percent finishing rate (100/618) for Giroud over his Arsenal career

16 – Percent finishing rate for top strikers¹

4 – Goals outside the box

96 – Inside the box

6 – Penalties

59 – Left footed

10 – Right footed

31 – Headers

70 – Goals in the Premier League

14 – Goals in the FA Cup

12 – Champions League goals

2 – League Cup goals

1 – Europa League goal

99 – Goals Giroud has scored in actual competitive matches

1 – Goal people are counting from the Charity Shield friendly toward Giroud’s 100 goals tally

1 – Goals I’d prefer we wait for (it will happen) before we count him as having scored 100, but I’m not writing this bit again when Giroud scores his next goal (probably this weekend)

10 – Rating whoscored.com gave Theo Walcott (it was a 10, I just refreshed and they downgraded him to 9.77)

7 – Walcott led Arsenal both teams with 7 shots (Ivanic also had 7 shots)

4 – Big Chances taken by Walcott

2 – Big chances scored by Walcott

1 – Big chance by Walcott which was saved

1 – Big chance by Walcott which hit the woodwork (missed)

3 – Successful dribbles by Walcott (2nd on the team behind Willock, Walcott was 3/4 dribbling)

4 – Key passes by Walcott (led all players)

3 – Key passes from set plays by Walcott (corners)

0 – Big Chances created by Walcott

50 – Passes attempted by Walcott

16 – Passes per game career average by Walcott

94 – Touches by Elneny (led all players)

94 – Percent pass completion rate by Elneny

86 – Passes by Elneny

10 – Accurate long passes by Elneny (of 11 attempted, this is excellent)

0 – Key passes by Elneny

0 – Through balls by Elneny

0 – Tackles by Elneny

0 – Aerials won by Elneny

0 – Shots by Elneny

1 – Total turnovers by Elneny (bad touch, this is excellent)

3 – Interceptions by Elneny (tied for the most on Arsenal with Willock and AMN)

71 – Touches by Jack Wilshere

92 – Percent passing by Wilshere

2 – Key passes by Wilshere

3 – Successful dribbles by Wilshere

4 – Unsuccessful dribbles by Wilshere

5 – Number of times Wilshere was dispossessed

1 – Successful through ball by Wilshere (you remember it? 24th minute, to… Willock or Ainsley? Anyway, no one else had a through ball)

1 – Tackle by Jack

0 – Interceptions by Jack

92 – Percent passing by Joe Willock

3 – Accurate long balls (of three attempted)

5 – Tackles by Willock (led all players)

3 – Interceptions by Willock (led Arsenal, see above)

1 – Measly foul by Willock

4 – Dribbles by Willock (of 4 attempted, led all players

5 – Turnovers by Willock

18 – Turnovers by the Arsenal midfield (I’m counting AMN, Nelson, Wilshere, Elneny, and Willock)

15 – Turnovers by Willock, Nelson, and Wilshere

3 – Turnovers by AMN (2) and Elneny (1)

59 – Accurate passes by Mustafi

11 – Misplaced passes by Mustafi

6 – Misplaced long balls by Mustafi (he was 57% long passing, 8/14)

0 – Tackles by Mustafi

0 – Interceptions by Mustafi

0 – Aerial duels won by Mustafi

0 – Aerial duels challenged by Mustafi

3.86 – 7amxG for Arsenal

2.37 – 7amxG against Arsenal (for BATE)

6 – Big chances created by Arsenal

4 – Big chances scored by Arsenal (including penalty, 1 saved, 1 missed)

10 – Shots in prime by Arsenal (of 16 shots taken)

7 – Shots on goal by Arsenal (3 saved)

3 – Big chances created by BATE

2 – Big chances scored by BATE (1 saved)

4 – Shots in prime by BATE

7 – Shots on goal by BATE

14 – Total shots on goal by both teams

0 – Number of those 14 shots on goal that were taken from outside the 18 yard box

0 – Number of times Aaron Ramsey waved his arms demanding his teammates pass him the ball in this game

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Sources: ESPN.com for Giroud’s shots and goals data; Orbinho on twitter for Giroud’s body parts scored data; Whoscored.com for the game data; my database for expected goals

¹In 2012 I compared Messi, Suarez, Ronaldo, Higuain, van Persie, Falcao, Cavani, Bale, Giroud, Walcott, Cazorla, Benteke, Gervinho, Rooney, and RvP from 2011, and Suarez from 2011. All of their goals divided by all of their shots from that season (League play only) = 16% finishing. All players score at a 10% rate, strikers score at a higher rate. Is it 16%? I don’t know. I have half a mind to check my data again some time but not today. Internationals? Ok, I’ll do it then. But for now, my initial reaction is that Giroud scoring at a 16% rate is very good. At least, better than I thought he would. I may also take a look at the minutes per goals scored/assisted (because that will be easy) in that same article. My guess is that Giroud also comes out favorably.

And one more thing about Giroud’s finishing. By season he has finished 12%, 16%, 17%. 17%, 27%!, and this season back to 10% (it’s early, he will probably bring that number up).