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Originally Posted by SonicBebs
Motd showed palace had 13% possession against arsenal.
A mate who watched it on sky said they quoted 39%.
Motd singled out Chamaq as being poor, yet a neutral stated he won everything in the air and played well
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Didn't see MotD but watched the game on Sky. Chamakh was excellent and, while Arsenal were clearly the better team, Palace defended really well overall (the only team in the Prem so far to contain Ozil) and even had some good chances on the counterattack. Jedinak looked class. They just couldn't hold on in the later stages.
There was a stat early in the game that Palace had just 10 passes to Arsenal's 110 but a team in Palace's position against the in form team in the league
had to park the bus, which they did ... very well. Celtic beat Barcelona with the same strategy and 13% possession. Chelsea won the CL on not much higher.
The whole mania for possession stats (which vary massively depending on how they're judged) is one of the most irrelevant in football. I don't think people were even aware of them before Barcelona arrived, and stuff like Championship Manager.