Arsenal v Bayern Munich: a battle of goalscorers

Now the simple fact is that across these ten games Bayern Munich have scored 27 goals, which is obviously 2.7 a game: pretty impressive.   Although we might care to note that Arsenal have scored 3.3 goals a game, which one might say (if one were prone to play with the English language) is extra-impressive.  But of course one would not be so silly.

But the key point here is that the recent 8-1 win over Mainz was not the only time the club has scored 8 this season, since they also beat Darmstadt 8-0 earlier in the campaign.   That Harry Kane putting himself about a bit, I’ll be bound!

Arsenal have not gone to such extremes although the club did knock six past Lens, while in the league matches at home you might recall the four league games between 11 February and 4 March this year in which Arlsenal scored 25 in overcoming West Ham, Burnley, Newcastle United and Sheffield United.

Bayern have twice got up to 17 goals in four matches.

So although their eight-goal romps (I think “romp” is the correct journalistic word for scoring eight, just as “rant” is the preferred journalistic term for Mikel Arteta making a point while a journalistic rage is normally called “an article”,) is a matter of record, they’ve not been doing it all the time.

Anway, we might perhaps be able to call this a bit of a topsy turvey season, and quite what we will get when it comes to the game at Arsenal stadium, one cannot be too sure.

Bayern won their Champions League group and it is always worth publishing the table just to see how Manchester United got on…