Friday 6 April 2012

Premier League: Possession in Matchweek 31

Matchweek 31 in the Premier League was, as every previous week had been, exciting and thrilling. Teams showed promise to fight back and the likes of Fernando Torres got back on the score sheets.
Well, you might have heard pundits and commentators say this before - "The scoreline does not tell the entire story of the game" - and read in innumerable articles that 'Ball Possession' narrates the untold part of the story. Matchweek 31 portrayed just that.

Exactly half of all games last weekend, 5 out of 10, were won by sides that had lesser ball possession. In another game, Man City drew with Sunderland even though they had seen much more of the ball. Arsenal were the unluckiest of the lot, losing to QPR in the London Derby despite having had more than twice the possession of the newly promoted club.

The following picture sums up the weekend’s possession and scoreline tale.




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