Port Vale 0-2 Arsenal
Key numbers
- Possession 19% – 81%
- Shots 3 (0 on target) – 11 (4)
HT 0:1
Eberechi Eze 8'
Leandro Trossard 86'
Leandro Trossard 86'
Arsenal beat Port Vale 2-0.
Player of the matchWilliam Saliba
Player of the match
William Saliba Dominant
Highest FN Score on the pitch: 8.7 (Dominant)
Game state
Port Vale ahead 0 min · level 8 min · Arsenal ahead 82 min
- Leandro Trossard — off the bench 9 min · 1G 0A
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist.
8'
Eberechi Eze
Goal · assist Myles Lewis-Skelly
+0.2
86'
Leandro Trossard
Goal · assist William Saliba
+0.1
Knockout ties have no league points, so moments are weighed on a win-3/draw-1 scale only.
Pre-match expectation for Port Vale is an estimate: no top-five-league record, so it uses the published starting values.
How FN Score and FN xPts work →Match stats
Port ValeArsenal
19%Possession81%
3Shots11
0Shots on target4
0%Shots on target %36%
2Shots in box7
183Passes789
63%Pass accuracy93%
1Corners6
2Saves0
6Fouls5
0Yellow cards0
2Offsides0
The data provider has no xG (expected goals) for this match.
Compared with usual
Arsenal
6 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Goals | 2 | 2 | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0.33 | |
| Shots | 11 | 12.8 | |
| On target | 4 | 3.8 | |
| Shots faced | 3 | 9.2 | |
| Possession | 81% | 56.2% | |
| Passes | 789 | 469 | |
| Pass accuracy | 93% | 84.5% | |
| Corners | 6 | 5.8 | |
| Fouls | 5 | 11.8 |
Timeline
- 8' Goal Eberechi Eze competition goal #1 assist Myles Lewis-Skelly
- 63' Sub Bukayo Saka → Max Dowman
- 66' Sub Jordan Lawrence-Gabriel → Mitchell Clark
- 66' Sub George Hall → Ben Garrity
- 70' Sub Ruari Paton → Jayden Stockley
- 70' Sub Ronan Curtis → Devante Cole
- 71' Sub Ben White → Gabriel Magalhães
- 71' Sub Mikel Merino → Viktor Gyökeres
- 81' Sub → Funso Ojo
- 81' Sub Gabriel Martinelli → Leandro Trossard
- 81' Sub Eberechi Eze → Declan Rice
- 86' Goal Leandro Trossard competition goal #1 assist William Saliba
Category leaders
- Key passesBen White2
- Duels wonMyles Lewis-Skelly7/7
- Defensive actionsConnor Hall6
- Fouls wonMyles Lewis-Skelly4
Past-season matches are summarised from match data (API-Football) without a written review. FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.