Fleetwood Town 1-1 Arsenal: three shots, one goal, five saves
AI-written review based on match data · How we make it
Key numbers
- xG 2.29 v 0.34: the chances were Arsenal's
- Shots 26 v 3, yet the score was 1-1
- Lynch: five saves, one goal conceded
Fleetwood lead, Arsenal level, nothing more
Fleetwood Town and Arsenal finished 1-1 in this EFL Cup fixture. A. Loupalo-Bi put the hosts ahead in the 21st minute from a H. Neal assist, and Viktor Gyökeres levelled in the 50th minute. The scoreline understates how heavily the chances favoured the visitors, with most of the match played at level pegging.
Arsenal's 2.29 xG, and only one goal
Arsenal's xG of 2.29 was their highest this season, but only Viktor Gyökeres found the net. Kai Havertz summed it up: seven shots, one on target. Many of the visitors' efforts were blocked or off target, which points to volume rather than precision. Fleetwood, meanwhile, outperformed their own xG by 0.66.
Lynch and Batty keep Fleetwood in it
Jay Lynch made five saves, and Jake Thomas Batty had more defensive actions than any other player, 12 in all. Arsenal changed nine starters for the fixture, yet the shots they faced were their fewest of the season, so the rotated back line was seldom tested.
An equaliser that reset the match
Gyökeres's equaliser in the 50th minute was worth +0.8 FN xPts to Arsenal, while Fleetwood's FN xPts fell by 0.8, the largest combined change of the match. Arsenal had brought on Martin Ødegaard and Ben White at the interval. Late on, Max Dowman was sent off, but the scoreline did not move.
FN MOM
Highest FN Score · our own pick by a published formula, not the official Player of the Match
Piero Hincapié 7.9Strong
He won 11 of 14 duels and made three key passes from defence.
As FN MOM, Hincapié earned most of his credit from defending: he won 11 of 14 duels and drew three fouls. He also completed 81 of 91 passes, the most of any player in the match, and made three key passes. That blend of winning the ball, moving it and creating chances kept Arsenal's play flowing while they were chasing the game.
Game state
1-01-1
Fleetwood Town ahead 29 min · level 61 min · Arsenal ahead 0 min
- Arsenal: Red card 85' → ~5 min a player down
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. The value next to a team code is what the same moment did to the other side's expected points; the decisive moment is the one with the largest combined change for both teams.
21'
A. Loupalo-Bi
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist H. Neal +0.1 · ARS −0.5
+0.4
50'
Viktor Gyökeres
Goal · FLE −0.8
+0.8
85'
Max Dowman
Red card · FLE +0.1
−0.2
Knockout ties have no league points, so moments are weighed on a win-3/draw-1 scale only.
Pre-match expectation for Fleetwood Town is an estimate: no top-five-league record, so it uses the published starting values.
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Match stats
Fleetwood TownArsenal
0.34Expected goals (xG)2.29
Compared with usual
Arsenal
12 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 1 | 1.9 | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0.75 | |
| xG | 2.29 | 1.6 | high |
| xG against | 0.34 | 0.91 | |
| Shots | 26 | 14.6 | |
| On target | 7 | 5.2 | |
| Shots faced | 3 | 9.7 | low |
| xG per shot | 0.09 | 0.13 | |
| Possession | 53% | 59.9% | low |
| Passes | 642 | 532.6 | high |
| Corners | 5 | 5.5 | |
| Fouls | 5 | 10.4 | low |
Timeline
- 21'
Goal
A. Loupalo-Bi assist H. Neal
- 45'
Sub
Jurriën Timber → Ben White
- 45'
Sub
Marli Salmon → Martin Ødegaard
- 50'
Goal
Viktor Gyökeres competition goal #1
- 54'
Yellow
C. McLean
- 66'
Sub
C. McLean → A. Murphy
- 66'
Sub
Ched Evans → R. Coughlan
- 66'
Sub
Ceadach O'Neill → Eberechi Eze
- 74'
Sub
M. Helm → Andy Cannon
- 74'
Yellow
Jake Thomas Batty
- 82'
Sub
A. Loupalo-Bi → W. Davies
- 82'
Sub
Myles Lewis-Skelly → Ezri Konsa
- 82'
Sub
Martín Zubimendi → Bruno Guimarães
- 85'
Red
Max Dowman
- 86'
Yellow
Andy Cannon
Category leaders
- Key passesMartin Ødegaard3
- Duels wonPiero Hincapié11/14
- DribblesA. Loupalo-Bi5/6
- Defensive actionsJake Thomas Batty12
- ShotsKai Havertz7 (on target 1)
- Fouls wonCeadach O'Neill4
#Fleetwood Town#Arsenal#EFL Cup#Piero Hincapié#Viktor Gyökeres#Jay Lynch
This review was written by AI from match data (API-Football). FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.