Ranking Arsenal's Attacking Options on Their Goalscoring Threat

Arsenal’s attacking options have been the subject of significant scrutiny in recent weeks. Of the Gunners’ meagre three Premier League goals, two have been scored inadvertently by opposition defenders. If Arsenal’s title challenge is to spark into life, their productivity in the final third must improve significantly.

In these piece, we analyse the current set of forwards at Arsene Wenger’s disposal and rank them in terms of the attacking threat they pose the opposition. That’s not a purely statistical assessment based on the number of goals they score, although that is obviously a factor. It’s also an appraisal of the trouble they give defences beyond simply sticking the ball in the…