Stats and analysis for all things Arsenal from Adam Rae Voge and Scott Willis. Going deep into match analysis, player scouting, transfer business, rumors, squad-building, and general transfer coverage.
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by Scott Willis and Adam Rae Voge

Stats and analysis for all things Arsenal from Adam Rae Voge and Scott Willis. Going deep into match analysis, player scouting, transfer business, rumors, squad-building, and general transfer coverage. www.cannonstats.com
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June 4, 2026
Scott and Adam close the book on the Premier League season by grading every one of their preseason over/under predictions, then hand out a data-driven team of the season. The format is simple: 20 teams, bottom to top, against the points totals from the preseason betting markets. The headline result is that both hosts finished ahead of the coin flip, Adam at 13 of 20 and Scott at 12, which feels respectable until you sit with the ones that got away. With this we will start to turn our attention away from 2025/26 and into the summer transfer season. Over/Under on the Premier League Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 31, 2026
Scott and Adam process Arsenal's penalty shootout defeat to PSG in the Champions League Final, a loss that stings without feeling like an indictment of the performance. The episode opens 24 hours on, with both hosts landing somewhere closer to proud than devastated. Adam keeps coming back to Gabriel, who skied the decisive penalty and deserved that ending less than almost anyone, and to the sense that a shootout loss tells you very little about a team. Scott frames it against the alternative: this was not Inter getting blown out in last year's final. Arsenal were in this one. It played out almost exactly as he predicted, a tight game decided by a handful of moments, right on the knife edge, and this time the edge fell PSG's way. The match breakdown is the heart of the episode, and both hosts land on the same read. Arsenal made a conscious choice to cede possession, sit in a medium-low block, and use PSG's strengths against them. It worked. Scott notes that outside the penalty, PSG managed only four chances above ten percent xG, and through 90 minutes the non-penalty xG was roughly 0.8 to 0.6 in Arsenal's favor, with the two biggest chances of the game both falling to Havertz. The argument both hosts make is that the 72-28 possession split and lopsided shot count are not evidence of a problem, they are evidence of a plan. PSG had no central access, no zone 14 touches, and visibly ran out of ideas against a team built to deny exactly that. As Adam puts it, there is a difference between not threatening because you cannot and not threatening because you are not trying to, and that distinction is the whole game. Doing this to one of the two or three best attacks in the world is an accomplishment, not a failure. From there the conversation turns to the officiating, which both hosts felt was unusually prominent. The referee twice blew his whistle before Arsenal could take a corner, a pointed and demonstrative call you almost never see outside a blowout, and the run of ticky-tack fouls and Saka's yellow consistently punished whichever side was out of possession, which by design was Arsenal. On the two major decisions, they agree the Mosquera penalty was correct if soft, and that the Madueke no-call on Nuno Mendes in extra time was a far bigger miss. Scott makes the point he keeps returning to: a no-call is a call, it shaped the game in PSG's favor just as surely as a whistle would have shaped it in Arsenal's, and being afraid to make the call is the real failing. The substitutions get a full airing. The Timber-for-Mosquera change at the hour was the easy one to back. Bringing Odegaard off for Gyokeres made sense for transitional speed and tired legs, but Adam thinks pulling that much technical quality out of midfield hurt Arsenal's ability to build, a pattern they have seen before this season. The bigger sticking point is Saka. Both hosts understand the fitness logic given his calf, but Saka is the moments player, the one you want available for the four chances a game like this offers and for the shootout itself. The counterpoint is that Enrique pulled Dembele, Kvaratskhelia and Vitinha too, so both teams reached penalties without their best takers. On the shootout, the hosts dig into the margins, from Safonov reading the scouting report to sit middle for Rice, to Eze's hesitation-filled, twisted run-up that produced a poor strike, to the general debate over the stutter-step approach and whether it is worth the loss of balance unless you take penalties constantly like Lewandowski or Jorginho. PSG won both coin tosses, took the shootout at their own end, and chose to go second. Arsenal missed two. They close on the long view. It is almost 20 years to the day since the 2006 final loss, and the parallels are there, but the key difference is that 2006 marked the end of a chapter while this team is squarely in its prime. Over the next three to five years, this is a side that should be among the best in Europe with more cracks at the trophy to come. Lewis-Skelly, not yet 20, and a 24-year-old Saka anchor a group with time on its side. PSG will likely be back too, and neither host would mind another go at them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 25, 2026
Scott and Adam soak in Arsenal's Premier League title and turn their attention to the Champions League Final against PSG. The episode opens with both hosts reflecting on the trophy lift and the emotional weight of finally getting over the line. After years of near-misses, eighth-place finishes, and a fan base conditioned to expect heartbreak, this one hits different. Scott traces his own 15-season journey as an Arsenal supporter and the stretch where a title felt unrealistic given the financial gap with Manchester City. Adam picks up the thread from his own entry point during the Emery transition, walking through the slow build under Arteta from top-four hopefuls to genuine contenders to champions. The conversation zeroes in on what defined this season. Scott highlights a remarkable consistency stat: Arsenal were the only team in the league to never be outperformed by more than one expected goal in any single match, while doing it to opponents 20 times. Both hosts push back on the narratives that followed Arsenal all year, from questions about Jorginho's quality to skepticism about the team's attacking output and Arteta's in-game management. The verdict: this was a team that won ugly when it had to and never stopped believing, even through the late wobble against Bournemouth and City. The second half pivots to the Champions League Final against PSG. Scott and Adam break down last season's semifinal, where Donnarumma's saves and a couple of fortunate PSG finishes proved the difference. They identify PSG's pressing intensity and high turnover creation as the primary threat, but also point to vulnerabilities when Hakimi and Nuno Mendes push high and leave space behind. The lineup discussion runs through every position: Calafiori gets the nod at left back for his ability to create moments, Mosquera slots in at right back with Timber's fitness uncertain, and the midfield debate between Lewis-Skelly, Eze, and Zubimendi alongside Rice and Odegaard takes up the most real estate. Trossard earns the left wing start on big-game pedigree. Both hosts predict a tight, low-scoring affair, with Scott floating a nervy 1-0 or a 1-1 that goes to extra time, and Adam going 2-1 Arsenal. The dream ending: a set-piece goal from a defender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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