Liverpool 5-1 Arsenal: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has just 13 touches against Reds

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Aubameyang has scored 13 league goals this season

Arsenal had a collective day to forget as they were thrashed 5-1 by Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday but spare a thought for striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

He went into the game as the league's top scorer but had just 13 touches before being substituted in the 71st minute.

To make matters worse, SIX of those touches were from the kick-off.

Don't believe us? Here's his touch map to prove it.

Aubameyang touch map against Liverpool

As the map shows, the Gabon international was only given the ball once in the Liverpool penalty area and more of his touches come in his own penalty area than Liverpool's.

Aubameyang's 13 touches was his lowest total in any game he has started this season and only Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has had fewer touches when playing at least 70 minutes in the Premier League this season - he had 11 touches in 87 minutes for Leicester against Arsenal in October.

Unsurprisingly, Aubameyang also made the fewest passes of any player to have played the majority of the match.

He made just 10 passes although they were all successful so he ended the game as the only player with 100% passing accuracy.

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  • Comment posted by blackdog, at 23:02 29 Dec 2018

    Unfair article not to mention opening up a hys debate. The fella had a bad game against a very good team. Show some restraint BBC.

  • Comment posted by Porkpie, at 23:06 29 Dec 2018

    Its hard to heap the blame on him, the ball has to get to him first. The problem was with arsenal (in particular the midfield) being entirely dismantled by liverpool.

  • Comment posted by m0le, at 23:10 29 Dec 2018

    He has been immense this year but Liverpool defended brilliantly. Hardly worth a piece

  • Comment posted by tohrasup, at 07:16 30 Dec 2018

    Why not have a hys on kane's disgusting delli belli esque belly flop?

    Oh I forgot, he has a medal for services tendered to his country, e.g. stealing other people's goals tap ins and spurious penalties

  • Comment posted by Voice of Reason, at 00:33 30 Dec 2018

    I do t really care if Spurs or Liverpool win it, but for the good of football please not City. Giving a small club lots of oil money does not automatically make the a big club with lots of history. FFP get a grip

  • Comment posted by Jack Martin, at 23:24 29 Dec 2018

    I was at the game and I have to agree with earlier comments: it is unfair to single out one player in what was an all round poor Arsenal performance. Fair play to Liverpool. They were very good and deserved the points.

  • Comment posted by Voice of Reason, at 23:26 29 Dec 2018

    Strikers are generally only as good as the team, and the service provided to them so think this is zing of a headline grabbing harsh comment. He’s had a very successful 12 months and would get in any of the top six sides, and UTD for that matter

  • Comment posted by Captain Armorica, at 23:10 29 Dec 2018

    Why a HYS for this? A venting session for Spursers to offload bile after their balls up earlier?

  • Comment posted by IAMASHBY, at 23:43 29 Dec 2018

    A goal for Ainsley Maitland Niles, a place in Garths team of the week incoming?

  • Comment posted by abdulmismail, at 00:22 30 Dec 2018

    As a Liverpool fan; you have to appreciate that this was one of Liverpool's major plays in the game was to starve off any delivery to him. Remember, Klopp knows how dangerous he is so logically, you'd set up your midfield to strangle the midfield to ensure he doesn't get the possession he needs. Otherwise, you'd know the result.

  • Comment posted by Sheeno, at 01:56 30 Dec 2018

    This is a 200 word piece about how many touches one player had in one match. This is not an article, but a paragraph that has been drawn out as much as conceivably possible.

    I do admire the author's insistence on creating a new paragraph for each and every sentence though - takes me back to padding out homework assignments at school when you didn't have a clue what to write.

  • Comment posted by davedyorks, at 10:04 30 Dec 2018

    i could be wrong but I think Harry Kane got more penalties at Anfield than Liverpool did last season !

  • Comment posted by mando, at 10:38 30 Dec 2018

    "Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has just 13 touches against Reds"

    And your point is? Because as far as I'm aware Arsenal, as a team, were completely outclassed by Liverpool.

    Aubameyang remains a joint top scorer in the PL alongside Salah and Kane.
    Interestingly enough he has fewer shots and better minutes-per-goal ratio than Salah and Kane.

  • Comment posted by Futbolmad, at 03:19 30 Dec 2018

    One bad day will not take away Auba's status as a world class striker. Even the best need service for them to shine.

  • Comment posted by Alun Rees, at 10:28 30 Dec 2018

    My workmate is an Arsenal Supporter and he knows full well that I am a Liverpool Supporter. Despite the obvious banter we have in the office, he was prepared to acknowledge that Liverpool would win the match even before a ball was kicked and he put it down to Arsenals's defense being not good enough. But, BBC what are your doing singling one man out when it was LFC stopping him from playing?

  • Comment posted by paulh, at 01:04 30 Dec 2018

    The Gunners played so badly they made Liverpool look fantastic.
    Having Lacazette as a sub all the time is crazy.

  • Comment posted by Dont Forget The Great Ronnie Peterson, at 12:58 30 Dec 2018

    Spurs fan here.
    I was surprised at Arsenal's performance. Disappointing for you, but Liverpool are in a very good moment right now.
    It's not all so doom & gloom for you, so cheer up.
    You have 2 terrific strikers and a manager who knows how to win.
    You will be in the mix come May.
    I just hope we give you a better game at our place, wherever that might be.
    Happy New Year to you all.

  • Comment posted by SFM, at 09:44 30 Dec 2018

    Have any of the people slagging off the author for picking on one player actually read the article? See first paragraph

    Arsenal had a collective day to forget as they were thrashed 5-1 by Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday but spare a thought for striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

    Quite clearly blames the team and suggests sympathy for PEA, not blaming him.

    Learn to read!

  • Comment posted by ash, at 04:43 30 Dec 2018

    This article is just highlighting how isolated a great striker like aubamayang was in that game.... And that the arsenal team couldn't provide for him... Not all the other rubbish some people are going on about !!

  • Comment posted by pat, at 23:24 29 Dec 2018

    very harsh to single him out. he is up there with the best in the league, the tactics arsenal played was always going to be a struggle for him. YNWA X

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