Properly, the positives from final night time’s sport had been that Arsenal picked up some extent away from house of their Champions League opener and maintained a clear sheet within the course of.

The unfavorable, nonetheless, was the sport itself, as Mikel Arteta’s facet and Atalanta performed out what would possibly simply have been probably the most mind-numbingly boring sport of the season to this point, with David Raya’s double save the one saving grace.

Now, a big a part of why it was so uninteresting was the unimaginable defending from the North Londoners, and on that entrance, there could be no complaints, however in different areas of the pitch, there have been some huge underperformers, together with one who took fewer touches than Raya and was simply as unhealthy as Thomas Partey.

Partey’s sport in numbers

After beginning within the North London Derby on Sunday and placing in what can solely be described as an ample efficiency, Partey was tasked with beginning final night time’s conflict alongside Declan Rice and Kai Havertz.

Now, a match away to the Europa League champions and Coppa Italia runners-up from final season is not any small activity.

Nonetheless, even with that caveat, the Ghanaian seemed completely off the tempo and struggled to have a gradual impression on the match, and when he did do one thing impactful, he gave away a penalty, for which Raya bailed him out.

It’d sound harsh, however it’s an opinion shared by GOAL’s Tom Manston, who gave him only a 5/10 at full-time, writing that the skilled worldwide was ‘overrun at occasions’ and ‘clumsy.’

This appraisal of the 31-year-old’s efficiency is backed up by his statistics, as in his 58 minutes of motion, he racked up a mixed anticipated objective and assists determine of simply 0.09, took simply 39 touches, maintained a passing accuracy of solely 79%, did not play any key passes, missed one huge probability misplaced three of 5 duels, misplaced the ball eight occasions, made one sort out, was dribbled previous as soon as and gave away the penalty.

In all, it was a reasonably horrible displaying from Partey, and as he changed him within the second half, we would not be shocked to see Jorginho begin forward of him on the weekend. But, one among his teammates was not less than equally poor on the night time.

Gabriel Jesus’ sport in numbers

Sure, sadly for the Brazilian ahead, it was Gabriel Jesus who was one of many different notably poor performers final night time.

The previous Manchester Metropolis ace made his first begin this season in Bergamo, probably seeking to make a press release forward of the top-of-the-table conflict on the weekend, and whereas he did, it most likely wasn’t the one he hoped to make.

Possibilities had been laborious to return by for the 27-year-old, however he did not assist the state of affairs both by trying uncomfortable on the ball, taking heavy touches and failing to lock his personal goalscoring probabilities.

Unsurprisingly, Manston wasn’t impressed with the São Paulo-born ace both, describing him as ‘rusty’ and giving him a 3/10 on the night time, and whereas that sounds harsh, it is an opinion as soon as once more backed up by the ahead’s statistics.

For instance, in his 58 minutes on the pitch, he did not even register an anticipated objectives quantity as he did not take a single shot, his anticipated assists determine was simply 0.09, he failed in his solely dribble try, took simply 32 touches – 14 fewer than Raya – misplaced 5 of seven duels and was offside 3 times.

In the end, whereas many of the midfield and ahead line put in underwhelming performances final night time, Partey and Jesus had been significantly disappointing and, as such, needs to be nowhere close to the beginning lineup on Sunday.