Arsenal fans were worried on Thursday morning as they fretted about Alexis Sanchez’s mental health after he appeared to see an alien posing as a footballer at the Emirates in the Champions League.

It wasn’t really an alien. It Carl jenkinson, who was in the side as a replacement for Hector Bellerin. In the same way a bus replacement is not the same as getting the train, Jenks struggled to impress.

While basically sound, the gap between his level and that of Hector was Grand Canyonesque as we looked at in his player focus.

He put in five crosses against PSG and found nobody with any of them (worth noting as we all climb onboard the Jenks bashmobile that Gibbs put in three crosses and found nobody either):

Carl Jenkinson crosses v PSG

His other stats looked like this:

  • Touches 61
  • Passes 41
  • Pass accuracy 90.2% (Mesut Ozil finished with 89.6%, Kieran Gibbs 91.1%)
  • Attacking third passes 8 completed from 12
  • Defensive third passes 7 from 7
  • Middle third 22 from 22
  • Backpasses 2
  • Long passes 0 from 3
  • Short passes 37 from 38
  • Forward passes 6 from 10
  • Backward passes 22 from 22
  • Square passes 9 from 9
  • Throw-ins taken 6 from 6
  • Offside passes 1
  • Long balls 4
  • Accurate long balls 1
  • Through balls 1
  • Accurate through balls 0
  • Interceptions 1
  • Clearances 1
  • Fouls 0
  • Ball recoveries 5 (Ramsey led the way with 12)
  • Tackles 0
  • Interceptions 1
  • Blocks 0
  • Clearances 1 from 1
  • Headed clearances 0
  • Aerial duels 1 from 3
  • Blocked crosses 0
  • Fouls committed 0
  • Fouls suffered 0
  • Take-ons 0 from 2
  • Whoscored.com rating 6.02 (lowest of all players who started from both sides, excluding Alex Iwobi with 5.69, PSG’s keeper, and Grzegorz Krychowiak who got 5.05 – Ox got 6.15 and he only played 10 minutes, Walcott 6.0/11 minutes, Xhaka 6.12/13 minutes)

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