Alexis Sanchez’s performance against Bournemouth was rightly hailed across the Arsenal world as he grabbed two goals and generally ran around like a loon.

I thought I’d have a look at his heatmap to see just how much of the pitch he was covering and, you won’t be surprised at all to learn it was almost all of it.

The only area he doesn’t venture? His own penalty box.

Alexis Sanchez heatmap v Bournemouth

Alexis finished the game with the following stats:

  • Goals 2
  • 74 touches
  • 47 passes, 34 completed
  • 72.3% pass accuracy
  • 23/34 attacking third passes
  • 2/2 defensive third passes
  • 9/11 middle third passes
  • 3/4 long passes
  • 31/43 shirt passes
  • 15/24 forward passes
  • 15/15 backward passes
  • 4/8 square passes
  • 2/3 takeons
  • 2 crosses
  • 4 shots (all with his right foot)
  • 2 shots on target
  • 1 woodwork strike
  • 5 key passes
  • 5 chances created (4 from open play, 1 from set piece)
  • 2 dribbles
  • 2 tackles
  • 6 ball recoveries
  • 2/5 tackles
  • 1/2 aerial duels

Whoscored rating 8.84 (MotM)