Studs and Duds This is a match better quickly forgotten than raked over the coals. Everyone looked rather jaded, except Flamini who ran the most of all players with 13474m. Giroud had 9 turnovers, a number I can’t remember seeing a player post in a single game. To put that in context, Flamini has 9 turnovers in 15 appearances this season and while Giroud was the focal point of the Arsenal attack and just about the only outlet, that’s still a shockingly high number. All told, Giroud was dispossessed 4 times, caught offside 3 times, and had the 9 turnovers to go with 2 shots and 0 key passes or successful dribbles. The game was killed when Arteta was sent off so, it’s no surprise that we don’t see a bunch of spectacular numbers. That referee, Viktor Kassai, has refereed two previous Arsenal matches, Braga and AC Milan. In those three games, Arsenal have a combined 0 goals for and 8 goals against but what’s weirder is that I remembered his face as a referee who I thought lost games in the second half. Sure enough looking back, he’s given 4 cards in the first half of those games and 15 in each of the second halfs. I’m not sure if that’s unusually high or not but it was strange how Napoli got away with so many fouls and high kicks in the first half and then Kassai decided to clamp down on the game in the second.