Agreed. They were sporadically a very good partnership, like in the screenshot posted above, that’s fair to say imo.
However there are also too many variables that are completely unaccounted for in that graphic, what teams we played, whether other key players were available, and so on.
That was a stat in 2 years time. For that big a sample size, all other variables even out I believe.
Per-Kos were a class partnership and offended let down by other players around them and eventually the partnership faded due to injuries or old age.
It be a shame if Koscielny’s days at Arsenal are over from this terrible injury. It seems like he didn’t have a particularly great season last year (although let’s be honest, no one did lol), but whenever he moves on, or retires soon, I’ll always think of him fondly and stuck around when things got really bad during that period without a trophy. Sure he was part of that horrible mix up at the back when we lost to Birmingham in the cup. But he really redeemed himself after that.
Not only was he one of the important goal scorers in the Cup Final of 2014, but two or three occasions he scored the decisive winner on the final day of League campaigns against West Brom and Newcastle securing Champions League Football the following seasons.
Part of me kinda wants to keep him for two more years, so he reaches a decade at the club, but at the same time, we can’t really hang onto players who fitness wise are struggling at this part of their career unfortunately. Arsenal are somewhat damned if we do, damned it we don’t use him when he’s back, as the defense is an absolute mess right now anyways.
“He started thinking about a possible departure from Arsenal at the same time as Arsène Wenger. It was the right moment, the final moment to leave with the arrival of the new manager.
“We were open to different options, China as much as France.“