It was a familiar story for Arsenal in their defeat to Bolton Wanderers on Sunday afternoon. The nature of Bolton's winning goal – from a set piece, in the final moments – rather sums up Arsenal's frailties this season. No other side have conceded a higher percentage of their goals, 56%, from set pieces in 2010-11.Arsenal also have severe problems when they try to get the ball wide. Robin van Persie is on a great scoring run and his link-up play is excellent, but he is far from an aerial threat – it does not even come naturally to him to get into goalscoring positions when the ball is out wide. The introduction of Marouane Chamakh, wildly out of form this year, did not solve the problems, and Arsenal finished with a cross completion rate of 0%, from 27 attempted crosses.
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