As we have talked about in the past, red cards radically alter the stats in games. The team with the red card usually defends more, passes a lot less, and turns into a tackling, clearing, saving, intercepting team. While the team without the red card basically dominates all the positive stats. That happened today, but only in one category: Tottenham took 26 shots to Arsenal's 10. Despite the disparity in shooting stats both teams shared possession of the football in almost every phase of play: And just to show how unusual that box score is, here is an almost identical match between two top four teams, one team gets a stupid red card, and the team with the man advantage is chasing the game....
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