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How Much Did Arsenal Actually Play Together This Season?

This chart maps every minute of every Arsenal player's time on the pitch across the 2025/26 season — Premier League and Champions League, EFL and FA Cup combined. Each row is a match, each bar shows when players were on the pitch, and the green segment marks the window where all your selected players shared the field at the same time.

You can use it two ways. Select a single player to see which games they featured in and how many minutes they logged. Or pick a group - your ideal front three, a midfield partnership, or a full XI — and the chart filters down to only the games where all of them played together, showing exactly how much shared pitch time they actually accumulated. It's a quick way to find out whether the combinations you remember actually happened as often as you think.

My dream XI picks itself: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Rice, Zubimendi; Saka, Ødegaard, Eze; Havertz. Select all eleven and watch most of the season vanish from the chart. We barely got to see this team on the pitch together. And yet - here we are. UCL semifinal(as of May 2). Right in the thick of the title race. Honestly, given how much we've had to shuffle and patch things up, maybe that's the most impressive part of this season. Arteta's been making it work with whatever he's got, and it's been working.

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