Arsenal: Crazy Yaya Sanogo Hat Trick Stat Will Make Heads Spin

Arsenal’s jester, for lack of a better word, Yaya Sanogo is not known for his goal scoring, but this crazy stat is impossible to fathom.

Does the title sound click-baity? That’s okay, because you are about to get a ticket to a stat you don’t want to miss, and it involves Arsenal’s tragic hero, Yaya Sanogo.

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Arsene Wenger signed the young Frenchman as the pre-appointed successor to Olivier Giroud and it could not have gone more wrong. Tossed in the first team in 2013/14, he failed to score a single goal. But it would take more than that to get Wenger to give up on him.

Coming out of the gates in 2014/15, Sanogo bagged four against Benfica in the preseason and proceeded to score in two more games, one goal in each.

And then the loans started. First he was sent to Ajax, where he was brutally deemed to have “no qualities.” That then gave way to the hopes of a miracle cure at Charlton Athletic, where he scored a hat trick and promptly disappeared.

Cue this year. With the U23 side, he has scored a hat trick and scored one other.

If you want to go back to 2012/13, in his final year with Auxerre, the trend continues. Two games with one goal each, one game with a hat trick, and one game with four.

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Have you noticed a trend here? If you add up all of Sanogo’s hat tricks (or four goal games), you get five games. If you add up all the games where he only scored one goal, you get… five.

That means that Yaya Sanogo, going back to 2012, is just as likely to score as he is to bag a hat trick. Which is probably the stupidest stat I have ever heard in my entire life.

This Frenchman is absolutely confounding. He bamboozled Arsene Wenger, he was laughed out of the Netherlands and now he is back where he should have started in the first place.

But through it all, he has this borderline unbelievable stat of producing hat tricks just as often as he produces a single goal.

Sanogo’s contract is up this summer and it would be incredibly surprising to see him get an extension. Especially with how much other drama is going to be going on around it. But there will be a team out there that scoops up the hat trick hero and gives him another chance at success.

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And he will probably keep this insane stat line going with them.