Gundogan played 33 times in the last campaign, completing his recovery from a serious back injury which had restricted him to just three
appearances the season before.
After making just 11 appearances in the second half of the 16/17 season, Mowatt would make just one
appearance this season before moving on loan to League One side Oxford United under former assistant manager Pep Clotet.
Between them, Ozbiliz and Popov scored 18 goals, more than making up for the departure of Lacina Traore, who led Kuban with 18 goals in 38
appearances the season before.
Not exact matches
Before his move to Chelsea, the winger managed four goals and four assists in 17 Sere A
appearances last
season.
However, he made just one
appearance in the 2014/15 campaign,
before featuring in 20 games in all competitions last
season as he struggled to steer clear of injuries.
Before we get too ahead of ourselves, it's important to note, one of these Teams will make the rare Rookie
season Elite8
appearance.
Barnett, who has been with the Carrow Road outfit since 2011 but found chances to impress few and far between last
season, making just 11
appearances for Chris Hughton's men
before joining Cardiff on loan for much of the campaign.
He scored 9 goals in 20
appearances in the first half of the
season before his January departure.
The veteran midfielder was snubbed by Jose Mourinho at the start of the
season and made rare
appearances for the Red Devils
before leaving for MLS earlier this year.
What about the multitude of
seasons before with limited
appearances?
Last
season, Smith, a 6» 2», 190 - pound righthanded relief ace, went until June 18 — 22
appearances totaling 27 ⅖ innings —
before he allowed his first run, earned or otherwise.
Hector Bellerin has been fortunate to have made so many first - team
appearances this
season, though none of us can take anything away from the promise he showed even
before the ongoing
season began.
Zeegelaar first broke into the Ajax side back in 2009, but could only manage four
appearances before being sent to Dutch minnows Execlsior on loan for a
season.
The 24 - year - old scored five times in his first 13 Premier League
appearances,
before suffering an injury that ruled him out for the remainder of the
season.
He's 29 years old, and in 5 years playing in the top 2 divisions has had one stand out
season (last
season), the
season before that he scored 5 (FIVE) goals in 36 games in all
appearances.
He ultimately made just 13
appearances for the Pensioners in the Premier League, scoring twice,
before moving permanently to the Giallorossi earlier this
season.
The latest recipient of the club's rotten fortune, Tomas Rosicky, has been there
before a few times but this time his latest bad news on the injury front could mean that his first
appearance of the
season as a sub in the disappointing defeat to Chelsea, could also be his final Arsenal
appearance of the
season.
The
season Before, he finished the
season with 17 league goals in 34
appearances, 5 CL goals in 11 matches, along with 9 league assists and 5 CL assists, thats a massive 36 goals he either scored or created that year.
The Italian forward endured a nightmare spell at Anfield, scoring just four times in 28
appearances for the club
before being shipped out on loan to AC Milan last
season.
He made 67
appearances for them, all but three in relief,
before L.A. traded him to the Expos after the 1993
season for second baseman Delino DeShields.
He went on to make 41 Ligue 2
appearances for Metz over two
seasons,
before signing for Belgian side Racing Genk for # 975k.
The Arsenal injury curse strikes again and what we were initially told was a fairly minor ankle problem ended up needing an operation to fix it, and now we have the usual setback to his recovery and the upshot of it all is that our Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla will not be adding, during the current
season at least, to the eight Premier League
appearances he made
before being subbed off during the Champions League hammering of Ludogorets Razgrad.
Last
season Diaby made just one senior
appearance for the 2015 FA Cup winners as he was named in manager Arsene Wenger's starting XI for the Capital One Cup tie against Southampton at the Emirates Stadium and lasted for just over an hour
before being replaced by Santi Cazorla.
Some Arsenal fans will remember when the fleet footed forward was like this
before when he was the club's top scorer in the 2012 - 13
season with 21 goals from 31 starts and 12 sub
appearances in all competitions, but that was the only really productive
season we have seen from him.
Even Jack Wilshire has proved this
season that he can bring something to the team if he stays fit, having made 27
appearances on loan at Bournemouth
before suffering a leg break.
His last two
seasons have been spent out on disappointing loans — managing just six substitute
appearances in the Bundesliga for Dortmund,
before failing to score in 25 Premier League matches for relegated Sunderland.
The tournament drought
before this
season's
appearance was 33 years.
The 25 - year - old goal machine, who has netted 35 times in 41 club
appearances so far this
season, should be confirmed as a Chelsea player
before the World Cup, where he is expected to add to his solitary senior international cap for Spain.
Falcao netted 72 goals in 87
appearances for FC Porto
before moving to Atletico Madrid where he racked up 70 goals in two
seasons before moving to AS Monaco last summer where he scored 11 goals in 19
appearances before suffering a knee injury that curtailed his campaign and ruled him out of the World Cup.
The 19 - year - old forward has made seven substitute
appearances for Arsenal this
season, winning a penalty in the 5 - 0 victory over Aston Villa at the start of February following an impressive performance in Arsenal's FA Cup fourth - round tie against Brighton and Hove Albion the week
before.
The 24 - year - old has impressed since moving to the Premier League in 2015, scoring eight goals and providing two assists in 35 Premier League
appearances last
season to improve on the campaign
before.
He was Baseball America's No. 7 prospect overall
before the 2003
season, but his struggles would be so pronounced that he got just 33 more plate
appearances for them over the next two
seasons, spending most of his time in Triple - A instead.
Journell had a troubled career with the Hokies — he was arrested
before the Sugar Bowl after going to the residence of two Virginia Tech basketball players with an air gun, resulting in his suspension for the team's Sugar Bowl
appearance, and he was suspended for the team's game against Marshall this
season.
Having been a virtual ever present in his first four
seasons at the west London club, making 195
appearances before the current camapain got under way, Ramires has started just two of Chelsea's first seven Premier League fixtures with Serbian battler Nemanja Matic getting the nod for a central midfield berth.
That's the way it turned out as he buried his penalty
before charging at the Curva, as he capped another impressive cameo
appearance with talk that perhaps he shouldn't call it a day at the end of this
season given that he's picked up from where he left off at the end of last year.
The former Arsenal ace has just three goals since he joined in January, while Batshuayi managed an impressive nine in 14
appearances for Dortmund
before an injury looked to end his
season.
Before that happens, though, Arsenal fans will be able to welcome back Jack's international team mate Danny Welbeck, with the Arsenal boss suggesting that the England striker could be in line to make his first
appearance of the
season when the Gunners take in Hull City in the 5th round of the FA cup next weekend.
Gnabry made just three
appearances for West Bromwich Albion this
season before being recalled from his loan spell in January.
That
season Cech made just seven
appearances for Chelsea
before making his 10 - million pound move away to Arsenal.
He had also scored seven times in 15 Premier League
appearances during a loan spell at Swansea four
seasons ago
before being snapped up by Spurs.
He was, however, able to make a significant contribution during the 2011/12 promotion
season, including the successful Play - Off series, but was subsequently limited to occasional substitute
appearances before his release and retirement.
Thus, if persistent knee ligament issues had not limited him to a total of eleven league
appearances during the 2014-15/2015 -16
seasons, he may have been yet another addition to the list of promising players who were sold on
before their talents could help propel Roma to a trophy.
Dele Alli marked his first
appearance in this
season's competition with a brace
before Christian Eriksen added a third to leave us in command against the 12 - time champions of Europe, whose late strike from Cristiano Ronaldo was a mere consolation on a glory, glory night.
Two years later, the Capital outfit decided to re-sign him from the Bianconeri via a buy - back clause, and he scored 20 goals in 43
appearances in the 2016/17
season before sealing his club - record switch to Chelsea prior to the current
season.
Duffy would make 22
appearances in all competitions
before a knee injury ended his first
season prematurely.
Twente made their only
appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2010/11 after winning their first Dutch title the
season before.
Before injury last
season, Rojo was in his best period of his United career, partnering Eric Bailly, injured at this present time, and on the night he suffered the injury, he had made his 41st
appearance that
season, which was his final
appearance.
Eriksen scored twice and assisted three times in four Eredivisie
appearances in the 2013/14 campaign
before moving to Tottenham for the rest of
season.
Before the winter break he was deployed out wide as an inside forward, where he used his decent pace and intelligence well to support the main striker, but since the
season resumed in March he was played centrally and scored an incredible 14 goals in 11
appearances.
Alberto Mendez, who was ironically signed in the same transfer window as Patrick Vieira, made just eleven
appearances in his first
season,
before he was loaned out to three different clubs
before being moved along to Racing Ferrol.