CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
I know some of you don't give a flip about stats and I concede that they should be viewed as nothing more than a piece of objective reality...however, I have been as frustrated as anyone about our play and was playing around on Squawka's site looking for some objective reality and two stats that caught my eye...
DEF ERROR GOAL & DEF ERROR NO GOAL.
My thought was that we seem a bit unlucky...we've conceded too many set piece goals, no question, but in open play, we've been pretty sound. My thought was who were the luckiest vs. unluckiest teams, which teams seem to always concede when they make an error vs. the ones that don't.
Now I didn't double check the stats and they were as of last week, but sure enough, we are a bit unlucky. We've commited 12 defensive errors and conceded 5 goals from them. Average for the league is 29%. But nowhere near as unlucky as Huddersfield. It also is interesting that Wolves has been remarkably lucky - which makes sense, because when I watch them they don't see particularly good other than passing the ball fairly well. Leicster is also quite lucky.
Now really, it's not all luck, many of these teams pack it in or play counter attacking styles and with more numbers behind the ball, perhaps it's tougher to convert those mistakes into goals..no sure. Goalkeeping might be a help as well, there are some pretty good players at the top IMO.
Anyways, thought it was worth posting.
DEF ERROR GOAL & DEF ERROR NO GOAL.
My thought was that we seem a bit unlucky...we've conceded too many set piece goals, no question, but in open play, we've been pretty sound. My thought was who were the luckiest vs. unluckiest teams, which teams seem to always concede when they make an error vs. the ones that don't.
Now I didn't double check the stats and they were as of last week, but sure enough, we are a bit unlucky. We've commited 12 defensive errors and conceded 5 goals from them. Average for the league is 29%. But nowhere near as unlucky as Huddersfield. It also is interesting that Wolves has been remarkably lucky - which makes sense, because when I watch them they don't see particularly good other than passing the ball fairly well. Leicster is also quite lucky.
Now really, it's not all luck, many of these teams pack it in or play counter attacking styles and with more numbers behind the ball, perhaps it's tougher to convert those mistakes into goals..no sure. Goalkeeping might be a help as well, there are some pretty good players at the top IMO.
Anyways, thought it was worth posting.
