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You dont need a stat to show you that when a team has more possession they're less likely to concede than when they have less.
I'm sure there are plenty but I'm fucked if I'm looking for them. I've looked at opta before, it makes my brain bleed.
It's a fact that more possession means you're more likely to win games. It doesn't make it a given, obviously.
There isn't much in the way of supportive evidence.
And that's why there's a problem with the logic
Funny how we've had more success in the last 2 decades being reserved, than we have playing more open and adventurous football. Barca are just the latest craze, attacking fullbacks aren't indicative of any "right" way,we've been statistically poorer defensively since Johnson arrived, and it's had negligible impact on our attack prowess.
Perhaps, but it does mean you give up on players like Coutinho. You can't have someone like him and a fullback that stands on the halfway line for 90mins because our left flank would then be empty.
It's all just a trade-off.
I don't see many fullbacks that are great defenders these days anyways.
Just sharing what I've came across previously:
Another Spanish research: http://jssm.org/vol9/n2/18/v9n2-18pdf.pdf
And one from Wales: Possession as a performance indicator in soccer
On a sidenote:
http://www.analysingfootball.com/2011/07/30/the-importance-of-possession-in-football-2010-11/
Another Spanish research: http://jssm.org/vol9/n2/18/v9n2-18pdf.pdf
And one from Wales: Possession as a performance indicator in soccer
On a sidenote:
http://www.analysingfootball.com/2011/07/30/the-importance-of-possession-in-football-2010-11/
Yay! Binny, you're aces.
There you go Ross. Pretty conclusive.
There you go Ross. Pretty conclusive.
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I think it's fair to say Rosco killed this thread with his amazing gibberish.
Perhaps he should've started a new one instead of ruining the one about a player we've actually signed...
*sigh*
Welcome Aly, may you continue your promising form from the Lyon days!!!
Perhaps he should've started a new one instead of ruining the one about a player we've actually signed...
*sigh*
Welcome Aly, may you continue your promising form from the Lyon days!!!
Sacrificing yourself defensively shouldn't really be a reflection on the player. We bought Johnson to replace Arebloa because we wanted to be more attacking. Arbeloa didn't stay deep continuously, he overlapped and supported but didn't neglect his defensive duties. It's a daft argument both ways. We all know possession based football is a good way to go, that's obvious, you've got more of a chance of doing something the more you have the ball, but you can still buy players within that who know their primary role well enough to not make it a watered down version, just because they want their game to be more expressive.
I think he put him on for exactly what we saw a couple of times, making rapid forays upfield and relieving pressure.
Yes
Turned out to be a good move. Still, it kinda disappoints me a bit that we fear Villa.
Yup. There were just too many players having 'off' days and the team as a whole just wasn't working.
Damage limitation.
He put him on because our midfield was lacking energy. He gave us a bit of that, but we didn't really learn anything about him today.
I think they just fell asleep playing the game, because I was really finding it hard to stay awake. There is no intensity to our play.
No great teams have bad days. I mean, take that wonderful team up in Manchetser - they won the title last year by winning every game convincingly and were dominant in every game. I hope one day we can be as dominant like that ... or at least like I used to be when playing with Liverpool in FIFA '99
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