supersonicblue
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I heard he could be one of the COVID cases
#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances
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He isn't though. photographed driving to etihad on 29
sir baconface
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Having read this thread, I presume he drives slowly, parks in somebody else’s space and is allowed a 10-point turn before exiting?
NQCitizen
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Most accurate passes of all top 5 leagues in 2020. Most passes into the final 1/3rd of any Premier league player 20/21.
You might not like what Rodri's job is, but the statistics say he's quite good at it.
Another Mahrez/Gundogan type that gets stick for what he is asked to do, not because he's bad at what is requested of him.
You might not like what Rodri's job is, but the statistics say he's quite good at it.
Another Mahrez/Gundogan type that gets stick for what he is asked to do, not because he's bad at what is requested of him.
It's funny coz he is actually good at what he does. He isn't average or okay. He is very good.
Those who whine about him really need to check the facts.
PannickAtTheDisco
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Plodri.
PannickAtTheDisco
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No, Mahrez is demonstrably statistically not doing what he was asked to do, unless not scoring, not assisting and giving the ball away a lot more than when he joined is what Pep's asking him to do, in which case the prosecution rests either way.
NQCitizen
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5th in the league for key passes per game.
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Stats are only a small part of the game and don’t even tell the full story on the actual stat they’re representing.
Show me some stats on speed of his passes being too slow and how many moves they slow down... It’s alright making a successful pass, but what does the actual pass lead to? Was it fast enough to achieve what we needed in a particular move? Were there better passes on? Was it slightly behind or too far ahead of here it really needed to be making the recipient’s job harder? Was a chance worth taking for a different pass that might have ended in giving it away and ruining his stat, but might have ended in a attacking opportunity or even a chance at goal if he’d made it?
The stats don’t show any of that which is why stats and football aren’t always relevant.
Show me some stats on, not just his inability to get back goalside when he’s been run past, but his complete giving up on running back when run past... or the amount of time he stands still when other players have the ball meaning he can’t be passed to nor create a passing space where he should be moving from (Gundogan has moaned at him about this during the game with arm movements telling him to move)... or the quality of his game when other teams try and stifle him because of his lack of pace compared to teams that don’t...
Most of football is non-statistical. It’s not like American sports, where stats are the be-all and end-all.
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For a player that plays every week for the team with the most possession, where the game is played in his area of the field for the most part of the game, you’d bloody expect him to be up there!
When Gundogan was playing there for us in the latter half of 2018-19, he had some the best stats in Europe across the board, and he was rated by Opta as the best player in Europe from February to May.
He was also good in a non-statistical sense too, was our most consistent player in that time, but the stats didn’t mean he was the best player in Europe. He was just in a team that had the most possession and scored the most goals (even though he was excellent in an all-round sense that season).
Again, on the representation of a pass statistic, nowhere does it go into the detail of how good the pass really was. A Key Pass represents a pass that leads to a chance that is missed, this may mean his actual pass was poor hence why the chance was missed.
Opta; “Key Pass. The final pass or pass-cum-shot leading to the recipient of the ball having an attempt at goal without scoring.”
Is there a stat to show the quality of the pass? Is Len Goodman drafted in to give “SEVEEEN”s out for rating the passes? Or are the quality of passes completely ignored for the stat, making the stat useless?
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