EricBrooksGhost
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Re: A Statistical Comparison of Tevez, Dzeko, and Aguero
I genuinely think you've never kicked a ball in your life.
Your ignorance and arrogance hold no bounds. Two fundamentals of Barcelona's game is movement off the ball when in possession and pressing when not in possession; guess what that involves running. Movement creates space and options, it disrupts the opposition's defence.AntiUnited said:CaliforniaBlue said:MCFC1993 said:If only it was just the goals per min/game that mattered.
Fact is that its not.
Fair play to you for putting the stats together but as Prestwich Blue alluded to early on in this thread, Tevez and Aguero graft their bollocks and score and contribute to goals/team performance. Dzeko just gives you the goals and even they are usually in batches, before he goes on a barren spell.
I'm also not buying for a second that our team thinks "Shit, Dzeko's up front today, we better graft extra hard".
What I show in the OP is that Dzeko actually has the lowest goals per min/game, when he starts, so that isn't the main thrust at all. I can't say I blame anyone for not carefully reading the entire OP, but for those who are critical of Dzeko because they think the most important thing is a player's contribution to the team performance (in terms of team goals), the truth is not at all what they think. In fact Dzeko comes out much better in terms of team goals than he does in terms of goals he scores himself.
So the numbers show (over the entire 45 game season - not cherry picked to prove any preconception) that Dzeko's presence causes the rest of the team to score more goals than either Aguero or Tevez. That looks like a greater contribution to the team performance in my book, which is exactly the opposite of the Bluemoon conventional wisdom.
You can make your own guesses about how this has happened, but you can't argue that it isn't true, because it is (btw, the "lazy Dzeko makes everyone else work harder" theory was offered facetiously as the only way out for those who refuse to acknowledge anything good about Dzeko).
They dont give a shit. running around is more important then putting the ball in the back of the net.
I genuinely think you've never kicked a ball in your life.