Spurs thread 2020/21

kaz7 said:
An injury and he gets the shirt,he can then try and keep it,Lloris is not all that
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This is a bit of a myth. Lloris was actually outstanding last season. As he is most seasons. I hope you don’t mind if I repost the following that was posted by someone on a Spurs forum the other day:

The stats for 2019-20 show that he prevented more expected goals than any other keeper in the league. Saving numerous shots that most keepers would have failed to save more than compensates for the two errors he made.

I believe de Gea was top for this stat in 2018-19, but Lloris fared well. Both are heavily criticised at times for making 2-3 obvious mistakes each season, but they consistently outperform most keepers in the league when you really delve into their overall contribution, instead of focusing only on the number of mistakes. That would be like judging an attacking player on failing to score 2-3 sitters, while ignoring that they created numerous goals from nothing and converted numerous shots that most players would have missed / not even attempted.
EDIT: Lloris has made 13 errors that led to goals in the PL during his 8 years - that's only 1.6 per season.

During his first couple of seasons with us, Lloris was criticised for conceding a few goals by coming off his line when he shouldn't have. However, most people completely overlooked that Lloris had the best success rate in Europe in sweeping and one-on-one situations - by a ridiculous margin (I can't find the article, but it was something like 98% success compared to an average of 55% for the average keeper in the top 5 leagues) and prevented many goal scoring opportunities from arising in the first place. He was constantly put in those situations because we were using a system with a very high line (dependent upon a sweeper keeper) that our outfield players were in the process of learning (and weren't all suited to - Kaboul, Dawson etc.).
 
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He said he was leaving Burnley in search of regular football, talks of his hunger on Sky, then signs for a club as 3rd choice keeper where he has less of a chance of being number 1 than at Burnley. I'm disappointed in him personally.
 
Ghost of 76 said:
He said he was leaving Burnley in search of regular football, talks of his hunger on Sky, then signs for a club as 3rd choice keeper where he has less of a chance of being number 1 than at Burnley. I'm disappointed in him personally.
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same, hes turned into the Richard Wright, rob green type of keeper but about 5 years too soon
 
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