Saves meaning he prevented a goal? Is that not the main aim? If you spend the majority of the time without the ball your likely to be defending meaning you will have a lot more shots against you. We still did our job and not concede much.
No idea what you're on about here.
So far this goes like this:
You make a claim that Jose needs to make the defence work again, like last season.
I point out it didn't work, and that the only reason for our low amount of goals against is because De Gea made an insane amount of quality saves
You say that it's the main aim of the goalkeeper.
Which isn't the point, nobody is going to argue that.
The point is that the defence didn't work last season, not very well atleast, especially not compared to the other top clubs.
We had more shots against us from inside the box (229) than from outside the box (172), we had 20 shots against from inside the 5 yard line. A total expected goals against us which was 43,54. Roughly twice as many (shots against from inside the box, outside, inside 5 yard line, and expected goals) as Manchester City.
If our defence was solid, given the defensive way we play, you'd expect a large amount of shots but a small expected goals against as most shots would be long range attempts as the opposition shouldn't be able to break us down.
De Geas stats from last season, in terms of saving shots with a high expected goal number, was somewhat insane. Not that there's anything wrong with having a world class goalkeeper, but there's clearly something wrong with how we play given the amount of saves De Gea has to make.