Pogue Mahone
Swiftie Fan Club President
Roma’s second goal made Fred and McT look like mugs, defensively. And there’s been a few goals conceded this season where they’ve made poor individual errors. The Fred thread is full of stuff about how easy he is to dribble past. The McT thread talks about him hiding all the time.
Brain farts aside, I was curious to see how good they really are at protecting our defence. The stats are interesting.
We’ve started 18 games with them as a pair at the base of midfield (including almost all our toughest fixtures) In those 18 games we’ve conceded 11 goals. Every second fixture was a clean sheet. Extrapolated to a full season that’s 23 goals conceded. City have the meanest defence so far this season with 24 goals conceded and 4 games left to play. Chelsea are next, after shipping 31 in 33.
In games where they didn’t start we conceded 21 goals in 14 games. That works out at 57 goals over a full season.
Yet somehow Fred and McT are both portrayed as defensive liabilities.
Something just doesn’t add up. What’s going on? Discuss.
Brain farts aside, I was curious to see how good they really are at protecting our defence. The stats are interesting.
We’ve started 18 games with them as a pair at the base of midfield (including almost all our toughest fixtures) In those 18 games we’ve conceded 11 goals. Every second fixture was a clean sheet. Extrapolated to a full season that’s 23 goals conceded. City have the meanest defence so far this season with 24 goals conceded and 4 games left to play. Chelsea are next, after shipping 31 in 33.
In games where they didn’t start we conceded 21 goals in 14 games. That works out at 57 goals over a full season.
Yet somehow Fred and McT are both portrayed as defensive liabilities.
Something just doesn’t add up. What’s going on? Discuss.