Off the top of my head, he had a hand in a couple of errors that lead to Messi scoring in a 1-1 draw at the Bridge a few years ago, so I suppose it depends on what is being classed as an error. On the face of it, this sounds like something silly someone on twitter made up.
It was from GiveMeSports. Also the Messi game couldn't be in the Premier League…?
It's not a made up stat but its a stat that doesn't count mistakes as mistakes. It says Lindelof only made 2 mistakes that lead to goals, Phil Jones made only 1 mistake that lead to goal.
Sorry I misread the post, but it still sounds completely made up, to be honest. He's played in 300 PL games, and that includes some rather poor defensive periods. If they're just measuring giving the ball away directly leading to a goal for example, then maybe, I can't think of any times he's done that but that would also be a rather pointless stat since it removes other types of mistakes.
Yeah it makes a lot more sense that they're omitting other types of mistakes to get such a nice looking stat.
He is involved in mistakes or not one of the best bargains of last decade. Cost us some 7-8 mn and won all in club competition except club world cup hopefully will win it this time. Lb,rb,lcb best 1 vs 1 defender in my opinion. Great servant for Chelsea. Captain azpilicueta.
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Hold it in London, that would make it a lot easier
!That’s would be a good solution, providing the Government gave Covid exemptions to the participating teams.Hold it in London, that would make it a lot easier
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If Chelsea win both, they've got to be favourites at this early stage, as by that point it would be: 16 points, from 18 against:
Worrying thing from a United fan perspective is Chelsea have played Villa, Pool, Arsenal and Palace and only conceded a single goal which was a peno. If Tuchel continues his hoodoo over Pep I think it will be pretty ominous.
Yeah.... but Villa is not the Villa from last season (they let me down in the Last Man Standing challenge
), and of course Arsenal is not the Arsenal. There are some question marks about Palace as well, so that string of opponents might look stronger on paper than in reality.Villa were good (3-0 was flattering) but Arsenal & Palace have been shit for a while.Yeah.... but Villa is not the Villa from last season (they let me down in the Last Man Standing challenge
The worrying thing re Villa is they were actually very good and still didn’t score. If Tuchel keeps them as solid as they were last season and adds Lukaku’s goals it’s worrying. I’d say fault is on you re last man standing to be honest! I made the mistake of going Arsenal first game of season only to see Brentford batter them so at least you got further than me.Yeah.... but Villa is not the Villa from last season (they let me down in the Last Man Standing challenge
To be fair to Utd, that's the only team out the 4 introducing a major new player in defence. That might sort itself out. Or, it might be Utd are just not quite as good as the other 3 off the ball, which is probably true.
Our issue last season was conceding silly goals to weaker teams (United had 44 GA, Liv 42, Chels 36, City 32 - made worse when you think Liverpool shipped 7 goals in one game/CB injuries and Chelsea did really poorly under Lampard). This year we've only dropped a couple of points at Soton but it is only GW4 and we've conceded in 3 out of 4 games.
The most worrying thing about Chelsea is how Tuchel has a clear system that he gets them to execute really well, even when they're having to make changes to the starting XI.
I'll add that another rather farcical goal we conceded was Smith Rowe in that annoying 1-0 loss at home to Arsenal.
Tbf we were decent defensively even under Lampard once Mendy and Silva were in the side.
It will be a tight contest this season. However, I have always been of the opinion defences win titles. For me, it is usually the teams that don't concede much who can hang in games where they're playing poor that win it at the end as over a season it works out better for them.
Chelsea are already the favourites but as you say once they've navigated those fixtures the easier games will come and then they'll be no looking back for them
With our wealth of attacking talent we're looking to just outscore the oppo, we'll be the league's great entertainers
I would genuinely love this, we've been way too pragmatic under every manager post SAF. If we're not winning things, we can at least go full Kevin Keegan.
My thinking is you can blow teams away with your firepower and your defence, in terms of individuals in the back 5, ranges from pretty good to genuinely world class. Yes you have a glaring weakness at the DM position but I think the strengths in the other areas can mitigate that weakness, and it's not like you're an absolute disaster there. Fred and Mctominay are very serviceable players.
I agree, however I think Chelsea are better equipped to deal with the likes of City and the Dippers etc. I mean, if it wasn't for the red card they looked like they would've won pretty comfortably at Anfield.
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I'm absolutely expecting that Werner/Lukaku combination to come through at some point. I'd expect him to try it against a fairly weak opponent though, at least at first.
He's not a big name still, I'm not sure how long it will take but he deserves way more respect than he gets at the moment. He keeps clean sheets for fun and barely puts a foot wrong.
And i for one, think Werner, Lukaku will work very well. I long for another JFH, Eidur partnership, or Dixon Speedie
He's top drawer at the moment, Cech has a good eye for a keeper it seems. Good agility and a bloody hell of a shot stopper
He is great defender can play multiple positions in back line. Very few could be better 1 vs 1 defender than him in my opinion.
