Luka Modric was apparently worth a £40million bid in the summer from Chelsea to help the Blues’ attacking options. Thomas Vermaelan has scored 10 Premier League goals in 45 games, compared to Modric who has also scored 10 goals, but in 100 Premier League games. That stat would suggest that if Chelsea wanted to boost their attacking options, buy Arsenal’s centre back. Ridiculous I know, but some people I guarantee will take that statistic seriously.
Finally, I don’t think many people would suggest that Bolton defender David Wheater is the dirtiest player in the Premier League but averaging a red card every 261 minutes this season, which is worse than a red card in every three games, that is that now a fact!
Some people will get carried away with numbers but they do not always reflect what is happening on the pitch. The one statistic that really matters is the goals and it doesn’t matter if the other team had more of the ball or shots on target, if you win, that’s enough. Opinions are what it is all about and numbers on the screen after the game will not answer all the questions and debates that occur every week in pubs around England. The pundits don’t always know what they are talking about and we regular fans can see through any information that is irrelevant.
The article was written by Brad Pinard for FootballFancast.com. Make sure to check out the latest news, blogs and podcasts at FFC – ed.
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Mostly agree with the article too much is made of stats out of context although stats in context are sometimes useful, Chelsea once they went ahead against Valencia were happy to sit and let them have the ball and mop up attacks once they got to dangerous areas and then hit them on counter so just possession is a useless stat, possession in opposition area is more relevant stat. I actually disagree about Vorm he has been immense this season but how many saves isn’t a good way to judge because more shots means more saves, but if you work out how many shots against him are saves you’ll see its a high percentage and its more useful but even then its out of context because how many were straight at him, how many of the ones he missed should he have saved and so on. Thing is stats need to be in context an more in context they are the more complicated they become and unless you work at a club then you don’t need that level of info so the media simplify it and ‘dumb it down’ which is why the stats we usually see are so broad they are usually pointless.
InFootball statistics for the same there are differents opinions, reasons and understanding 1example of Swansea goal keeper because of saving more shots can be of the best goal keeper .my view Michel Vorm always on his line “BENEFITS” mostly of the misdirect or misapplicatioms of opponents shots moves straight to him and in the same occasion he ‘ Catch to save’ not ‘ Save to Catch’ can be also an opportunism as many goal scorers sometimes declare best where they are not