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Debroslink:
Deal transpired on April 29 2019.

Airmark, show your honour!

sod09:
don't let me down bro, I'm rooting for you
Ibime going down

Hanksanuku done fall your hand.

He took 4 point hit to fight a team deploying vibranium (bench boost). You and him better pray Aguero scores hattrick and Robertson drops 2 assists cos that's his only way out the trap I've set for him.

Leyqute:
Whilst playing Kolon, Hamburger and Ketchup FC

They told us LaLiga has more strength in depth due to Sevilla and co. Now EPL clubs are taking Europa serious it's something to be proud of. EPL 5th team just flogged LaLiga 6th team 3-1.

Chelsea 16 games unbeaten in Europa

We suppose don bury match this 2nd half

Peeeedriiiiitoooo!

SMH

afrodoc2:
Interceptions, blocked shots, clearances all depend on positioning and reading the game, are low risk actions, and also generally form the bulk of your defensive actions.

Tackling on the other hand is a high risk activity that is more likely than the others to lead to fouls and cards. While it is a worthwhile skill to have it should only be used when absolutely necessary, and that usually happens when a defensive assignment has been missed earlier by someone.

Any central defender who depends on tackling more than the other skills is a calamity waiting to happen.

Like Marcus Rojo

cc larride

larride:
How can clearance be greater than tackles and interceptions for a CB? Really?

Clearance should be far greater than tackles. Think how many times a cross or long ball comes into the box per game

larride:


Let’s see this;


Tackles: VVD - 35, TAA - 57
Tackles won: VVD - 25, TAA - 37
Interception: VVD - 40, TAA - 33
Clearance: VVD - 193, TAA - 54
Minute played: VVD - 3205, TAA - 2286


Tackles: VVD - 35, Robertson - 78
Tackles won: VVD - 25, Robertson - 48
Interception: VVD - 40, Robertson - 29
Clearance: VVD - 193, Robertson - 44
Minute played: VVD - 3205, Robertson - 3045


Tackles: VVD - 35, Matip - 36
Tackles won: VVD - 25, Matip - 24
Interception: VVD - 40, Matip - 28
Clearance: VVD - 193, Matip - 71
Minute played: VVD - 3205, Matip - 1445

Now looking at the above stat, you can see that VVD, TAA, Robertson and Matip have comparable tackles and interception but VVD has almost triple their clearance. Now make your deduction.


With this few points of mine, I hope I have been able to convince you and not confuse you that TAA, Robertson, Matip and even Allison have contributed heavily to the improvement of Liverpool defense.

Don't confuse yourself with stats. Full backs and CBs have different jobs on the pitch, hence the disparity in tackles and clearances. For example the byline where fullbacks operate is a safe place to make tackles but the penalty box where CBs operate is not.

If you are good on your clearances, you should not need to make as many tackles. That means you are in position to clear the ball before danger develops requiring you to tackle. In the same way, I do not expect fullbacks to make as many clearances as CBs because the box is where you make clearances which is CB zone.

Interceptions are neither here nor there. They are correlated to stopping counterattacks.

What you should do is show us VVD clearances against other CBs in EPL to get a better view.

simonjassy:
Actually i don't think mane's chance was a sitter.
and barca didn't really have harder chances when most of them came from counters usually leaving 2-3 liverpool players to face messi (we all know how technically gifted he is) ,suarez and either 1 of alba,semedo and dembele.

Suarez and Messi 2nd goal is harder than anything Liverpool missed today.

The 2nd goal is just good fortune to bounce back on Messi chest to show it was Barcas day and not Liverpool day.

When it's not your day, it's not your day!

popizaino:
If only mourinho's advocate never rubbed winning the la liga in his second season at our faces.

Nobody rubbed winning local competition in your face. When the ball lickers kept singing how Guardiola broke EPL points and GD record, they were simply reminded that Mourinho did the same in LaLiga.

What Mourinho advocate will rub in your face is how he won UCL twice with 2 different clubs without carryalong.

If Arturo Vidal was a Nigerian, SARS go provoke. Sod09 how you see am?

popizaino:
To show you how it is easy to win the ucl with c.ronaldo,Zidane without any prior first team coaching experience won it 3x in a row. Even ancelloti who couldn't get psg to the ucl semi finals won ucl with c.ronaldo.

Did you see.anyone sucking Zidanes mojo everyday here, even through Zidanes feat of three-in-a-row is unprecedented, Ronaldo or no Ronaldo.

Ancelotti has done it before he met Ronaldo unlike the bald Messi carryalong.

simonjassy:
Is it only me that saw barca,parking the bus, slightly less as evident as mourinho's.

To be fair, Liverpool were their equals on the pitch but football is about taking your chances. Na who score pass dey win match, that's why I place great value in goalscorers. Na me bring the word "productive" and "unproductive" to Nairaland, they used to mock me with it then. Whilst Suarez and Messi were productive with the harder chances they were given today, Mane and Salah were missing sitters, end of story.

popizaino:
No, only if he did it in his first season like pep guardiola.

What of those who were getting flogged in their first season in EPL like Pep? Should we discard any subsequent success?

Unlimited22:

My brother, that's what they call from frying pan into fire.

So na this Messi wey Hazard want go Spain to compete with, without Ronaldo to carry him.

I laugh in Itsekiri. Chelsea may win trophy before Hazard does at Madrid.

raumdeuter:
When he gets sacked the number of times Mourinho has

To show you how easy it is to win with Barca that Valverde will be on course for sextuple and Roma reject like Enrique would win treble

Salah. SMH

Messi is WPOTY

Valverde on for sextuple this year. I hope Fraudiola fans will be here to sing his praises same way

pamcode:
How?

Na him man be that. He was ball watching. Still a difficult run to stop at the best of times but Suarez was his man.

That goal is VVD fault.

Afobear:
Arya stark kills the night King

Guy why you wicked like this na?

Meanwhile, these Ajax teenagers dey kpokpos Spuds anyhow. I was not taking them serious before. I'm falling in love with Ajax again, na them be my first European club during Kanu and Finidi era.

HanksAnuku:
This weekend fam.

It's gonna be bloody like the latest GOT episode.

I'm coming in like Greyworm next weekend.

Thecassanova:
Kovacic is still the same gragra with no end product. Off 1min, on the 2nd. It’s useless playing both Jorginho & Kovacic at the same time.

RLC too not consistent. It’s a shame I’m even preferring Barkley to the two.

Kovacic should be played as one of 2 DMs with no attacking input expected from him. I see him as a lesser version of Dembele who does not create anything but is difficult to dispossess

Oboy that GOT episode 3 no be here abeg

TV at it's finest

Chelsea youth into another UEFA final after beating Barca on penalties

Wrong thread

The top4 got wiped out in FA Cup by those who finished 5th to 8th

This life na turn by turn

Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manure had lost 14 of their last 28 games between them before this match.

Piguain is useless!