Yet fast forward to the present day and Leeds remain unbeaten in the Championship with only two
goals conceded so far.
It may be unfair to spotlight one player in what has been an awful season for us at the back (43 PL
goals conceded so far) but Mustafi's inconsistencies are hardly of benefit to the confidence of the others.
but has Wenger given up on Ospina already, even with
no goals conceded so far?
We have the joint lowest
goals conceded so far this season.
However,
the goals they concede so cheaply puts a question mark on their defending, leaving them look like a championship side.
Not exact matches
referring decisions also go in our favour, for instance that dortmund
goal sanogo scored was clearly offside, these things are apart of football, GREAT teams overcome these obstacles, GREAT teams do not crumble with 3 or 4
goal leads, GREAT teams do not
concede 3 +
goals in 40 mins REGULARLY, GREAT teams average more than one tackle every 90 mins, GREAT teams don't need more 7 clear cut chances to score, united have academy players in defence, in fact our defensive players are 15x better but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have had an injury list just as long if not longer than ours but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have just gone through a managerial shift but VAN GAAL will get a result,
so why on earth are united in the title race and not arsenal?
He was involved or directly responsible for four of our eight
conceded goals so far this season!
Araenal fans that says we were lucky against man u on Monday need to shut the f**k up...
so what if we score on a bad bk pass... how much time this season we
conceded f*cked up
goals?
Arsenal
conceded 36
goals last season, 1 more than Man United and Tottenham, hence by your logic those teams also need to strengthen at the back, and have not done anything worth talking about
so far.
Raheem Sterling is over hyped by the english media, there's no way he's worth 50mil, I would rather we keep Walcott and focus on more crucial positions like a Goalkeeper along with the defence
so we
concede less
goals
It is pretty amazing to consider that Arsenal have not
conceded a single first half
goal in the last 14 Premier League games and only six from our last 11 complete games,
so it is clear that teams are finding it a real problem to cope with our fast starts.
There is
so much talk about getting wingers and strikers that we are all forgetting our stats from last season.It was not scoring
goals which was the problem (thanks to Alexis whom people have already started demonising for being ambitious) but its
conceding goals which is our problem.
So shouldn't the club be more focussed on getting a CDM and a CB.
Defensive organization Looking at our defense structure
so far this season has been terrible, we gave free kicks easily,
conceded goals in silly scenarios, and defending set - pieces and dead ball situations very poorly.
And should losing their lead happened in error next time, they MUST play with general team discipline in defending individually and as a team unit
so as not to
concede a backbreaker
goal which almost happened yesternight if Cavani was more prolific.
More
so we didn't miss the top 4 for lack of
goals, we lost it to
conceding useless
goals.
There is said to be interest from other clubs, but at this stage it looks as though Mourinho could be moving in on a solution for his defensive troubles
so far this season which have seen United
concede 16
goals in just 14 games.
He balanced our squad
so we stopped
conceding so much and helped the defense, allowing our attacking players to do their business without the urge of chasing a
goal down.
As a result, it would surely require a player to head out first to make space for Werner, but having spent
so heavily on their attack, it's only logical that they address their issues at the other end of the pitch given that they possess the worst defensive record of the top seven Premier League sides this season having
conceded 36
goals in 27 games.
Despite Guardiola's worries over his side's defence, they seem to be coping pretty well
so far, as City currently have the joint best defence in the whole of the Premier League, with the Spaniard's side only
conceding 11
goals in just 16 games
so far.
Look at how many
goals we have
conceded so far.
With Alexis Sanchez in the team though, along with plenty more creation and
goal threat from Gunners like Cazorla, Walcott, Ramsey and the Ox, I think that Arsenal will always have chances to score,
so maybe Wenger needs to focus more on not
conceding.
This was the first time Arsenal
conceded three
goals in the first half of a home Premier League game and the first time they have done
so in a home league game since March 1989 against Nottingham Forest.
The English shot stopper has only
conceded 20
goals so far this season, one less than Manchester United's, David de Gea, and two less than Arsenal's, Petr Cech.
We gave
so many chances away due to our usual horrendous organization, when we have lost the ball, and if it wasn't such a poor side we were playing, we would have
conceded several
goals again.
Chelsea are lucky becuase they are very organized side who don't
concede goals so easily under Mourinho whereas our players panic in big games.
But I digress as usual...
So this match could be a lot harder than Tottenham — as Leicester are the only unbeaten team left in the Premiership after Man City got beat last week, but they are also
conceding goals in every game.
United have
conceded just five
goals in 11 Premier League games
so far this season, and Jones has been a crucial part of that impressive record as he has been an ever - present for the Red Devils.
At least if we struggle to score
goals (because of our non existent main striker) at least steady up the cm position
so we don't
concede as many
goals.
Also, Chelsea have looked unstoppable in recent times, they have won their last 5 games without
conceding a
goal so it is really important that we match their run and stay on top of our game.
when chambers is in there he does nt trust him enough
so he runs out of position trying to cover spots Koscielny would be covering n gets caught out, Debuchy is stronger has abit of pace and very good in the air Merts trusts him and his experience that is the same for Monreal id start Monreal or Debuchy ahead of Chambers although he is impressive for his age we shouldnt be putting all our trust into a 19 year old in that position look at Stokes first
goal a simple header for the first
goal conceded which he completely missed.
With John Stones injured, Everton have been left short at the back, and have
conceded 17
goals in 9 games
so far.
So even though Leicester and Man City have scored more EPL
goals and Everton have the same 27 as the Gunners, they have also
conceded more.
They also
conceded just 3
goals in 8 Champions League matches
so far.
I felt we were in a bother we played on Wednesday a hard match where we scored 6
goals so Thursday every one was off with only Friday to work on the match we were jaded
so the good news we did not
concede and at the end we could have won it we surely missed carzola but if xaka was available it would have helped ramsey and geroud was unavailable too I felt we should have played with lucas peres from the start but all in all we did nt loose and now on with Tuesday
The Reds sit in ninth place in the Premier League table, and have
conceded 16
goals in nine games
so far this year, with only five other teams possessing a worse defensive record.
Although Arsenal responded well to a poor first half to get a deserved equalising
goal through Theo Walcott, I think the main reason we came away from Old Trafford with a point was that we only
conceded once while Man United were all over us,
so I am giving the Man of the Match to Laurent Koscielny who just shaded Mertesacker.
I was actual happy whether he is there or not it does not make any difference, Is like we do not have a keeper, Boys scores
goals later on Cech
concedes also
so what different does it make.
He has played in everyone of their 36 matches in the division
so far, and has helped the defence to be
concede the least
goals in the league.
So, Ospina lets in less
goals and makes more saves per
goal conceded than the goalies for the other top four teams.
If we had a better defender in the middle after Ox lost that ball we wouldn't have
conceded a 3rd
goal Mert is
so slow it's not even funny anymore.
Man City have only
conceded 12
goals so far this campaign, with Otamendi's performances going a long way to contributing to this.
United have
conceded 12
goals in nine games
so far this season in the Premier League, which leaves them with the worst defensive record out of the top eight teams in the table.
Mourinho might be an annoying, disrespectful and arrogant
so - and -
so, but he is no mug and will be wary of
conceding the first
goal.
We would score a fantastic
goal and everyone would be like Arsenal is
so good with attack they should be winning the league, then we would
concede the most easiest of
goals 2 mins later and we wondered if we would even make they top 4.
If Liverpool had Virgil Van Dijk at the start of the season, they probably wouldn't have
conceded so many
goals and points.
What you talking about they did Ok come on now we had 8 sure chances on
goal their keeper did well ospina was board and was called for action this was a football game we did not
concede so all in all we did ok the players did ok they achieved the win
We were
conceding loads of
goals when we were playing «back four» as well as «back three»
so it's the training and the way the team is set up that determines the outcome of matches We
conceded 2
goals in the first half at Anfield with «back three» and
conceded another 2 in the second half with» back four» though it could have been more in both halves but for our goalkeeper's alertness.
As regards to him not having much to do, he made more saves per
goal conceded than than the other top goalkeepers,
so that does not support your theory.
I do nt care what they Park as long as we do not
concede actually It would suit me best as we can play around them and keep the ball from them we will score but i think they will go at us
so we need to be at our best as long as we do not
concede we will win the game but we will need to be crisp accurate and fast 123
goal
«We have
conceded a number of penalties in games where the penalty was the only
goal [we
conceded],
so sometimes you have these runs which are a bit unlucky against you but you would like to do something extra and find one extra save.