«Next season we have to improve even more, because this season we improved in relation to last season, more points and more victories, more goals scored,
less goals conceded, better results against the top five teams, we improved at every level, but it was not enough.
They have hailed Chelsea as the team with the best defensive record despite the fact that the Saints have more clean sheets and
less goals conceded compared to Chelsea.
You can spend money on getting more goals scored or
less goals conceded.
Not exact matches
We also have to consider that Monaco have
conceded less goals than we scored tonight in their entire campaign.
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
I really do nt understand, they were play great IMO, they try harder and make a 2
goal to the
less conceded team in CL.
Name / games played /
goals conceded / saves per
goal / clean sheets Ospina / 18/0.61 / 3.18 / 0.44 Courtois / 32/0.96 / 2.10 / 0.38 Hart / 36/0.94 / 2.38 / 0.39 De Gea / 37/0.98 / 2.17 / 0.3 In other words, Ospina
conceded less goals, made more saves per
goal conceded and had more clean sheets than the others.
Arsenal scored just 3
goals less than Leicester and
conceded the same number as Leicester.
We've
conceded 2
less goals than Swansea.
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.
I've only kept a mental record and what I'm accusing Arsenal of doing is
conceding a
goal less than 10 mins after going down every time.
Might be cheaper and equally effective to buy Cech and try and
concede 3,4 or 5
less goals a season.
So, Ospina lets in
less goals and makes more saves per
goal conceded than the goalies for the other top four teams.
In other words, Ospina
concedes less goals, makes more saves per
goal conceded and has more clean sheets per 90 minutes played.
If Cech happens then # 10M to perhaps
concede 2 - 4
less goals (not forgetting
less conceded goals carries as much weight as additional
goals scored) appears top value and a no - brainer compared to these # 30 - 50M centre forward investments.
Did you know that as at the time that Chelsea won the league they had
conceded just five
less goals than Arsenal and same number of
goals with Southampton?
By the way they have only
conceded 5
goals, which are
less than half of
goals conceded by chelsea, arsenal, and man city.
Szcz should be kept for 12 months, I know Szcz needed to grow up but he appears to be doing so at Roma, he has played 2 games more than Cech and he has kept 8 more clean sheets while
conceding 6
less goals.
Chelsea scored just 2
goals than us last season but
conceded less goals and that is why Wenger was quick to get Cech to address that.
Chelsea and man city with so called beast DMs have
conceded 2 and 1
goal less than Arsenal's terrible defence.
In the second leg, when the match is already lost and no hope, the players will play their hearts out and maybe draw or loose narrowly and some wenger fans will be like the team tried and gave their all and will say Giroud is improving and that we should wait until next season and see the real Giroud and we don't need new signings and we just need to
concede less goals.
We have to admit that some
goal that we
conceded are due to Sczesny arrogance, shaky and
less communication with our back 4.
We have currently scored one
goal less than our rivals, whilst having
conceded once more.
With sound defense and dependable defensive midfielder we will
concede less goals.
We are definitely short in defence we need to buy more class defenders so we can improve as a team, if you
concede less goals there's more chance of winning games
TargetEnglish defenders — 70 % of English defenders have seen a top 6 club
concede less goals.
Target full backs rather than goalkeeper - an upgrade at full back sees a top 6 club
concede less goals 42 % of the time.
Scoring 5 more
goals a season will win us fewer points than
conceding 10
less.
They have
conceded 27
goals in the 35 matches so far, which is one
less than next lowest Southampton.
In other words, Ospina
conceded less goals, made more saves per
goal conceded and had more clean sheets.
It might be down to a more attacking style which has seen us score 8 more
goals than at this stage last season, (although for only a point better off and one
less defeat but still 2nd in the table)
conceding 4 more in the process.
Chelsea won the league
conceding just 4
goals less than Arsenal.
Our defence worked, with Le Coq and Cazorla in front, we allowed
less then 1
goal per game and at the end we
conceded just 1
goal more then two best defences that season.
After we gave Chelski a good spanking last season in probably Conte's fifth or sixth game in charge he immediately re organised them and went through till the new year unbeaten.He had them very solid at the back and scoring
goals for fun.And all this with a squad of players he inherited and their top striker Costa wanting Away.They ended up romping to the Premiere League Title scoring loads more
goals and
conceding far
less than Wengers Arsenal.We by the way are treading water at best this season and would not bet on us finishing above Chelski even allowing for the season they are having.
My fellow gunners Wenger is a failure either you admit or not, though this is a preseason match which is
less important just to make the players gain fitness, before the competitive matches commence, but at the same time Wenger's tactics and formation should be questioned especially against big teams, he had
conceded numerous
goals against big teams in which today's match is a reflection of what we are talking about, his old and out dated philosophy is no longer valid in modern football, no wonder Alexis Sanchez can't confide in his plans to propel the team in winning major honours, Wenger still believe in some of the bunch of fringe players he should have gotten rid of in the team and replace them with world class players or players that are hungry for success like Alexis, anyway there is still much time in the transfer window presently to do that, if he can change the hands of time and stop being too stubborn.
Only Chelsea
conceded less goals than the South coast side, who let in 33 as they managed to finish seventh despite several high profile departures the summer before.
Instead of fixating on replacing Giroud to get maybe 4 - 6 extra
goals a season (and contrary to accepted popular belief there are very few if any supporters who would be upset if an upgrade came in) why can't we a bit more imaginative about this;
conceding 10
less goals could have won us the title just as easily, further refining our balance between defence and attack, building on the cohesion and fledgling confidence we have built - up may, just may, bring bigger benefits than ripping the spine of the team out and starting again.
They stayed up on the basis of scoring 52
goals, 7th best in the league, but if they want to progress, they'll have to
concede less goals.
Defensively Xhaka improves our midfield, if Holding turns out to be an improvement over Mertesacker we should
concede less goals.
They
conceded a lot
less goals but that's because of the bashings we received.
I don't expect anything special this season, except that maybe after 38 league games we would've
conceded less than that,
less than 38
goals.
Check again when we had a proper DM, we are still scoring
goals and
conceding less.
The stats show that Man City
concede a lot more
goals, lose more games and win
less without Kompany, but can Arsenal take advantage of this and secure a top three finish?
We've
conceded 6 more
goals than Chelsea but only scored 3
less.
Even the stats back up that with him playing we
concede more
goals, score
less and reel in a significant lower amount of points.
Score few
goals but
less concede.
Liverpool have
conceded 44 Premier League
goals this term, six other teams have let in
less including Crystal Palace, so one can well see why Rodgers would seek to shore up his defence.
That moment when Tottenham has scored 8 more
goals than Arsenal,
conceded 3
less and done all this with 8 English players (3 homegrown since u18's) on the starting XI / bench.
What is
less easy to explain is
conceding such terrible
goals with no defenders out.
It would have been just as easy for us to win the league last year by
conceding 10
less goals as it would to spend # 30 - 40M to buy 10 more
goals.