In Europe this season, all of our defenders atleast made a big mistake in one or
more goals conceded.
Not exact matches
They are not as secure at the back as WBA and are therefore
more susceptible to
conceding goals.
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?
At this stage of the season Man City have won
more games,
conceded fewer
goals, and scored nearly twice as many
goals as Arsenal did during our best ever season under Wenger.
Cech has given away 11
goals from outside the box, which is
more long - range
goals conceded than any other team in the premier league besides Stoke.
Goals conceded were awsome, the otheirs conceded 50 % more goals than
Goals conceded were awsome, the otheirs
conceded 50 %
more goals than
goals than him.
We did not sign an impact player in Perez (52
goals his entire career), the manager is the same, and even if Mustafi helps us imporve our defense, last season we only
conceded one
more goal than the best defense in the league.
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.
But one thing I've noticed is that they are
conceding way
more goals than last year.
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'll tell you once
more, ox made one
goal and made us
conceded one
goal, that's made us KO, not performance today!!
Liverpool have
conceded eleven
goals in six league games — thats one
more than the top three combined.
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.
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.
Also if you see our stats for last 5 yr, last year was when we scored
more goals but we also
conceded more goals.
Both sides have scored a remarkably similar tally over those games, but City have
conceded an average of one
more goal per game.
Heurelho Gomes has
conceded 23
goals in eight Premier League games against Arsenal, nine
more than any other team he has faced.
Back 3 Formation is good and it is giving good defensive shape for us... We are looking
more assured on defensive side of our game... Being attacking is always good but you have to make sure that you are not
conceding goal because as far as you are not
conceding a
goal, you are not loosing game....
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.
I know you are disappointed that we
conceded only 4
goals but don't worry there are many
more games to come.
Since the rise of Coq we have not
conceded more than 2
goals in any game except the ridiculous Monaco match and have looked securer at the back consistently.
if we switched to this formation coz we
concede too much
goals but at least we use to score
more....
More so we didn't miss the top 4 for lack of
goals, we lost it to
conceding useless
goals.
After that we were playing a bit
more to not
concede a
goal and that's what the game was about because we knew that was absolutely vital to win today.»
#top Six stat # Well beaten by Liverpool Haven't played Man u yet Lost
more matches than the top Six already Awful away record Only scored
more goals than Tottenham Only Liverpool had
concede more goals than Arsenal Having our two best players possibly leaving on a bosman deal
We defended badly once again and could have
conceded more than the four
goals that we did.
Soft
goals conceded once
more.
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His Own
Goal helped Olympiakos to a 3 - 2 victory, and according to Whoscored.com, David Ospina has
conceded more goals, than he made saves, 4 saves, 5
goals.
This is only their second serie A loss this season and the only time they've
conceded more than two serie A
goals.
The fact that we didn't
concede more goals is either down to luck, poor finishing, good defensive cover or good goalkeeping.
The Gunners have won only 3 away games this campaign, and would you believe that only 5 teams in the whole division have
conceded more away
goals than us, and one of those is Liverpool!
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.
Pep brought some of that basic team defending discipline to Man City and they
conceded basically half the
goals we did (19 vs 10) and only 1
more than league - best Man U (9).
Only the Latics (25) have
conceded more goals at home than the Royals (21).
Interesting to note that Arsenal have already won as many games as they did last year and scored
more goals... for all this talk of needing a striker if you look at the number of
goals we have
conceded that is where it has been lost!
The Canaries have
conceded more goals (13) from outside the area than any other team in the Premier League this term.
We need to score at least 22
goals and not
concede more than 5
goals in the final 10 matches.
When one analyzes the 4 games in which the team
conceded three or
more goals, a number of factors come into play: attacking players losing balls in our defensive third, attacking players not committing fouls when they lose the ball to stop counters, attacking players not tracking back to defend, and attacking players lacking a defensive mindset..
In those matches Arsenal
conceded 3 or
more goals.
Arsenal
conceded 1
goal more than the two teams with joint least
goals conceded.
We lack a player (s) who are determined to not
concede early, who let one
goal, two
goals even away from home in Europe and say «no
more, we'll take them in the home leg».
Add in
conceding three
goals against manu reserves and one nil up away to spurs and there are possibly three
more points.
A mistake from a central defender means that,
more often than not, his team
concedes a
goal.
«We let in some
goals we could have avoided but we'll work to ensure we don't
concede any
more like that during the season.
Yeah I'm not too worried about us scoring
goals, I'm
more worried about us
conceding.
City have
conceded fewer
goals (39) than either Liverpool or Arsenal, while scoring
more than the Gunners and as many as the Reds (75).
Liverpool have
conceded 15 away
goals in the Premier League —
more than any other team pic.twitter.com/OLmeDU 1bur
People do the Math, if Man City plays a draw and we win against Everton we will NOT be on top unless we win with
more than 7
goals and don't
concede.
that means no
more defensive midfielder, rely on Coquelin, he gets injured (inevitably), throw in Arteta, get caught in the counter,
concede a
goal, throw men forward in search for an equaliser,
concede another on the counter and loose the game.