Table Tuesday: This is why we don’t have nice things
By: Ian Rose | June 9th, 2009The positions of goalkeeper and defender can be thankless and difficult ones, and it’s hard to imagine a more frustrated group than the solid defensive core of a football team with no offense to speak of. That hard-won clean sheet doesn’t seem so bright and shiny when all it gets you is a point. So, for our inaugural Table Tuesday, here are the most frustrated defenses in the Premiership, measured by points per clean sheet.
As you can plainly see, a Manchester defender is a happy defender, with City going perfect in their nine shutouts, and United astoundingly dropping only six points in their 24 clean sheets. Newcastle, surprisingly to no one, tops the frustration table. More surprising is Hull, who only dropped four points in shutouts, though admittedly they only had six of them overall. Friendly advice to the Tigers : buy at the back.
Data source: Soccerbase
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Thats quite interesting. I remember earlier in the season, Manchester City had not played a game whereby both teams had scored, so it was either they kept a clean sheet, or their opponents did. Judging by your table, every game they won, they didnt concede, which is amazing really.
In my opinion, the table should be upside down so that the frustrated defences are where they should be…at the bottom
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Drabik – I went back and forth about the order, but I decided that since I was talking about something negative, the worst should be up top.
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ian, you’re my hero
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