Here we are right now statistically, and it's not so bad
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Behindthegoal
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Why aren't Leeds runaway leaders?
Because they're not fit enough to play their football for 95 minutes, hence conceding goals in the dying minutes.
Because they're not fit enough to play their football for 95 minutes, hence conceding goals in the dying minutes.
CroJack
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They are not converting their chances, which means they have poor strikers. Energetically wastful
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Victoria Swan
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Yankee_Jack
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My interpretation of those charts is that we’re hovering around the border between ok and oh shit in just about every category. And pivoting around that position is risky,
The top chart is most illustrative. It places us firmly in the BA / BD (busy attack / busy defense) quadrant. If the attack slacks, or is nullified in any way .... oh shit ... we get Stoke, we lose, we wring our hands and wonder how this is possible. It’s because when our defense is busy it only takes one little oh shit moment and we’re done. Stoke nullified our attack and bob’s your uncle etc they walk with 3 points. And, Cooper’s blank expression becomes even blanker if that’s possible because he has no answer to it.
Why are we planted in the BA / BD quadrant .... midfield not dominating is my best guess ... and as we demonstrated during our Shit Streak a confused and incoherent front line can look busy, but there’s looking busy and being busy as in delivering effective opportunities and threatening the opposition’s goal frequently. Put another way .... flattering to deceive.
The three most important factors that keep fucking us up the arse time and again are Quality, Quality, Quality. Too often recently Cooper has been making subs, not to make a tactical shift to exploit a weakness, but to overcome a paucity of quality on on our part. Compare to Potter, who would make 3, 4 or more tactical changes a game and rarely had to move to overcome a quality deficit. A quality deficit is self-defeating, it gifts the opposition an advantage.
Promotion is achievable, but we must shift our position on those charts to achieve it. Staying where we are in the BA / BD quadrant means we are carrying too much quality risk.
The top chart is most illustrative. It places us firmly in the BA / BD (busy attack / busy defense) quadrant. If the attack slacks, or is nullified in any way .... oh shit ... we get Stoke, we lose, we wring our hands and wonder how this is possible. It’s because when our defense is busy it only takes one little oh shit moment and we’re done. Stoke nullified our attack and bob’s your uncle etc they walk with 3 points. And, Cooper’s blank expression becomes even blanker if that’s possible because he has no answer to it.
Why are we planted in the BA / BD quadrant .... midfield not dominating is my best guess ... and as we demonstrated during our Shit Streak a confused and incoherent front line can look busy, but there’s looking busy and being busy as in delivering effective opportunities and threatening the opposition’s goal frequently. Put another way .... flattering to deceive.
The three most important factors that keep fucking us up the arse time and again are Quality, Quality, Quality. Too often recently Cooper has been making subs, not to make a tactical shift to exploit a weakness, but to overcome a paucity of quality on on our part. Compare to Potter, who would make 3, 4 or more tactical changes a game and rarely had to move to overcome a quality deficit. A quality deficit is self-defeating, it gifts the opposition an advantage.
Promotion is achievable, but we must shift our position on those charts to achieve it. Staying where we are in the BA / BD quadrant means we are carrying too much quality risk.
Yankee_Jack
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Victoria Swan
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Hard to justify this comment last weekend. Bringing on Roberts as an attacking winger was not an obvious choice (that would have been Kristofferson) and putting Surridge in the middle (instead of using Baston) was also not obvious and certainly not a 'good quality for poor quality' swap. Yet these two combined for the winning goal.
Our tactical failure frequently seems to be in midfield where we are too often overrun. Here Cooper hasn't got enough variety of options. It's not so much lack of quality as lack of variety - Fulton is the only one really who can put some stick about. Would have been great if we had retained Fer. Now Fulton and Fer in the midfield could really dominate when we are being overrun.
Yankee_Jack
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“Too often” is not “always”.
Victoria Swan
Key Player
True.
CroJack
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Agreed.
The charts confirm what we already know when it comes to our own performances, but these charts are interesting if we want to see where the rest of the pack is compared to us.
Busy attack
We create chances, we average a high number of shots on target, and we are clinical.
Busy defence
We allow many chances and shots against us, but we don't concede as many goals.
1. We are sloppy at passing, we give ball away in dangerous areas, we allow many crosses against us, and we don't tackle & foul. That's why we have busy defence. Sloppiness and lack of physicality.
2. We have a good goalie and we throw bodies on the line to block shots. That's why we don't concede more goals.
CroJack
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This one from Opta is even better. It's about the style of play.
Confirmed. Cardiff play the worst brand of football of all Championship teams. We are doing well.
KVetch
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Wish we still had Fer, that's a shame. I love these charts. Nice work, I'll have to see last year's and compare.