Ross Barkley

[Vesper 30,119]

Matt Law's Chelsea briefing

The stats that prove Barclay's importance By Matt Law Football News Correspondent

Hazard and Barkley celebrate Chelsea's third goal against Huddersfield (credit: Getty)

It is just over a year since Ross Barkley made his Premier League debut for Chelsea in a 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth. Barkley was easing his way back to fitness after six months out through injury and, having suffered a slight setback, he had to wait until May for his next League start against Newcastle United, which ended in another 3-0 defeat. The critics were already preparing themselves to write off Barkley’s Chelsea career, but, since regaining full fitness over the pre-season, he has undoubtedly been one of the success stories of this campaign to date. Barkley ran the game against Huddersfield Town after being restored to Maurizio Sarri’s starting line-up and it was the 10th Premier League match Chelsea have won in which the midfielder has started since his debut on January 31, 2018. In fact, Chelsea’s League win percentage when Barkley starts stands at an impressive 70 per cent, in comparison to just 48.3 per cent when he is left out. The Blues average 2.2 goals a game with him in the team and 1.4 goals when he is watching from the substitutes’ bench. Former head coach Antonio Conte described Barkley as a “complete player”after Chelsea had signed him for just £15 million from Everton and the statistics would seem to back that view. Other than being more dangerous in an attacking sense with Barkley in the team, Chelsea are also better at the back. They have conceded an average of 0.9 goals in the League games in which he has started and 1.2 in those he has not. Perhaps most impressively, Barkley has also covered more ground in the games he has started than any of his team-mates – including N’Golo Kante. He has clocked up an average of 12.44 kilometres per 90 minutes, in comparison to Jorginho’s 12.01 and Kante’s 11.87. Mateo Kovacic, who has started in front of Barkley on a number of occasions is not in the top five according to the statistics provided to us by Opta. Barkley provided an assist for Eden Hazard’s second goal against Huddersfield, which was his fourth of the season and puts him only behind the Belgian in that particular category for the season. Whether or not he is benefitting from his assists, Hazard performs better with Barkley in the team behind him. In the six Premier League matches the pair have started, Chelsea’s star man has scored three times, averaging 0.5 goals a game. Without Barkley, Hazard’s average drops to 0.48. No wonder those above Sarri at Chelsea consider Barkley to be a genuine bargain.     no link, it is only via email and I am only posting it for discussion, not saying this is my stance

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

Matt Law's Chelsea briefing

The stats that prove Barclay's importance By Matt Law Football News Correspondent

Hazard and Barkley celebrate Chelsea's third goal against Huddersfield (credit: Getty)

It is just over a year since Ross Barkley made his Premier League debut for Chelsea in a 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth. Barkley was easing his way back to fitness after six months out through injury and, having suffered a slight setback, he had to wait until May for his next League start against Newcastle United, which ended in another 3-0 defeat. The critics were already preparing themselves to write off Barkley’s Chelsea career, but, since regaining full fitness over the pre-season, he has undoubtedly been one of the success stories of this campaign to date. Barkley ran the game against Huddersfield Town after being restored to Maurizio Sarri’s starting line-up and it was the 10th Premier League match Chelsea have won in which the midfielder has started since his debut on January 31, 2018. In fact, Chelsea’s League win percentage when Barkley starts stands at an impressive 70 per cent, in comparison to just 48.3 per cent when he is left out. The Blues average 2.2 goals a game with him in the team and 1.4 goals when he is watching from the substitutes’ bench. Former head coach Antonio Conte described Barkley as a “complete player”after Chelsea had signed him for just £15 million from Everton and the statistics would seem to back that view. Other than being more dangerous in an attacking sense with Barkley in the team, Chelsea are also better at the back. They have conceded an average of 0.9 goals in the League games in which he has started and 1.2 in those he has not. Perhaps most impressively, Barkley has also covered more ground in the games he has started than any of his team-mates – including N’Golo Kante. He has clocked up an average of 12.44 kilometres per 90 minutes, in comparison to Jorginho’s 12.01 and Kante’s 11.87. Mateo Kovacic, who has started in front of Barkley on a number of occasions is not in the top five according to the statistics provided to us by Opta. Barkley provided an assist for Eden Hazard’s second goal against Huddersfield, which was his fourth of the season and puts him only behind the Belgian in that particular category for the season. Whether or not he is benefitting from his assists, Hazard performs better with Barkley in the team behind him. In the six Premier League matches the pair have started, Chelsea’s star man has scored three times, averaging 0.5 goals a game. Without Barkley, Hazard’s average drops to 0.48. No wonder those above Sarri at Chelsea consider Barkley to be a genuine bargain.     no link, it is only via email and I am only posting it for discussion, not saying this is my stance

I think if he was to start scoring/assisting then we can really say he is important and a true bargain. He has got plenty to offer but fitness is a big issue in his career so far.

Hes looked better here so perhaps his move and how we prepare players helps too but I want to see more, I want to see the same sort of dynamic, aggressive performances he was churning out under Martinez in his breakthrough and at times under Koeman after a tough start. I think hes more an 8 than a pure 10, you can see his research if youll call it that on Sarri's Napoli and Maurizio's coaching was helping him understand when to be more creative, when to be more conservative, how to always be open to receive the ball. Hes more involved in the middle third of the pitch than he was at Everton. When we struggled, he looked a bit out of sorts but he has shown a lot of promise this season in patches.

[manpe 10,861]

This guy is painfully average, he offers jack shit on either end ever since his purple patch in October or whenever. Are RLC and Kovacic injured or why are they not playing ahead of him?

[Special Juan 28,133]

2 minutes ago, manpe said:

This guy is painfully average, he offers jack shit on either end ever since his purple patch in October or whenever. Are RLC and Kovacic injured or why are they not playing ahead of him?

RLC has been injured but the problem for me with Kovacic is I am not really sure what he actually does. Yeah, hes decent on the ball, but he doesn't offer goals, he does the odd little flashy thing but that's it.

Barkley is just one of those little niggling headaches that doesn't get any better and is annoying as fuck.

[Unionjack 7,531]

37 minutes ago, manpe said:

This guy is painfully average, he offers jack shit on either end ever since his purple patch in October or whenever. Are RLC and Kovacic injured or why are they not playing ahead of him?

Barkley was fighting Alonso for who was the village idiot on Sunday! They shuld both get their marching orders ASAP

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

2 hours ago, Unionjack said:

Barkley was fighting Alonso for who was the village idiot on Sunday! They shuld both get their marching orders ASAP

Tbf everyone played piss poor. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

14 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Tbf everyone played piss poor. 

Every soddin single one of them needed to be named and shamed!

See if Eden would give his 'I don't care, I thought I played good" speech.

An old Chelsea lad kinda sums them up

 

 

[lucio 5,418]

pub standard

[NikkiCFC 8,300]

Shocking.

[Special Juan 28,133]

Him and Kovacic are both absolute shite.

[Vesper 30,119]

2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Him and Kovacic are both absolute shite.

wait till Real tries to ram Kovacic plus £40m or £50m cash down our throats for Hazard and calls it a £100m offer

[lucio 5,418]

4 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Him and Kovacic are both absolute shite.

I think kovacic is quality, just can't do a lot in this joke of a system, reckon he'd be class if we were still a counter attacking team, we got a glimpse of that vs liverpool for the opening goal

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

wait till Real tries to ram Kovacic plus £40m or £50m cash down our throats for Hazard and calls it a £100m offer

They will surely do that but in truth Kovacic is just the ball hog version of Barkley with even less output. 

10 minutes ago, lucio said:

I think kovacic is quality, just can't do a lot in this joke of a system, reckon he'd be class if we were still a counter attacking team, we got a glimpse of that vs liverpool for the opening goal

He has played at Inter, Real and Croatia in various systems and never really established himself. He has always been the level he is now. Nice floating movement and good dribbling skills and that's it. I don't think he will ever become better. Even at Real who I consider one of the great counter attacking teams 2014-2017 he could not really get his mark, even though he always showed glimpses and can break free with his close control he usually misplaces the pass. It is like Willian. He too on paper is the perfect counter attacking player but just cant make a pass or decision to back up his running. Two of the greatest counter attacking players I have ever seen are Lampard and Ramires. Even if the one did not have the pace and the other one not the skill of Willian and Kovacic, they were absolutely deadly because they always made their mind up early and even at full sprint had the composure and concentration the apply the final pass or finish. 

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On 2/19/2019 at 11:01 PM, lucio said:

I think kovacic is quality, just can't do a lot in this joke of a system, reckon he'd be class if we were still a counter attacking team, we got a glimpse of that vs liverpool for the opening goal

 We won't sign him if we are still a counter attacking team. We will play bakayoko and Kante.