Sarri But Not Sarri Thread

[Fernando 6,455]

Meaningless all this talk that we got lucky. 

We had a target and it was achieved. 

Job well done regardless of how we got it

 

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Now it's making that target count. If we play like we have we won't get anywhere and be back to Thursday nights. 

[Vesper 28,794]

CIES Football Observatory

n°262 - 13/05/2019

Performance

Production champions: Napoli, Olympiacos, Leeds, and who else?

http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/262/en/

Issue number 262 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the three best and worst teams per league in terms of points that they should have achieved according to their pitch production. Virtual points were projected according to a statistical model including shots taken and conceded (both on target and from the box), as well as the percentage of ball possession.

With respect to the indicators selected, Napoli and Atalanta should have achieved more points than the Italian Serie A champions Juventus. However, Massimiliano Allegri’s players were much more efficient. In the Greek top division, both Olympiacos and AEK Athens had a greater pitch production than champions PAOK. Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United tops the production rankings in the English Championship.

According to pitch production, Lucien Favre’s Borussia Dortmund should only have ranked fourth in the German Bundesliga behind Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen. The Ruhr team was thus particularly efficient. In Turkey, İstanbul Başakşehir virtually outranks Beşiktaş and Galatasaray. More data is available in the CIES Football Observatory Performance Atlas powered by InStat data.

Virtual number of points per match according to pitch production

Season 2018/19, domestic league matches until 07/05/2019

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Pizy 18,368]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Horrific, really. A match winning, world class striker would've helped so much this season.

[Superblue 6,370]

2 hours ago, Iggy Doonican said:

I've never seen a post so full of what ifs. That has to be the most meaningless stat of all time we hit the woodwork 24 times whoopie shit.

I agree about the crossbar stat being meaningless but I think the argument is everyone's complaining is all 'what ifs' and you can spin 'what ifs' anyway to suit - What if United had won more games? What if Spurs had lost less games? What if Arsenal had beaten Brighton? None of them happened and that's why they all finished below us. 

Our football hasn't been great this season and a lot of improvement is necessary. But for how bad we have been, we've still been better than all but two of the teams. 

The league table doesn't lie over a 38 game period. Every team has good performances, bad performances, good luck, bad luck, injuries, etc throughout the season and manage through that.

We're third on merit. If Spurs, Arsenal and United have been poor this season that's quite frankly nothing to do with Chelsea, and if anything says a lot about them and their own shortcomings when we all think we've been overall pretty poor this season and finished above them all. 

[Superblue 6,370]

12 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

No wins away to a top 10 team is very poor. 

Our record against the bottom half of the table is almost perfect though, which always seemed to be our achilles heel in previous years 

[Jase 43,479]

21 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

+ Only 3 away goals vs Top 10 - one due to keeper blunder and another due to deflection. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Atomiswave 6,072]

2 hours ago, Fernando said:

Meaningless all this talk that we got lucky. 

We had a target and it was achieved. 

Job well done regardless of how we got it

 

Yeah job well done but it tells not the story we all witnessed. Its like im at an exam, I have only prepared 1 certain subject well knowing I could easily draw a subject I havent prepared for. Its not sustainable and a high chance I will get fucked.We are all super content we got third, but anything else has been a horror show. The man has zero game management.

[Special Juan 27,424]

I think he's been very average and nothing about him has convinced me he is going to take us further.

It's took him nearly the full season to realise that Emerson is better than Alonso and RLC was the man to start months ago. His constant selection of Kovacic and Alonso was baffling, his timing of his substitutions when we needed something different was bizarre, and his whole game management is poor.

The football has been more like wankball than Sarriball, we have somehow fluked finishing above Spurs and scraped top 4 by our teeth. If he stays and tries to sign both GH and Kovacic he wants fucking shooting.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

 In fact, 72 points would have you fifth both last season and the one before that.

It's a bit interesting that Conte's last league campaign was considered horrific by most and yet we scored as many goals, conceded less and got almost as many points (2 less) than we did this season.

I'll ask this question to the pro-Sarri camp:

Is that record versus top 10 worthy of Chelsea? Not a single win away from home against them - three points in nine games.
Four wins at home against the top 10 which gives us a record of 4 wins out of 18 games against them.

It's absymal if you ask me

 

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

21 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

 In fact, 72 points would have you fifth both last season and the one before that.

It's a bit interesting that Conte's last league campaign was considered horrific by most and yet we scored as many goals, conceded less and got almost as many points (2 less) than we did this season.

I'll ask this question to the pro-Sarri camp:

Is that record versus top 10 worthy of Chelsea? Not a single win away from home against them - three points in nine games.
Four wins at home against the top 10 which gives us a record of 4 wins out of 18 games against them.

It's absymal if you ask me

 

Sarri is shit and needs to go. He is not good enough and never will be. He is completely out of his depth as is Marina, the rest of her muppets and half of the squad. Sarri is only the peak of the iceberg. His appointment is the result of poor of a multi-year streak of poor business and football decisions. As is the amount of power that has been amassed by certain directors in the club that has also seen a plethora of average players signed and stay here for good. 

[Atomiswave 6,072]

7 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Sarri is shit and needs to go. He is not good enough and never will be. He is completely out of his depth as is Marina, the rest of her muppets and half of the squad. Sarri is only the peak of the iceberg. His appointment is the result of poor of a multi-year streak of business and football decisions. As is the amount of power that has been amassed by certain directors in the club that has also seen a plethora of average players signed and stay here for good. 

Unbelievable isnt it......its a shitshow my man. Horrible board members, a clueless model at the helm, RA seemingly gives no fuck any more ( he always took the bull by the horns but no more ), A squad that is badly assembled, players either average or old getting bonus contracts, a manager that simply does not get Chelsea, a ban looming thanks to the idiots at helm.....you remove CL and we have nothing. Ohh and our best player leaving, our second best player in Kante have become not even a shadow of his former self. Whats not to like.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

5 hours ago, Iggy Doonican said:

I've never seen a post so full of what ifs. That has to be the most meaningless stat of all time we hit the woodwork 24 times whoopie shit.

The same logic goes to the original post. It had a lot of what ifs. Simple fact is we finished above Spurs United and Arsenal regardless of the circumstances. I was just making a point that Arsenal shouldn't feel like we stole the position from them we us had unfortunate moments which could have resulted in us getting more points

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

5 hours ago, Atomiswave said:

Sorry but our third place is so decieving its unreal. I get what you mean and I can agree to a certan extent. But we are third cuz the bottlers around us choked in the last min. The stats tell all the truth in this regard. And we always get the shaft in games, its nothing new mate.

We also bottled games, the table does not really lie if you think about it. City and pool are 25 points ahead of us. We are slightly better than Spurs due to a bigger budget and having harzard, Arsenal despite having better strikers than us are still a shambles in mid and at the back and finally United gave up on their season and are the underachievers kinda like us when we finished 10th in 2015

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

9 hours ago, Superblue_1986 said:

but I think the argument is everyone's complaining is all 'what ifs' and you can spin 'what ifs' anyway to suit - What if United had won more games? What if Spurs had lost less games? What if Arsenal had beaten Brighton? None of them happened and that's why they all finished below us.

That was my point what ifs are meaningless. If that Arsenal geezer hadn't missed that penalty against the Yids they would have finished above them he did so they didn't.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

I think he's been very average and nothing about him has convinced me he is going to take us further.

It's took him nearly the full season to realise that Emerson is better than Alonso and RLC was the man to start months ago. His constant selection of Kovacic and Alonso was baffling, his timing of his substitutions when we needed something different was bizarre, and his whole game management is poor.

The football has been more like wankball than Sarriball, we have somehow fluked finishing above Spurs and scraped top 4 by our teeth. If he stays and tries to sign both GH and Kovacic he wants fucking shooting.

The football is shite. Pass pass pass.. Goalie.. Pass pass pass. Oh they scored.. Never mind bring on a defender! He's done nothing to say he's good enough. Hasn't changed a game we've been losing as most the time we've gone on to draw or just lose.