[Albion] Worst Premier league X1 so far this season

[VAL1850]

https://www.football365.com/news/the-worst-premier-league-xi-of-the-season-so-far-2

OK it's Football 365 but Bong and Stephens make it into the eleven , agree disagree , Whoose your eleven.?

 

[Common as Mook]

Clearly written by a Palace fan as there isn't a Palace player to be seen anywhere on the list. And they've been Doggy McDogshit

 

[Simster]

Tongue in cheek article based on statistics rather than genuine performance.

That said, they clearly haven't looked at the statistic that shows our results when Stephens plays against the games when he doesn't.

As for Bong, he can be considered a weak link I suppose, and he is very mercurial.

Quite surprised not to see a single Cardiff player in there though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not even bothering to look at that shite. Bong has (I'm not even going to bother completing the sentence. For actual ****'s sake!).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The was a manager (Pardew was his name) who kept picking a greedy oaf forward over an elegant master owing to these cock eyed stats. The favoured nobber was always shooting (backpasses, that counted as shots on target) when an easy pass for a goal was on. The player given the rough end of the arrangement, benched, and eventually sold, was Bobby Zamora.

You can blow these stats (without proper analysis by people who have a brain) out your bottom.

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

The writer mentions that picking Stephens is harsh, so why do it?

 

[The_Viper]

Bong I can totally understand the argument for. Stephens is laughable.

 

[blue-shifted]

Again, I can't be bothered to open and read this but Stephens must have a pass completion rate pretty high seeing as he's not always, ahem, the most ambitious of passers. Plus you wouldn;t have to spend too much time watching football to quickly see that any stats you thought you had to make Stephens the worst CM in the the Prem are bollocks and you should start again

Bongy, well i'd be surprised if he is the worst left back in the league. Not the greatest footballer we've ever had but a rock solid defender.

 

[Stato]

I won't bother defending Dale because the accusation is just so ridiculous, but I am totally fed up with negativity, even from our own fans, about Gaeten. When will people realise that Gaeten Bong is in our side because he does not let wingers past him?

So far this season, Bong is the top left back in the league for stats on not being beaten by his man: He has been dribbled past only twice in eleven games. He is also the joint best left back for most crosses blocked:

Check out the detailed defensive stats on https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/2...erStatistics/England-Premier-League-2018-2019.

I feel safe watching Bongy playing at left back for us. Him coming into the side took us back to the days of Ward and Bridge and us having a left back who would stop crosses after a season of massive frustration watching Joe Bennett repeatedly fail to stop his man from getting the ball into the box. He doesn't have the attacking threat of Wayne Bridge, but what do you expect? He came to us on a free from a team relegated from the Championship. As has been pointed out already on here, he has a Mayo-like ability for seeing off players who were supposed to be an upgrade. He is representative of the grit and determination that has made this squad successful.

Now, if he could just start to develop the passing understanding with Jose Izquierdo that he seemed to have with Kazenga when they first started playing together...

 

[brighton_tom]

Danny Ings is on that list.... Okay i havent watched much of him this season but he has 4 goals to his name does he not?

 

[Pavilionaire]

If the article had named the Cardiff side 1 to 11 I don't think he'd have been far off.

 

[schmunk]

There's no Barndoor on the list. Ahm oot.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

I won't bother defending Dale because the accusation is just so ridiculous, but I am totally fed up with negativity, even from our own fans, about Gaeten. When will people realise that Gaeten Bong is in our side because he does not let wingers past him?

So far this season, Bong is the top left back in the league for stats on not being beaten by his man: He has been dribbled past only twice in eleven games. He is also the joint best left back for most crosses blocked:

Check out the detailed defensive stats on https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/2...erStatistics/England-Premier-League-2018-2019.

I feel safe watching Bongy playing at left back for us. Him coming into the side took us back to the days of Ward and Bridge and us having a left back who would stop crosses after a season of massive frustration watching Joe Bennett repeatedly fail to stop his man from getting the ball into the box. He doesn't have the attacking threat of Wayne Bridge, but what do you expect? He came to us on a free from a team relegated from the Championship. As has been pointed out already on here, he has a Mayo-like ability for seeing off players who were supposed to be an upgrade. He is representative of the grit and determination that has made this squad successful.

Now, if he could just start to develop the passing understanding with Jose Izquierdo that he seemed to have with Kazenga when they first started playing together...

Ask yourself why this is though? What is the tactical implication of this? And what is the knock-on effect of those tactical implications?

Bong has his place. I totally agree with that. But he also has some very severe limitations that have quite vast knock-on effects on our team tactically. Wayne Bridge he most certainly is not and he is the most obvious area for improvement in CHs first choice team.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I assume Cardiff players are not on that list because they are just meh players, so the fact they have 8 points is an achievement

 

[the right footed denilson]

Ask yourself why this is though? What is the tactical implication of this? And what is the knock-on effect of those tactical implications?

Bong has his place. I totally agree with that. But he also has some very severe limitations that have quite vast knock-on effects on our team tactically. Wayne Bridge he most certainly is not and he is the most obvious area for improvement in CHs first choice team.

Amazing to think we had Bridge in the Championship (and Ward) and now we're bumbling along with Bong.