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[Football] Zaha watch - *** The SEGW finally managed to escape***
- Thread starter Sussex Nomad
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That’s why he won’t ever make it at a big club. Doesn’t have the mental strength or ability to do so.
Eh? It says Zaha has been pulled etc 387 times, Alexis Sanchez nearly 100 less. How do you get to 10?
Dave the OAP
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Cry over that zaha you hypocritical ****
I dunno about that... Hazard sulks like crazy
Dave the OAP
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That should be sent to FA/Premier league ruling committee and he should be banned. Cheating ****.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Palace fans like a petition to get players banned ( see Benteke when he wasn't their player ).
Dave the OAP
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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Shows how much players at other clubs are out to get him, Solly is clearly sliding his leg under HaHa's foot forcing him to commit the foul. Just another part of the vendetta against them.
if you watch the aftermath of that snidey assault he tries to tell the ref "I slipped, I slipped". As if the whole football world doesn't realise he has a problem standing upright
I thought it says 100x less. It actually staying he is being fouled 1more foul per game than the nearest person
dadams2k11
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That is genius.
This. Will be Albion folklore. Reduced to a gibbering, petulant wreck. Fecking hilarious
"Cry in a minute, he's gonna cry in a minute!"
I don't think he's coming back from that. Well, apart from sitting on his Roller that God bought him.
The ****.
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est retiré.
He did ever so well at the beginning when he got his name right
As Ron Manager might say..... 'oooh, lovely, isn't it?'
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Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Paul Doyle's use of statistics in this article is laughable. He argues that a stat that shows that Zaha wins more fouls than anyone except Hazard proves that he does not dive, never pausing to consider that someone who was successful at simulating being fouled, would be likely to have a record of being fouled more than other players. It is a circular argument that proves nothing.
If he was to look deeper: https://en.as.com/resultados/futbol/inglaterra/2018_2019/ranking/jugadores/ he could see that Hazard and Zaha are also top of the stats for most dribbles, suggesting that they are two of the players in the league who are likely to be tackled most often. If you are tackled more often than other players and the percentage of tackles that are given as a foul is fairly constant, you would be fouled more often than most players. This does not mean that you are being targeted, just that you are fouled more, because you are tackled more.
Doyle could have then looked closer at stats like crosses into the box, good crosses, shots on target or dangerous passes and seen that Zaha is nowhere near the top of the list for any of these. This fact, allied with Milivojevic being top on penalties scored and direct free kicks on target could point to the possibility that Palace get more success from Zaha winning fouls than from what he can do when he is not fouled. This could suggest that Palace are using Zaha to win fouls.
It would seem to me that, more often than most players, Zaha wants to draw defenders into a challenge. If he can get a contact he is going to go down. This is not necessarily diving, but it is playing for the foul. Supporters are not mugs and recognise this when it happens. We at Brighton spent years watching Kazenga do it. We also see Glenn Murray do it regularly. The difference between Murray and Zaha is that Murray takes the hit that he has drawn the defender into, gets up and carries on, pleased that he has won his team an advantage. Zaha draws defenders into fouls and then complains to the ref or the media that he has been fouled and should be protected.
Fans may be partisan, but they are not the utterly dishonest herd that Doyle represents them as. They are not booing Zaha for diving whilst secretly knowing that he has been fouled, they are booing him because they have watched enough football to know that he wanted to be fouled, but is not honest enough to admit it.
He is also not helped by the Palace fans. We cheered every time Lua Lua relieved pressure on our defence close to the end of a game by drawing the tackle and going over the defender's leg. Zaha's fans instead join him in fake indignation that he has been cruelly cut down by evil defenders, wringing their hands for the plight of the artist in a game full of agriculturalists, all the while thinking to themselves 'Come on Luka, now's our chance.'