Phil Jones is Europe's best central defender aged 23 or under

Phil Jones is Europe's best central defender aged 23 or under



According to research carried out by CIES Football Observatory

1 - Phil Jones (Man Utd)

2 - Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid)

3 - Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)

=4 - Marquinhos (PSG)

=4 - Stefan de Vrij (Lazio)

6 - Tin Jedvaj (Leverkusen)

7 - Niklas Sule (Hoffenheim)

8 - Michael Keane (Burnley)

9 - Jores Okore (Aston Villa)

10 - Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Anderson.html

Michael Keane 8th!

*at pulling faces

How many games did you have to play to qualify, three?

what a superb and in depth study that must have been


Felipe and Dybala please

Originally Posted by bigMikeA

what a superb and in depth study that must have been


Felipe and Dybala please

CIES Football Observatory Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are:

Shooting: ability to take advantage of goal opportunities through accurate shooting
Chance creation: ability to put team-mates in a good position to score
Take-on: ability to create dangerous situations by successfully challenging opponents
Distribution: ability to keep a hold on the game through efficient passing
Recovery: ability to minimise goal opportunities for opponents through proficient interception
Rigour: ability to minimise goal opportunities for opponents through robust duelling

The Moneyball stats bores can all £#%&! off.

Originally Posted by forwardirektion

*at pulling faces

Jones will be making some of you eat your own faces next season.

Originally Posted by Crumps

Jones will be making some of you eat your own faces next season.

tbf that's what he appears to be trying to do to his most of the time

Originally Posted by doudou

The Moneyball stats bores can all £#%&! off.

word

Originally Posted by bigMikeA

tbf that's what he appears to be trying to do to his most of the time

That's why I posted it.

Up there with the 'Most PL goals scored by a foreigner in their debut season award' imo.

Varane all over the place at times again last night.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

Phil Jones is Europe's best central defender aged 23 or under



According to research carried out by CIES Football Observatory



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Anderson.html

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Varane all over the place at times again last night.

He makes a lot of mistakes does Varane but his ridiculous burst of pace gets him out of most them

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

He makes a lot of mistakes does Varane but his ridiculous burst of pace gets him out of most them

Not for the Morata goal. Shocking positioning.

The smiley is remarkable. What an awesome physical specimen.

Originally Posted by doudou

The Moneyball stats bores can all £#%&! off.

They can get pretty tedious. The problem with some of their reasoning is that assign and rate the criteria based on, I guess, what they think it should be.

'Rigour' ffs.

He is pretty bloody good tbf, just ridiculously clumsy and a tad injury prone

And he always looks £#%&!ed