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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 3 Dec 15:40
BBC Sport have a feature today asking readers to rank the 10 best centre backs in Premier League history. It`s linked to Virgil van Dijk`s recent form nullifying Mbappe and Haaland in successive games and it`s interesting to see the stats they have used to assess his career performances -
`The former Celtic player has won 148 of his 210 Premier League games for Liverpool, with his 70.5% win ratio - of centre-backs - only behind Manchester City defender John Stones and ex-Manchester United player Nemanja Vidic.
Only Vidic, Arsenal legend Tony Adams and Chelsea icon Terry have a higher clean sheet percentage than Van Dijk`s 43% at Liverpool (of players with 200 or more starts).
Van Dijk has won a higher percentage of duels and aerial duels than any other Premier League centre-back since 2006-07 (excluding those who have not been involved in many).
Of centre-backs to have played 3,500 minutes or more since January 2018, Van Dijk has been dribbled past less often per 90 minutes than anyone else. On average a player gets past him once every seven games (it has only happened 29 times).`
Incidentally, the 10 CBs they are asking to be ranked are Kompany, Vidic, Campbell, Stones, van Dijk, Adams, Ferdinand, Terry, Carvalho and Stam.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Tue 3 Dec 17:09
Tony Adams is head and shoulders above Van Dijk and the rest of those on that list. They couldn`t lace his drinks far less his boots
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 3 Dec 17:16
Which stat did you use to measure that, r-s-p? Milligrams of alcohol per millilitre of blood? 😊😊😊
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Tue 3 Dec 19:35
Quote:
wee eck, Tue 3 Dec 17:16
Which stat did you use to measure that, r-s-p? Milligrams of alcohol per millilitre of blood? 😊😊😊
If he can be better than all those guys wearing a black bin bag to sweat out a hangover in training, imagine how good he`d have been if he was trying.
Anyway. Nice to see you have a pop at someone who battled alcoholism through much of his career. Classless
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 3 Dec 19:45
I`m sorry you took it that way as that was not the intention. Your pun on `lace` wasn`t exactly blameless but that`s the politically correct world we live in. I`ve great admiration for what Tony Adams has done to overcome his problems and help others.
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Topic Originator: TAFKA_Super_Petrie
Date: Tue 3 Dec 20:37
The season with Carvalho and Terry together when Chelsea won the title under Mourinho was incredible.
15 conceeded in 38 games at that level is absolutely frightening and i think there was a run of nine consecutive league clean sheets in there as well at some point.
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