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Statistically Danny Rose was Spurs best defender

Some like them and some don't, but some statistics can be quite revealing so I've produced a few for you to muse over and draw your own opinions.


Spurs injuries
  • Tottenham have had more injuries than any other side in the Premier League last season with 45 main injuries according to physio room.

That statistic is hardly a surprise to Spurs fans, but with the muscle injury prevention training that Mauricio Pochettino does before every session, hopefully we will reduce the number of pulled hamstrings we get, especially that Aaron Lennon gets!

Fouls
  •  411 fouls against us, committed 403

Statistics to show where Spurs goals came from in the Premier League

  • Spurs scored 45 goals from inside the area
  • Spurs scored 10 goals from outside the area
  • Spurs scored 6 goals crossed from free-kicks
  • Spurs scored 2 goals direct from free-kicks
  • Spurs scored 2 goals from corners
  • Spurs scored 55 goals from 587 shots - a goal every 10.67 shots (Southampton 54 goals from 534 shots)
  • Spurs scored 17 left footed goals
  • Spurs scored 30 right footed goals
  • Spurs scored 6 headed goals

Statistics to show Spurs main goalscorers - total goals scored 91 in 54 matches in all competitions
  • Jermain Defoe (10) scored a goal every 117 minutes
  • Emmanuel Adebayor (14) scored a goal every 154 minutes
  • Harry Kane (4) scored a goal every 200 minutes
  • Roberto Solado (11) scored a goal every 227 minutes
  • Christian Eriksen (10) scored a goal every 260 minutes
  • Gylfi Sigurdsson (6) scored a goal every 346 minutes
  • Paulinho (8) scored a goal every 359 minutes
  • Nacer Chadli (5) scored a goal every 385 minutes
 

Statistics that show Spurs shot performance in the Premier League

  • Spurs had 46% shot accuracy
  • Spurs had 289 shots from inside the area (45 goals) = 1 goal every 6.62 shots
  • Spurs had 298 shots from outside the area (10 goals) = 1 goal every 29.8 shots

Statistics that show Spurs defensively in the Premier League

  • 559 interceptions
  • 81 blocks
  • 1045 clearances
  • 33 defensive errors
  • 21 errors led to a goal (Southampton 11, Arsenal 10, Chelsea 4, Everton 6)
Hardly any surprise that we had so many more defensive errors than other sides with a weak midfield most of the season.

When the midfield doesn't perform the pressure is on the defence more than it should be and when some of the defence are just going through the motions it exacerbates the problem.

The final set of statistics are quite revealing here though.

A look at the defenders and how many minutes they played divided by the number on goals conceded while they were on the pitch produces these results.


Statistics that show how our keeper performed in the Premier League

  • 14 clean sheets
  • 88 saves
  • 1.83 saves per goal
  • 53% keeper distribution accuracy
  • 38m keeper distribution length
  • 38 punches
  • 103 catches
  • Spurs conceded a goal every 58 minutes

Statistics to show players minutes played and number of starts

Hugo Lloris 4,050 - 45
Michael Dawson 3,464 - 37
Kyle Walker 2,990 - 34
Paulinho 2,868 - 33
Mousa Dembele 2,827 - 33
Jan Vertonghen 2.826 - 31
Kyle Naughton 2,801 - 31
Aaron Lennon 2,641 - 31
Christian Eriksen 2,596 - 29
Roberto Soldado 2,494 - 29
Danny Rose 2,420 - 29
Emmanuel Adebayor 2.156 - 24
Gylfi Sigurdsson 2,074 - 24
Vlad Chiriches 2,004 - 22
Nacer Chadli 1,924 - 19
Andros Townsend 1,838 - 20
Younes Kaboul 1,584 - 18
Sandro 1.511 - 18
Nabil Bentaleb 1.361 - 14
Etiene Capoue 1,194 - 14
Jermain Defoe 1,173 - 11
Lewis Holtby 1,024 - 11
Zeki Fryers 1,015 - 10
Erik Lamela - 941 - 10
Brad Friedel 840 - 9
Harry Kane 798 - 8
Tom Carroll 109 - 1
Ryan Fredericks 45 - 0
Shaquile Coulthirst 12 - 0
Milos Veljkovic 30 - 0
Alex Pritchard 7 - 0

Danny Rose Statistically Best
Right now we come to some statistics to measure our defenders in a basic way.

I’ve taken their time on the pitch and divided it by the goals conceded while they were playing to get an average time it took us to concede a goal (Includes penalties given away for which the player was sent off).

Top Defenders - Premier League Only
  1. Danny Rose 28 goals in 2661 mins = goal every 95.03 mins
  2. Jan Vertonghen 24 goals in 2094 mins = goal every 87.25 mins
  3. Zeki Fryers 6 goals in 488 mins = goal every 81.33mins
  4. Michael Dawson 40 goals in 2928 mins = goal every 73.20 mins
  5. Vlad Chiriches 26 goals in 1864 mins = goal every 71.69 mins
  6. Kyle Naughton 29 goal every 1929 mins = goal every 66.51 mins
  7. Kyle Walker 39 goals in 2568 mins = goal every 65.85 mins
  8. Younes Kaboul 25 goals in 1308 mins = goal every 52.32 mins

Defensive Midfield - Premier League Only

1. Etiene Capoue 12 goal in 1135 mins = goal every 94.58 mins
2. Sandro 16 goals in 1439 mins = goal every 89.94 mins
3. Nabil Bentaleb 20 goals in 1157 mins = goal every 41.32 mins




4 comments

  1. Stats r bogus danny rose the best defender bwhahahah
  2. Sigh.

    Though interesting this does not prove that Danny Rose was the best defender at all - it shows that the impact of not having Rose was higher than any other defender.

    It suggests that the team may have been better with Danny Rose in it - which more likely suggests that the team was a lot worse with Vertonghen at left back than at CB, or that the gap between Rose and Narughton/Fryers is quite large.

    Pieces like this undermine statistical analysis in football - you cannot view individual statistics like these in isolation. (e.g. most successful passes in the league this year was almost certainly a Centre Back)
  3. Also it doesn't take into account the opposition they played against - Kaboul came back from injury against both Man City and Chelsea, and was awful (cos, you know, he was injured/unfit). His minutes will be disproportionately against top 6 sides, giving it a skew.
  4. It is an example that you can use statistics to show whatever you like, but it's false to say i'll use some statictics and not others, if you are going to use them use them all.