Kitching and Thomas (8 Viewers)

[Mucca Mad Boys]

In fairness, you look at Kitching's defensive stats and they're very middling relative to the division, but on the ball he's having a strong season. Thomas' numbers are worse than Kitching's in both respects. Both are posting ridiculous numbers for their shooting.

It tells me that the overall good defensive numbers come from the collective rather than those two specifically. And I say that as a fan of both players. In fact, the individual defensive stats for the first choice back 4 are all average or worse. What's helping is we have one of the best performing keepers in the league and the best defensive midfielder in the league sitting in front of the defence.

Bobby Thomas - stats, career and market value

Bobby Thomas, Team: Coventry City, Age: 24, Country: England, Height: 186 cm, Preferred foot: Right, Shirt: 4, Market value: €4.1M

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Liam Kitching - stats, career and market value

Liam Kitching, Team: Coventry City, Age: 26, Country: England, Height: 190 cm, Preferred foot: Left, Shirt: 15, Market value: €5.2M

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Of course it’s collective.

Wha metrics are we using exactly and I’m also interested in whether or not those stats are correlated with general league performance. For example, there’s been many games where we’ve had 60% possession and more so haven’t really defended in games.

 

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[Ian1779]

Kitching to me has a similar style to Maguire

When we played Man Utd in the SF he was their best player by a mile.

 

[SwanLane]

When we played Man Utd in the SF he was their best player by a mile.

Agreed. He basically ran the game in the first half from CB

 

[SwanLane]

Kitch does remind me a bit of Maguire. In a positive way. He’s faster but not utterly dominant in the air like Maguire usually is.