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Would you rather score or not concede? It's a valid question in most sports but none more so than the low-scoring world of professional soccer. It was a question put to former Ipswich Town and -Leicester City striker James Scowcroft when he took part in a recent UEFA A Licence course at St George's Park.


It's a question that seems to ask whether your coaching philosophy is going out to win or going out not to lose. But appearances can be deceptive. Scowcroft Heren Air Max 97 KPU TPU Zwart Goud Kopen , in his column for Manchester United fanzine United We Stand, -reveals that, statistically, it has been proven that the guarantee of scoring a goal in a match is worth 0.98 points but a clean sheet is worth 1.78 points per game. If you want to win then you need to stop the opposition from scoring.


With that one statistic in mind, it's obvious what clubs should be prioritizing. Few do. A quick glance at the most expensive transfers in the game shows -David Luiz sneak in at 10th spot as the only defender in the top 10 and, ironically Heren Air Max 97 KPU TPU Blauw Rood Kopen , he has been regularly lambasted for his defensive inadequacies. Of the 100 biggest transfers, only 12 defenders and a single keeper are on the list and some of those may be more reflective of the -recent inefficiencies of an inflated -transfer market rather than actual worth.


It's obvious that defenders are -criminally undervalued in market terms when a decent manager could secure a top-class back four, plus a keeper, for the price of a single attacker. It's also -apparent that there is institutionalized bias in favor of attacking players. How else can you explain the fact that Fabio Cannavaro, back in 2006, is the only defender to have ever won the FIFA World Player of the YearFIFA Ballon d'Or?


Data analysis Heren Air Max 97 KPU TPU Zwart Wit Kopen , so prevalent in baseball, is still new in soccer. The game does not yet know what it should be measuring and until it does, and someone succeeds using that, long-standing assumptions will continue to rule soccer. In England there remains a suspicion of defenders that don't come off the pitch muddied, bloodied and bruised. Those in the game just don't associate clean shorts with clean sheets.


Strikers might sell shirts and season tickets but a forward-thinking club has the chance to succeed by looking backwards. Cross your fingers that it's your side who make the case for the defense.

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