Wigan six clean sheets in a row

Callumcafc

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

killerandflash

Callumcafc said:

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

Weird for a team to fail to score in 4 of the 6 games, but hit 3 and 4 goals in the other 2 games. If they had spread the goals around, they would have had 7 1-0 wins!

sam3110

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

Weird for a team to fail to score in 4 of the 6 games, but hit 3 and 4 goals in the other 2 games. If they had spread the goals around, they would have had 7 1-0 wins!

And GolfLatic of WiganLife would still be moaning ;⁠)

mascot88

Never liked Wigan - not even for 10 minutes 

Scoham

sam3110 said:

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

Weird for a team to fail to score in 4 of the 6 games, but hit 3 and 4 goals in the other 2 games. If they had spread the goals around, they would have had 7 1-0 wins!

And GolfLatic of WiganLife would still be moaning ;⁠)

To be fair he’s not wrong that 4 wins and 2 defeats is better than 2 wins and 4 draws

Chris_from_Sidcup

Not often you'll see a team with the best defensive record in the division sat in 15th.

Lincsaddick

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Not often you'll see a team with the best defensive record in the division sat in 15th.

shows what a topsy turvy league this is

iaitch

At my age it would be lovely to keep clean sheets.

North Lower Neil

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

Weird for a team to fail to score in 4 of the 6 games, but hit 3 and 4 goals in the other 2 games. If they had spread the goals around, they would have had 7 1-0 wins!

Which would have been very impressive in 6 games.

swords_alive

Statistically shown that most runs end at 6 or 7, which is of particular interest to some gamblers. Two runs are in play here of course, the unbeaten run and not conceding.
Wigan's next games are Tuesday at Carlisle in the EFL Trophy (Carlisle are 15/8), then Cambridge away, on 19th October, which will be their 7th league fixture in the run. Then it's home to Mansfield on 22nd October.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/sep/23/sport.comment

fenaddick

Next 2 games you'd expect them to win too. Carlisle the division below and Cambridge have been abject in the league, they've scored 6 goals all season and only have 1 point. Mansfield will be a tough test though

iaitch

swords_alive said:

Statistically shown that most runs end at 6 or 7, which is of particular interest to some gamblers. Two runs are in play here of course, the unbeaten run and not conceding.
Wigan's next games are Tuesday at Carlisle in the EFL Trophy (Carlisle are 15/8), then Cambridge away, on 19th October, which will be their 7th league fixture in the run. Then it's home to Mansfield on 22nd October.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/sep/23/sport.comment

Apart from Huddersfield.

Off_it

Scoham said:

sam3110 said:

killerandflash said:

Callumcafc said:

Found their recent results interesting. Not often a team will go six unbeaten while failing to score four times during that same run.

0-0 v Stockport
3-0 v Peterborough
0-0 v Exeter
0-0 v Stevenage
0-0 v Lincoln
4-0 v Bristol Rovers

Weird for a team to fail to score in 4 of the 6 games, but hit 3 and 4 goals in the other 2 games. If they had spread the goals around, they would have had 7 1-0 wins!

And GolfLatic of WiganLife would still be moaning ;⁠)

To be fair he’s not wrong that 4 wins and 2 defeats is better than 2 wins and 4 draws

Absolutely it's better in terms of the points total.

But it doesn't really work like that in real life, does it? I mean, if you're drawing a game 1-1 with 10 mins to go then you could go all gung-ho kamikaze for the win as that will get you 3 points rather than 1. But that could leave you open and you end up getting picked off, lose the game and get 0 points instead.

Fast forward to the following week and you're in the same position and the exact same thing happens and you turn 1 point into 0 points. And the next week, and the next. 

Yes, you might end up turning 1 point into 3 every so often, but just because you fcuked it up last week doesn't mean you're less likely to fuck it up this week. Or the week after. Or the week after that. 

Just ask Ossie Ardiles.