Huddersfield won the championship playoffs without scoring a goal didn't they? When Wagner (was that his name) was manager? They won the semi with an own goal and the final on pens I think. So, in summary, clean sheets win playoffs, which will be good news to P*rker 😂🤣
I've banged on about it long enough & now there's your proof. 24 clean sheets this season & just done 12 games in a row without conceding.
But they aren't top & imo wont get automatic promotion.
So, can we agree that scoring goals does actually matter. (6 of their last 12 games have been 0-0 draws).
I don’t know why I’m bothering as you clearly will never have the capacity to understand a very simple matter, but obviously a successful team needs to score goals AND concede as few as possible.
If it was just about scoring goals why are Norwich 12th having scored the 2nd highest goals in The Championship.
Successful teams more often than not are built on solid foundations and by conceding minimal goals.
The vast majority understand this and for someone who claims to always be right (hilarious) surely even you could try harder to understand this most simple matter?
Isn’t 3-2 better than 1-0 for your gd as in if gd is level goals scored then counts
I haven’t read the full thread to understand the full context of the question, but 3-2 is better for your goal difference in one game. It’s not sustainable if you have to score 3 goals per game to win over the course of the season, though.
I can’t remember off the top of my head when/where I heard this and I’m too lazy to google, but I heard the average goals per game in the EFL is usually around 1.96.
So although Callum was being facetious, over the course of the season the team who has the closest average scoreline to 2-0 will likely win the league.
Burnley will be setting all sorts of records this season. Conceding just 9 goals in 33 games is ridiculous especially when one considers that Chelsea hold the record with 15 goals and that in a 38 match season. The other head scratcher is that 14 of the 39 goals they've scored have come in three matches (two of which were the opening games of the season) and that they've only found the back of the net 25 times in those other 30 games.
Burnley are currently four points behind Leeds (who have a game in hand) and five behind Sheffield United (same number of games and they have to go to Burnley). I think Parker would be a fool not to recognise that they are already in the play offs (18 points clear of 7th) and that if he wants them to make automatic promotion then it's time to be more expansive in the vast majority of their remaining matches.
Burnley beat Wednesday 4-0 tonight so perhaps the handbrake has now been released. That's 12 Championship clean sheets on the trot and over 18 hours since they conceded a goal. The record for the season for goals conceded in the Championship is 30 so Burnley can afford to let in 20 in their final 12 games and still beat that record. They certainly aren't out of the automatics either especially as the two teams above them meet on Monday so one or both have to drop points.
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If it was just about scoring goals why are Norwich 12th having scored the 2nd highest goals in The Championship.
Successful teams more often than not are built on solid foundations and by conceding minimal goals.
The vast majority understand this and for someone who claims to always be right (hilarious) surely even you could try harder to understand this most simple matter?
This renders the discussion invalid.
Sorry.
Stopped listening to the bloke after that particular pearler.
I can’t remember off the top of my head when/where I heard this and I’m too lazy to google, but I heard the average goals per game in the EFL is usually around 1.96.
So although Callum was being facetious, over the course of the season the team who has the closest average scoreline to 2-0 will likely win the league.
Which probably answers Golfie’s thread title too.