Nah, he's overrated. Carlito has spoken.
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Another data point: http://www.thescore.com/epl/goalie_splits/shots_faced
No keeper on that entire list sees fewer shots per minute than Hugo. Unless I'm mistaken he's the only one who averages more than 10 minutes per shot.
"a touch overrated" or "Jesus Christ of goalkeeping"? Which is it?
Jesus wept, irony clearly isn't a big thing stateside.
I'm honored.
You got it I can't remember which site you remember me from - no need to mention it if you don't want to - or PM if you wantJPG?
Edit: Yep you sure are. Oh Boy this'll be fun.
I cringed during his response. "What are you doing someare?! He was being sarcastic. Nooooo you're feeding the Carl!"Jesus wept, irony clearly isn't a big thing stateside.
Fair enough. I caught the sarcasm but couldn't help myself.I cringed during his response. "What are you doing someare?! He was being sarcastic. Nooooo you're feeding the Carl!"
Another data point: http://www.thescore.com/epl/goalie_splits/shots_faced
No keeper on that entire list sees fewer shots per minute than Hugo. Unless I'm mistaken he's the only one who averages more than 10 minutes per shot.
No, it just means that if he gets steady playing time at Swansea, you should consider putting him in your fantasy team. That's all.This is telling me Gerhard Tremmel is the best Keeper in the league. The only back up keeper on this list, in a mid table side. With a considerably higher saves/90 minutes then anyone around him, much higher saves per goal, while being one of only three with less than a goal per 90. lol.
No, it just means that if he gets steady playing time at Swansea, you should consider putting him in your fantasy team. That's all.
Like I said above, saves/90 is a description of what kind of offense the side sees, not of the skills of the keeper. Teams manage a lot of shots on Swansea, for whatever reason, but they're not particularly threatening shots.
That's why I hesitate to say Lloris is an amazing keeper, because it's hard to distill his specific contributions from the data above. It does, however, put into context Carlito's sniffing about the save percentage, and that's valuable. But if you insist on seeing these statistics as solely about the goalkeeper, that's certainly your prerogative. You'd just be wrong.