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Tactics Pre Assist

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They’re called ‘goal involvements’ these days.

The pre-assist stat was invented to explain Modric’s lack of goals and assists, yet it was felt he must be contributing something useful.

That broke down with Dembele, whose pre-pre assists had to be tallied to make sense of the man, and then the general ‘goal involvement’ stat. This was then made ridiculous because all Man City players - even their subs and goalies - always scored over 100 per season so long as they travelled on the same team bus.
 
I mean there is also GCA and SCA metrics that Kane is 4th and 3rd in for our club but I’m sure Sammy refuses to believe those stats are real either.
 
Some people who understand football rely on their own eyes to judge a good footballer, rather than blindly citing partially relevant stats to justify their incorrect opinion
 
Some people who understand football rely on their own eyes to judge a good footballer, rather than blindly citing partially relevant stats to justify their incorrect opinion
You need both. You can understand football but still miss things players do. We watch as fans, I doubt most fans rewatch full matches over and over catching every little thing a player does. That’s the coaches job.

If you’re watching Kane under Conte and still trying to say he’s shit because he’s not hanging in 3 goals a game. You don’t know football.
 
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