Return of the Top Defenses of the Top 5 Leagues 2012-2013 (stats)

I think Bayern with Neuer might have a good run again, too. Dortmund and M'gladbach will likely get their stats ruined in the CL, and Schalke only rise high in the tables as they simply score sufficiently more than they get in, same as Hannover in the EL.

Iker >>>>

Bundesiga has only 34 games so it should be compared with other 18 team leagues statistically

Adit wrote:Bundesiga has only 34 games so it should be compared with other 18 team leagues statistically

If you calculate a quotient, the numbers are per match based. I just write down the absolute numbers to have a better overview from which to calculate the quotient later. For better reference you might want to check the 2011/12 data.

I updated the first post with the data of the midweek league matches.

Here's the goalkeeper of Europe's current top defense: Fabian Giefer of Bundesliga newcomer Fortuna Düsseldorf, who managed to keep 5 consecutive clean sheets together with his defense line consisting of Tobias Levels, Stelios Malezas, Jens Langeneke, and Johannes van den Bergh.

Fabian Giefer turned down an offer from Bayern München before the begin of the season as he preferred to have the chance to get a starting spot in a smaller club to being the Nr.2 of one of the Bundesliga top addresses.


Fabian Giefer (22), former Germany U20 international

Imagine what we could have achieved with Bould at the helm all those years ago

Fortuna Dusseldorf Kruse

Robbie Kruse is actually a striker - but then, a good defense starts with the attack line

rwo power wrote:Robbie Kruse is actually a striker - but then, a good defense starts with the attack line

i know, but he's Australian so for Fortuna

So. I updated the top defenses as of now. There are two more matches tomorrow where it will be decided whether Mallorca and West Ham will stay in the list, but for now the overview has some new names among rather few of the usual suspects.

From the BL, both Borussia Dortmund (8 goals against in 6 matches) and Borussia M'Gladbach (12 GA) catapulted themselves far out of the competition so far. But also ManUtd (9 GA) and ManCity (8 GA) don't look as convincing as last season.

Chelsea returning to one of the best defencive sides in Europe.

We got Batman, beat that...

i have never seen a goalkeeper receive a 5 star rating on lol until this weekend

adler

Adler was indeed amazing in that match. Looks like he wants to give Manuel Neuer a run for his money in the NT after all.

Adler.. Weren't him and Neuer not on par not so long ago?

Yohan Modric wrote:Adler.. Weren't him and Neuer not on par not so long ago?

yup but he had a head injury IIRC

Yohan Modric wrote:Adler.. Weren't him and Neuer not on par not so long ago?

Well, René Adler's NT career was severaly marred by his injuries and less by other issues. He should have been the Nr.1 of the U21 NT in 2006, but had to withdraw due to an injury (hair fracture of a rib) in favour of Michael Rensing.

In 2010 he was supposed to be Germany's Nr.1 after Robert Enke's death, but again he got injured (another rib injury) short before the tournament (in May 2010), and Manuel Neuer took over.

In 2011, he again had to undergo surgery (this time the patellar tendon), and there he lost his Nr.1 spot in Leverkusen to Bernd Leno.

I really hope that he will finally stay injury-free for a longer time!

Yohan Modric wrote:Adler.. Weren't him and Neuer not on par not so long ago?

Oh, by the way, Manuel Neuer just stated that he thinks that René Adler can very well return to the NT and somehow my impression wasn't that he would begrudge him that.

http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/dfb-tor-neuer-traut-adler-rueckkehr-in-nationalmannschaft-zu-/news/anzeigen_102455.html

Well Adler was #1 and just for the record I think Reneé Adler is one of the sexiest names in football

I updated up to 18:00 (GMT+2) now. I'm curious how Arsenal will do in the upcoming match.

Malaga 2 goals conceded.

Facing Atletico next though.

la bestia negra wrote:i have never seen a goalkeeper receive a 5 star rating on lol until this weekend

adler

Benaglio got one vs Bayern iirc

Update with the matches of today. Stoke only let in 5 goals so far!

BTW, I decided to put the data into a proper spreadsheet after all. Here's the current table (red: Champions, black CL teams, purple EL teams and green clubs that are not active in Europe but still interesting)

Spoiler:

Bayern

The Messiah wrote:Bayern

Did I ever tell you that you look like M'vila?

Arquitecto wrote:

The Messiah wrote:Bayern

Did I ever tell you that you look like M'vila?

Nah, he wish he's as good looking as me. Not even close, body wise or facial appearance