True so what would football be without great strikers hard nosed defenders and everything in between weve got it all for you today really one would be without a car. Problem live on top skis in unstoppable form even compared to his impeccable usual level coming into this weekend hes played 14 games in all competitions finding the net in all but one of the 19 goals in total 13 of which came in the opening 9 when this League Match Day thats a record breaking stuff. These triumphs mr reliable. Were looking at his incredible october goal by go starting with much day 7 at home against hoffenheim. Trying to score. But. This one is classic leventhal ski he maintains space between himself and his mock out looking on the edge of the box his opponent can either cover him all the spice girls song a situation love and dusky exploits to steal in behind and score. Next up a trip to our book and hes at it again dont. Just talk to keep it to the start of this seems hes the Funders League is most prolific known german monks men with 215. 00 gold hes won the top scorers canon for time plus those legendary 90 minutes against the book 5 gold bull record smash. I know. Im. Just an. Impressive numbers but theyre just icing on the cake he says its all about the team. So you see ive always wanted to win with a team that most of them the best way i can help us do that is by scoring goals. Of playing with the team have to be functioning as a whole from back to front and defensive also makes winning easy for everyone. Given by and struggled to find those late wins in october but they finally managed it on monday 9 to one against one young lady with the obligatory contribution from leavened of ski. Season. The stuff that seems good to say good bye to a good. One for the archives another outright record for the project just published from. These issues i wasnt sure if that was the new. But didnt dwell on it too long a few you can get distracted during the getting news from the spin its Something Special for sure for the my woman says most is that weve got the 3 point was im going to say well im just going to come off the gold was preceded by a foot bounce when youre on a roll these things can happen. Without much and sometimes i play 12 with a teammate sometimes with an opponent i just have to try every option this time i had a bit of luck got the ball back and made the most of the opportunity. On target so its a 9 straight match days not to mention goals in europe and the cup the records continue to tumble now that the looming possibility of attacking one that stood so long its become legend said by get that way back in 19717240 goals in a single biggest legacies and. 9 goals into that Campaign Debt bomba had a grand total of 3 to his 911. 00 dubs he has seen already possibly putting him on course for a final tally closer to 50 the stuff of football fantasy not we feed in this scoring form of his life private live on top ski gold rather extraordinary. Places simply unstoppable but hes not the leagues only legendary foreign striker cloudier pizarro been one of our favorites for years. Can anyone. Fail. Both of im. Going to. Call him. From here because you know nothing like this about is he knows its open for doing. What i do and weve been here before but mainly money up it all with the little hole it was only part of and i dont know that it but i didnt know to call for you at all the end of. The peruvian prince is the oldest goal scorer in the bundesliga but his time here is drawing to a close pitch so will hang up his boots that season after 20 years in the bundesliga. It im not going to be going where you want no no no no. You know if its you know if you get that meal and you get oh no good thing with ac an hour later there you go but i always thought i know you about coming but i know. This is unbelievable he did sort of right. When he listed the german she thinks know. The stories and more success. When he won just about everything. He was on the 2013th triple winning same thing your i guess. Plans for the future soon see. No no go in oh yeah lola combat is our enemies our release story we are going to put a couple of k. 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Hes already signed in the bundesliga in 9299. 00 its hard to imagine the League Without him. That will be bizarro sized hole in our hearts next season when hes going. To spend they know this in a cup it will. Be sort of the way to go throughout it both the. Yeah. You know what i mean. The moment oh. Sure scoring goals is important but isnt it better to prevent we break down the age old debate of attack this is defense. Its the oldest debate in football the 2 ends of the pitch attack vs defense but which is more important when it comes to the big leagues the great Alex Ferguson once said that attack wins you games but defense wins you titles and its not just him off ramps else tickets the parents really wins championships but is that really true if you want to win a league title is it more important to have a rampant attack. All an impregnable defense. An unstoppable force. Or an immovable object. Im going to take a look at the stats to find out whether fergusons words of wisdom really do ring true and ask what it means for football today where else to start the with fergies old Stomping Ground the premier league. Ive looked through the last 20. To see if attack or defense was more important that each of the League Champions the numbers may surprise the former master over the last 20 seasons the champions have been the top scorers in the division 13 times while theyve had the tightest defense in the lake on 10 occasions so the best attack has led more teams to the premier league title than the best defense has in that time and theres more i looked at the number of goals scored and conceded by ear. Team in each season to give an attacking and defensive ranking for example man city scored the most goals and conceded the 2nd fewest in the premier League Last Season so they were 1st in attacking and 2nd in defending the results in the premier league there were 8 years where the champions attacking ranking was better than their defensive ranking and just 4 campaigns where it was the other way around. So maybe ferguson was having a son all the time in fact if we look at his own successes its clear that the scot really depended on his attack Manchester United won 8 in the period im looking at all under fergie i mean it wasnt going to be david moyes was it in 6 of those 8 seasons they had the best attack while they had the best defense in the league 4 times their exact outperformed their defense 4 times while the defensive ranking was higher just twice in fact ferguson want to have his League Titles with the 5th and 6th best defense in the division he had the best attack on both occasions now that i think of it fergie did love his strikers in his time Manchester United what always willing to splash out on the best attackers the likes of Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Robin Van Persie were crucial to their title victories and of course wayne rooney became one of the most Successful Premier League players of all time at old trafford. Its not just the red side of manchester where attack dominates Manchester City and won 4 premier League Titles and theyve had the best attack in the division every single time they also had the best defense in 2 of those seasons but is the attack that dominates but maybe this is just a premier league thing maybe if we look abroad the trend is reversed well certainly not in spain theres one. Word be sensibly. Has been won by the team that scored. Most goals 11 times in the last 20 seasons the team that conceded the fewest goals as prevailed 9 times the champions attacking ranking in that season has been higher than their defensive ranking 11 times and its been the other way around just 6 times perhaps this shouldnt be too surprising in an era dominated by messi and ronaldo real madrid are the perfect example of a team that needs a good at spac more than a good defense theyve had the most potent oftens in the league in 4 of this 6 title winning seasons in the last 20 years and their attack has had a higher ranking than their defense in 5 of those campaigns maybe that explains why Florentino Perez is so adamant that rail riches be spent on forwards apart from the obvious one they spent big on players like gareth bale and aiden as are in recent years you can add luka yo bitch hammers rodrigo and go to their list of expensive attacking purchases although lets be honest these sightings havent all worked out like they hoped but heres the thing about the leader and bosses of dominance skews the stats somewhat those 2 have won all but 4 of the last 20 spanish titles interestingly in those 4 seasons the champion has never had the best attack but has had the best defense on 3 occasions so basically if youre one of the spanish superclubs stack your attack and if not shut up shop there is one league where fergusons line certainly is accurate though you wont be surprised to hear that defense is up on top in italy. You want to. Turn blue. This is a very important thing the best defense in syria has won the title of. 15 times in the last 20 years and the champions defensive ranking has been better than their attacking ranking in 10 of those 20 seasons you they are the absolute kings of defending their way to the top theyve won 11 titles in that time and had the best defense in the lead in every single one of those seasons theyre attacking ranking has never outperformed their defense while the defensive ranking has been better on 6 occasions its hardly a shock that italy is the outlier here the countrys larger defensive football stretches way back to the 1960 s. Went into dominated with cats and upshaw a strategy focused on ultra solid defense from judgment of i cant see through franco berets and Paolo Maldini to georgiou killing the defenders have long been the true stars of italian football but what can we take away from these numbers of course being exceptional that either end of the pitch gives teams a huge advantage but i could have said that without spending days looking through stats what really stands out is how both attack and defense have to be functioning for most teams to win their league across the premier league syriac and the League Champions almost always rank in the top 3 for both most goals scored and fewest goals conceded in 20 years across those 3 least they have only been 3 exceptions to that rule and one of those went into one syria after eventis and milan were both points over the culture of the scandal original champions uva at the 2nd best attack and the best defense and just to back up that its a matter of being good at both ends we can take a look at the ultimate deciding factor apart from factual points goal difference over the last 20 years in england spain germany and italy 64. 00 out of 80 champions have had the best goal difference in the league. Makes sense right goal difference is basically a sign of how well a team is functioning in attack and defense if one is bringing down the other it will almost certainly be clear and it seems goal difference and that is the best indicator of league title success theres one other thing to consider with goal difference when after a long season the team simply cant be separated by points incredibly thats happened 5 times in the history of the bundesliga and every time its been the defensive record that has won the champions the title in those 5 seasons the winners never out scored their direct rivals but conceded fewer goals every single time. Like by and in the 992000 season leverkusen scored more goals than them but by and superior defense saw them play the meister shiela. One out light so this was realm of legal win in 2007 their goal difference was a full 19 goals worse than barcelonas and they had a worse attack and defense but they won the league thanks to a better head to head record against their old rivals so what does all that mean for more than coaches basically having the best attack is generally more likely to win you a league title than having the best defense but you cant just leave the back door open the defense has to provide the platform for the start tackles and if it doesnt all those goals could count for nothing and i should know im an arsenal fan and this may be why were seeing more and more clubs spending big money on big name defenders this summer source several clubs go big on beefing up their back lines mitzi is the list was arguably the hottest property of the transfer window eventually moving to new day after looking at the numbers we can see exactly why they were happy to splash the cash on another sense of that meanwhile in manchester clubs on both sides of town paid a kings ransom to defend this city handed over a huge bundle of cash to upgrade their back up right back from the nilo can stay low and united even let themselves shorten it back to ensure they could revamp their defense with Harry Maguire and am one misako then if we look to germany feinsteins up more than a 100000000 euros to add lucas the numbers and benjamin perverts of their squad for a long time defenders were undervalued in the transfer market but that is not happening anymore of course having the best of both worlds isnt just about who you buy its about how you set up to all those some coaches do go to extremes when it comes to tactics. Most of them are trying to at least make things work both ends of the pitch and there are 2 in particular who have found their own magic formula right now i want to take a look youre going club and Pep Guardiola for a moment. Theyre both known for their attacking football but in reality their approach is focussed just as much on defense lets start with his man city side have torn up defenses all over england in the last couple of years but while theyve broken records for the number of goals they scored theyve also been phenomenal in defense but if you talk about it its always about the whole good play our football playing well but they are brilliant organist they had the best defense in the league we want to go no one his 1st title in england and last season they conceded just 23 goals full year the near perfect record in both attack and defense is partly down to what the owners its called brilliant city keep the ball better than pretty much every other Team Combined with the talent of their expensive lee assembled squad that means they create more opportunities than the rest but it also means they seriously limit the number of chances their opponents have to score against them the old advantage that you cant score if you dont have the ball is particularly true with city and this isnt a new phenomenon with the i love his pastor and by and teams had the best defense in the country in all 6 of his title winning seasons in spain and germany its about coming up with a system that not only gets the balance right between attack and defense but actually might surmise his balance and what the old is not the only one of his current nemesis you can quote has his own theory about how to get the best of both worlds and right now its working pretty well the. Central defender the balls if youre going to go to the big disco ball of course. Better liverpool had the best defense in the premier League Last Season. And they look to be carrying out fine defensive form through the Current Campaign as well again pressing is often seen as a buccaneering attacking strategy and it absolutely does lead to some thrilling moments and plenty of goals but pressuring opponents into mistakes in their own half doesnt just help create opportunities it also keeps the ball of y. E from your own dangerous side if the ball is in a teams defensive 3rd a lot of things can happen a deflection or a misplaced pass can lead to chaos by pressing the opposition high up the pitch you massively reduce the chances of a freak occurrence leading to a gulp and if a team cant get out of their own half there isnt much even the best attacking players can do this is a strategy that asks a lot of the players stars like most our study on manet and reverse so fileno can simply point to that goals and assists they have to work hard in service of the guys further back to in this set up when the other team has the ball attacking players effectively become advanced defenders again its about maximizing balance of course most coaches dont have the luxury of being able to pick so many talented and athletic players the vast majority of coaches have to choose whether theyll prioritise attack or defense for those guys the numbers suggest generally that attack is a safer bet than defense when it comes to winning League Titles but as a club or showing the future for the pinnacle of football is a strategy that does bug. 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