- Jan 20, 2006
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Why people are talking about Zokora when we have such a poor goal keeper is a joke. Zokora is a fine player and does his job in the team, I only wish for others to do theirs.
Over Keane? Hmmm.. no thanks.You lack brains. He could be given the penalty taking job. What the fuck are you gonna do ?
same could be said against jenas and his "Covering the pitch" crap thats why stats are a big pile of poo :up:
PPM Passes per min = Highest score best
SP% Successful passes and rate = Highest score best
Min PerTackle = Lowest score best
----------------Min------AP(PPM)--SP(%)------T(MPT)
Zokora---------373------270(0.72)--232(90)------17(21.9)
Gerrard---------473------260(0.54)--203(78)-----17(27.8)
Alonso----------438------265(0.60)--206(77)-----16((27.3)
ReoCoker--------540-----207(0.38)--163(79)------40(13.5)
Dunn------------543-----240(0.44)--176(73)------23(23.6)
McCann---------519-----166(0.31)--122(73)------2(20.76)
Carsley---------464------131(0.28)--107(81)-----6(77.3)
Arteta----------629------232(0.36)--182(78)-----19(33.1)
Hamman-------720-------476(0.66)--393(82)-----37(19.45)
Butt----------630-------300(0.47)--218(72)-----31(20.32)
S Davis(Por)---781-----333(0.42)---264(79)-----38(20.5)
Noble-----------459----295(0.64)---240(81)------26(17.6)
Lampard--------450----317(0.70)--274(86)------13(34.6)
Makalele--------243-----224(0.92)--189(84)------10(24.3)
Flamini----------528-----396(0.75)--337(85)------22(24)
Carrick----------400-----392(0.98)--326(83)------19(21)
Fabregas-------521------469(0.90)--368(78)------17(30.6)
What we can see is that he has the best pass completion (inc Fabregas/Gerrad/Alonso/Lampard/Makalele) in this comprehensive premiership comparison.
Now couple this with the fact that he also has a higher passes per minute ratio than all except Makalele, Flamini, Fabregas & Carick.
So he is not only the most accurate passer but also the 4th productive behind some pretty impressive candidates playing in better teams.
As far as tackling goes he has a very similar tackles per minute ratio to McCann, Hamman, Butt, Carrick and is only really bettered meaningfully by Noble and Reo Coker.
Is it time, like Lee, that we start to accept that while he may not be the new Viera/Hoddle highbred some had hoped for, that he is at least a pretty decent footballer who does not deserve the slagging he’s had from some.
He's shit.
I think the unfair criticism of Zokora can be applied to our entire midfield.
The story of our season so far has been strikers not scoring, defenders not defending and a keeper not keeping.
The fact we rarely concede in open play coupled with 16 goals in 9 games would suggest the one area we are doing well in is midfield.
Yet I still read constant criticism of Zokora, Huddlestone, Jenas, Tainio, Malbranque and even Lennon now.
The one area which our entire fanbase perceives as our weakest link has actually been our strongest so isn't about time we laid off them now?
I agree. Just needs to stop the longer range stuff until he can do it better!
Zokora lacks goals, end of
Zokora is not bad, and certainly far better than many people on here give him credit for (I've read some truly ridiculous crap on here in the last few weeks from some people who should know better).
But he's still not good enough, which is, I think, the most important point.