Janus Nielsen

Football geek with an interest in the Premier League and stats. Writer of The English Football Patient blog.

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@daniellloyd1 Jonas just said on Danish TV that he hopes Kuss wins it all. If Kuss can follow tomorrow I don't suspect Jonas or Primoz are going to accelerate the pace to win the last few seconds back

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@utdrobbo Could you elaborate on the cohort here? How big is the pool of 'positional peers' and from which leagues?

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@ThereseUTD @stranddh Og for United-fans på The Athletic er der overvældende opbakning til Ratcliffe:

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@johnjohnson178 @sportbible Those stats are facts. I hear what you are saying, but I think it makes sense always to couple the eye-test of a player with their underlying production. The claim is not that goals and assists are all that matter, but for a number 10 surely they must be considered?

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@johnjohnson178 @sportbible "Aha, so you like facts? Then the two of us cannot have a conversation!"

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@JSingh1980 @sportbible Very mature

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@Jaycen_solo @sportbible Berbatov was good, but no one rates him as one of the PL's greats. I think that is a fair assessment of him and I would put Bergkamp in the same category. Clearly a lot of people do not 😊

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@Jaycen_solo @sportbible I agree with that, but Cantona also scored at a much better clip. I think a better comparison for Bergkamp is Berbatov. Both played as 10s, both were very technically gifted but too slow and their goals+assists per game rates are very similar

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@Jaycen_solo @sportbible You cannot be overrated if no one rated you. I think he was good not great as many people seem to think (also evidenced in the comments here). The man scored 82 non-penalty goals in 315 league appearances, so one in every four roughly. That is good, not great!

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@MarcusRashford Keep your head held high. You are a great player and a great person and in that perspective this means nothing

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English fans yet again showing a complete lack of class by booing another country's anthem #Euro2020Final

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@HectorMartinAr @J_P_Wilson @JoaquimCampa Indeed

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@based_ball I thought you might enjoy this. That's... a pretty good sac fly!

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@RobertoRojas97 *Marcelo

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Looks like Chelsea are losing this year's #CHEWBA CCA game

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These are the same people who think walls work.

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I suppose Arsenal fans are forever going to hail that Gabriel Jesus goal as one of the best in the PL era #MCILIV

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@MarcusRashford @AnthonyMartial Your newest Danish fans!

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@Caley_graphics Surprised that Lingard and Greenwood's 1:1 chances (both bad chips) do not grade out as bigger chances than this. Is goalkeeper position not part of the model?