The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Leipzig-PSG (2-2): Kimpembe and the defense, statistics that hurt

2021-11-04T09:00:44.254Z


The PSG defender has had a checkered start to the season. Evidenced by his nightmarish evening Wednesday night in Leipzig, punctuated by a


On November 4, 2020, he left Leipzig with a red card, a penalty conceded for a hand and a defeat (2-1).

A year later, the picture is a bit more positive but not sure that Presnel is satisfied.

PSG conceded a draw (2-2) Wednesday night in Germany for this 4th day of the Champions League.

A poor performance after being joined in stoppage time on a penalty caused by "Presko", nervous the whole game.

With this gross mistake, the 26-year-old Parisian defender (197 games since 2014) became the PSG player who conceded the most penalties in the capital, tied with Thiago Silva.

This was recorded by the Opta agency, which has been analyzing the competition since 2003-2004.

It is important to note that Presnel has played almost half as many C1 matches (37) under the Parisian colors than the Brazilian (60), now at Chelsea.

3 - No Paris player has conceded more penalties in the Champions League than Presnel Kimpembe (3 - tied with Thiago Silva) since Opta analyzed the competition (2003/04).

Spoils.

#RBLPSG pic.twitter.com/kmcD1muyv1

- OptaJean (@OptaJean) November 3, 2021

The “titi” has often been criticized for these concentration swings.

Just after the 2018 World Cup, he had had a tough season.

Setbacks symbolized by his fault of hand against Manchester United which costs the elimination of the eighth-final in the Champions League and his goal against his side in the final of the Coupe de France against Rennes.

In March 2021, he was also guilty of a CSC with the France team against Ukraine but overall, Kimpembe had managed to erase his slag.

It had even become indisputable in the mind of Didier Deschamps like Euro 2021.

What a funny end to the game.

PSG is sanctioned in the last moments.

Kimpembe guilty of a foul on Nkunku in the box.

Penalty, this time transformed by Szoboszlai.

pic.twitter.com/cjqbQc4BEK

- RMC Sport (@RMCsport) November 3, 2021

Since the resumption of the season, he seems to have fallen back into his faults.

According to France Info, it displays its worst statistics in terms of balloons recovered (4.3 per 90 minutes), aerial duels won (1 per 90 minutes) and in percentage of starts concluded without conceding a goal (18.8%: 3/16).

Not the only defensive worry

Obviously, isolating an individuality from a collective state of form has its limits.

Especially with this PSG without a conductive line.

Only, despite an imperial Marquinhos, the men of Pochettino worry defensively.

The club have conceded five goals in four games and some statistics place them in the cart of European teams.

According to RMC Sport, only Club Brugge, Besiktas, Sheriff Tiraspol and Malmö have conceded more shots on target per game this season in the Champions League (6).

PSG also ranks 26th out of 32 in terms of "expected goals" (2.14 per match), a data calculated by algorithms and supposed to quantify the number of goals that a team is supposed to take in view of the physiognomy of the team. match and adversity.

Source: leparis

All sports articles on 2021-11-04

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.