Quote from: Ad@m on July 06, 2013, 05:20:30 PMQuote from: Legion on July 06, 2013, 01:48:20 PMWell deserved: To be fair, those stars are heavily weighted in Brad's favour. Total saves and saves in the box were helped by the fact that our defence was shit last season so he faced more shots than most keepers. And the goal kick completion stat is helped by the fact he almost always just kicks it to someone on the edge of our box. The stats wouldn't look quite so rosy if they included goals conceded and clean sheets - two standard measures of goalkeeper performance. That said, Brad had a great season last year. It would be interesting to see how he performs behind a solid defence where he's tested only rarely but where the impact of him ballsing up is so much greater.At the start of the season perhaps. Towards the end though most of his goal kicks were long. I would say the stat is skewed more because of Bentekes ability to win bloody everything in the air.Also I note Brad Friedel saying nice things about Villa again. That is how you behave as an ex Villa player. What a top bloke.
Quote from: Legion on July 06, 2013, 01:48:20 PMWell deserved: To be fair, those stars are heavily weighted in Brad's favour. Total saves and saves in the box were helped by the fact that our defence was shit last season so he faced more shots than most keepers. And the goal kick completion stat is helped by the fact he almost always just kicks it to someone on the edge of our box. The stats wouldn't look quite so rosy if they included goals conceded and clean sheets - two standard measures of goalkeeper performance. That said, Brad had a great season last year. It would be interesting to see how he performs behind a solid defence where he's tested only rarely but where the impact of him ballsing up is so much greater.
Well deserved:
Love him. Proper Villa man.Deserves a new deal for his form last season.
Excellent news.Here's an interesting comment on the storyI've lifted from the Heil Mail, it's by someone called Niseach, Cheshire:"The best goalkeepers are NOT the shot stoppers (like Given) who have to make lots of spectacular saves. The best are the ones that communicate and organise their defence efficiently, and get their positioning right meaning that they make less saves, and often saves that look routine. The Americans are exceptional at this, and demonstrate exceptional athleticism and movement. The reason is that the goalkeeper in America is the position where the best athlete in the team generally plays. In UK grassroots football, the amount of teams that have a large, often overweight kid in goal is scary. When I coached at a professional club, these kids used to be brought in by the scouts citing how fantastic they were. The reality was that they could not do the basics at all, and couldn't move. In their club games they filled the goals, and the ball hit off of them. Our most athletic kids find goalkeepng boring, and we miss out - this is manifested in the Premiership where very few are British. "
Goalkeeper Brad Guzan is relishing getting to know Villa's summer recruits during the training camp in Germany - and says they are entering an exciting dressing room.Guzan joined up with the squad on Saturday before flying out to their training base the following day.He was joined by Jores Okore, Leandro Bacuna, Aleksandar Tonev, Niklas Helenius, Antonio Luna and Jed Steer.Guzan can't wait to bond with the newboys during the week-long camp.Villa's ace stopper thinks the six lads will settle quickly due to the already-amazing atmosphere in the squad.He said: "It will be good out in Germany. I am really looking forward to it."I can't wait to spend some time with the newboys and help them get integrated into the squad and also for us to get to know them too. That will be good."We will work really hard in training and play three games. That will be a good start to the pre-season."The training camp is vital for both bonding and fitness. It gives you a chance to see the guys all the time."You eat your meals together - breakfast, lunch and dinner - you train and you play games."It's important that we spend that time getting to know each other on and off the pitch."The newboys are coming into an exciting dressing room."Off the pitch, we have good banter and good laughs. We are a really tight knit group of players who enjoy the company of each other."On the field, it's about working hard, being committed, helping each other and doing our utmost for this great football club."We are very much about picking up the guy next to you if he's down, offering encouragement and sticking together and getting after it."We feel like a special family - we have that family feel in the dressing room."That's big for us because there will be times during the season when things aren't going our way."You'll have people doubting you and you're then going to look around the dressing room and you're going to need every single one of them in there to pull together and stay strong for each other."We have that camaraderie and that bond. The newboys will feel that and become part of it very quickly. That helps us massively as a squad of players."
QuoteGoalkeeper Brad Guzan is relishing getting to know Villa's summer recruits during the training camp in Germany - and says they are entering an exciting dressing room.Guzan joined up with the squad on Saturday before flying out to their training base the following day.He was joined by Jores Okore, Leandro Bacuna, Aleksandar Tonev, Niklas Helenius, Antonio Luna and Jed Steer.Guzan can't wait to bond with the newboys during the week-long camp.Villa's ace stopper thinks the six lads will settle quickly due to the already-amazing atmosphere in the squad.He said: "It will be good out in Germany. I am really looking forward to it."I can't wait to spend some time with the newboys and help them get integrated into the squad and also for us to get to know them too. That will be good."We will work really hard in training and play three games. That will be a good start to the pre-season."The training camp is vital for both bonding and fitness. It gives you a chance to see the guys all the time."You eat your meals together - breakfast, lunch and dinner - you train and you play games."It's important that we spend that time getting to know each other on and off the pitch."The newboys are coming into an exciting dressing room."Off the pitch, we have good banter and good laughs. We are a really tight knit group of players who enjoy the company of each other."On the field, it's about working hard, being committed, helping each other and doing our utmost for this great football club."We are very much about picking up the guy next to you if he's down, offering encouragement and sticking together and getting after it."We feel like a special family - we have that family feel in the dressing room."That's big for us because there will be times during the season when things aren't going our way."You'll have people doubting you and you're then going to look around the dressing room and you're going to need every single one of them in there to pull together and stay strong for each other."We have that camaraderie and that bond. The newboys will feel that and become part of it very quickly. That helps us massively as a squad of players."
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