9-0 or 1-6 are not representative results, but in general one should be careful to just remove data. Even if we know that both those results were heavily depending on red cards, we still played super poor and super well in those two matches, so take away their contribution totally is not correct imo. Would we remove them if 5-0 and 1-4? Again that's why I like to look at patches and not focus so much on averages.
If we look at the whole season, the most common result is that we concede 0 goals in a match. The second most common is 1, and then 2.
We have conceded 2 goals in 6 matches but still managed to win 4 of them, 1 draw and 1 loss. This is obviously because we scored a lot of goals, and the price for the offensive football is often conceding more, like in the 6-2 game.
| Goals conceded | Number of games |
| 0 | 8 |
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 6 | 1 |
If we look at the patch of 19 straight games I was talking about, it looks like this:
| Goals conceded | Number of games |
| 0 | 8 |
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 5* |
*Note that two of 2-goals conceded were the first matches in some time for Bailly and Tuanzebe.
When it comes to the DM covering part, we have scored most goals in the PL and many of those goals with both Fred and McT on the pitch. In general, we have not been playing defensive football. It has been mostly in the bigger matches where we have struggled to score, but kept clean sheets.
