Manuel Neuer

During one period of the season, there was an image that was widely circulated, an image that contained in its content that Manuel Neuer had received many more goals this season than the matches he played with Bayern Munich, and that a goalkeeper like this could not be said about him being among the 3 best goalkeepers in the world. Or even the best of them all.

Of course, getting a statistic like this is the easiest thing possible, any website will present you with a simple and rigid statistic like it, but if you want to search for the full truth, several other clicks will take you to sites that give more detailed and accurate statistics, which may refute all the above theories. Don't forget, of course, that you don't always need numbers, as long as you have eyes to watch and a mind to analyze with.

According to the statistics website understat, Bayern Munich have received this season 26.62 goals expected from open play, which is a large number of course for a team that dominates the league in which it plays, but because we know Bayern Munich's style well, there is no need to consider it a surprise, this is normal when you are Your way to victory is simply a mixture of a lot of pressure, a lot of advanced defense, and a lot of space, until the result is a lot of goals.

Until the moment of writing these words, Bayern Munich had received 27 goals from open play, and by simple calculation we will know that this number is no more than 0.38 more than the number of expected goals, and this is completely insane, that a goalkeeper receives so many chances as a result of open play due to The style of his extremist team, however, succeeds in reducing the gap and equalizing the scales to this extent.

Imagine, for example, that the expected goals that Borussia Dortmund received from open play were 6 goals less than Bayern's goals, and with this, Russia received more goals than the average by a difference of 3.
Bayern Leverkusen they also conceded fewer goals expected from open play than Bayern Munich, and yet they conceded goals larger than average by 3 goals.

Perhaps this contradiction is what deserves to be taken as a surprise, but in fact, as long as we are talking here about Manuel, this is normal and normal, and anything to the contrary is what deserves to be considered a surprise.

In the midst of all the extremism practiced by Bayern Munich, Manuel is the nail that controls the whole structure, and if this nail falls, everything will collapse, and at that time its value will be well understood, and the statistic that you thought reduces its value while doing the opposite will become many times greater than It was.