Matt Cheetham
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120 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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I'm all good.
Stats guru.
I think you might have upgraded me last time you went with stats expert.
Puts a little bit of pressure on to actually nail these stats with no football going on, but I'll do my best.
Yes, Chris Basham.
Sheffield United feel like such a cohesive unit under Chris Wilder.
Instead of having many individual star names at all.
So at times it kind of feels like half their team could qualify for something like this.
Yeah, I guess Basham is certainly one of their leading players.
And given O'Connell got in your team, I guess Basham, perhaps a slightly less sexy pick at 31 now, goes a little bit more under the radar.
Certainly Sheffield United stand out defensively.
I think they've scored 10 to 15 goals fewer than all the other teams around them.
So it's certainly their defence that has led them to some of their success this season.
They're second best in terms of goals conceded, conceding fewer than Liverpool.
And of those two players...
He and O'Connell make such different contributions in their now well-known roles as underlapping centre-backs to any other Premier League central defenders, really.
They contribute so much more in attack.
They cover far more ground.
I think Basham covers 10.8 kilometres per 90 minutes, which is the most of any centre-back, and actually second of all defenders behind Brighton's Dan Byrne, who's been playing at left-back.
But when you really go over that, it's ridiculous for a centre-back to be covering more ground than practically every full-back in the division, who you just assume would be going forward and back with most attacks.
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