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In Today’s CleanSheet:

Observations 🔭
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Observations 🔭

Politics Aside. Soccer in the Oval Office. Alexi Lalas points out there are under 500 days until the World Cup in the USA.

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Standings & Stats

239 Matches have been played to date - Aside of Everton/Liverpool, all clubs have played 24 matches. Away sides have jumped up from 29% over the last couple months.
- Home team wins 94 - 39%
- Away team wins 84 - 35%.
- Draws 61 - 26%.
107 Clean Sheets - 4.47 CS/MW
- Historically the CS averages 5.5 CS’s per match week so we are 21 CS’s behind pace of 110.
- Ahead of last season’s 99 at MW24.
721 Goals - 3.02 g/match
- Behind last season at MW 24 - 797 goals - 3.32 g/m
- Ahead of the historical EPL average of 2.65 g/m - 633 goals
Southampton sit on 9 points. The record for fewest points by a PL side is 11 by Derby County in 2008.
- Derby had 0W 6D & 20 goals and a -69-goal differential.

TRENDS

In the Last 6 weeks these teams have had…..

5+ Wins

NONE

4 Wins

Liverpool
Arsenal
Forest
City
Newcastle
Palace

3 Wins

Bournemouth
Everton

2 Wins

Chelsea
Villa
Fulham
BHA
Brentford
United

1 Win

Spurs
West Ham
Wolves
Leicester City
Ipswich Town
Southampton

0 Losses

Liverpool
Arsenal

1 Loss

Forest
City
Bournemouth
Villa
Palace

2 Losses

Chelsea
Newcastle
Fulham
BHA

3 Losses

Brentford
United
Everton

4 Losses

Spurs
West Ham
Wolves

5 Losses

Leicester City
Ipswich Town
Southampton

Points

14 Liverpool

14 Arsenal

13 Forest

13 City - back to 5th

13 Palace - huge jump up to 12

12 Newcastle

11 Bournemouth

9 Villa

9 Everton - big jump up

8 Fulham

8 BHA - falling

8 Chelsea - still in top 4

7 Brentford - falling

7 United - unacceptable

4 Spurs - unacceptable

4 West Ham - meh

4 Wolves

4 Ipswich Town

3 Leicester City

3 Southampton

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VAR Better This Year Than Last. So far this season there have been 13 VAR MISTAKES, down from 20 mistakes at this point last season. 4 incorrect VAR interventions and 9 missed interventions have been found by the review panel. Of course, one of those 9 misses was the final straw for Erik ten Hag at United.
1 In 3 Matches. So far there have been 70 VAR interventions in 239 matches, just under 1 in 3 matches.
96.4%. Accuracy of VAR this season, up from 95.7% last season.
Quick Arial Views. Cool quick video of all 20 stadiums in the PL this year, smallest to largest. Gives an idea of the surroundings and environment for each club.
- If you’re looking for more background on any of the current 20 PL teams, their clubs cultures and history - check out the 24/25 Season Preview 20in20 - this is Man City, you can see all the posts at the Clean Sheet Website.
FA Cup Schedule. With the NFL basically done, as you navigate to your favorite NCAA Hoops team you can also check out the FA Cup this weekend.

Round 4 - 32 Teams Remain.

LOTS of road games for PL teams. Catch them on ESPN+. 13 of the 16 matches involve PL teams.

Premier League v Premier League

Man United v Leicester City
BHA v Chelsea
Everton v Bournemouth
Aston Villa v Tottenham

PL v Championship (Level 2)

Southampton v Burnley (2nd)
Wolves AT Blackburn Rovers (7th)
Man City AT Leyton Orient (8th) or Derby County (18th) C
Ipswich Town AT Coventry (16th)
Liverpool AT Plymouth Argyle (24th)

PL v League 1 (Level 3)

Newcastle AT Birmingham City (1st)
Forest AT Exeter (15th)
Fulham AT Wigan (17th) or Mansfield (9th)

PL v League 2 (Level 4)

Palace AT Doncaster Rovers (7th) - MON

Non PL Matches

Leeds host Millwall
Preston host Wycombe
Stoke host Cardiff

📸📸 Capture the Moment 📸📸

With one of the “greatest” sporting events set for Sunday CS went down a rabbit hole this week and ran into a thread of the greatest sports photos of all time.

Here are the top 50 by StadiumTalk.com and the top 100 by SportsIllustrated.com.

Here’s what quickly came to mind and made the CS Top 10….

Category: Iconic

#1 on almost all the lists.

Only picture on CS list before CS’s time, but it is iconic.

Ali - Liston 1965

Do You Believe in Miracles? YES!

Couldn’t watch this win over the USSR live, saw it tape delayed on a black and white tv. Seeing the color pictures made it that much sweeter.

Miracle on Ice 1980

Category: Brand Management

Air Jordan

Reminder, “dunking” was a new thing and the best player in the world took it to another level.

Slam Dunk Contest 1988

Brandi, you're a fine girl.

Just something about the USA winning, regardless of the sport.

Women’s World Cup PK Winner 1999

Category: Grit

Perserverance

World Series Game 1. Dodgers-A’s.

Kirk Gibson did not play after tearing a left hamstring and spraining the right knee. The Dodgers were really going to miss the MLB MVP. Bottom of 9, 2-out, against the game’s best closer in Dennis Eckersley. Gibson was called on by Tommy Lasorda to pinch hit, limped up to the plate, worked the count to 3-2 swinging with almost no weight on his back leg. CS was at a house party on the UW campus in Madison watching on a what was not more than a 17” TV. The rest is history.

Overcoming

The world’s best speedskater, Dan Jansen, was favored to win Gold in 1988 in Calgary. The day of his first race he heard his sister had died and ended up falling in both the 500 and 1,000 meter races. He returned in 1992 to Albertville, France and again failed to medal even though he was considered the best in the world. In 1994 he returned to the Olympics for a third time, this time in Lillehammer, Norway. Jansen had the fastest time in the world and gold in the World Championships, but he fell again in the 500. One more race for a medal, the 1,000 meters - he set the World Record at 1:12:43 and took gold.

Calgary 1988

Gold

Category: Great Memories

Records

Back when players stuck around, Ron Dayne was unstoppable. Magical moment at Camp Randal setting the all time NCAA rushing record - needing 99 against rival Iowa and getting 216.

Ron Dayne - 1999

Roses

Nothing like it. Get to a Rose Bowl.

2020

Runs

Rose Bowl, 1994. Wisconsin 21-16 UCLA. It was the most unlikely of plays when QB Darrell Bevell ran for a 21-yeard touchdown and to say Bevell was slow is as a turtle is an offence to turtles.