Hello and welcome to the double pivot the world's most agreeable soccer Alex podcast I am Michael Kalie. We are back the season is not quite over. There is for instance a conference league final We're not doing material map, but it exists and there's a champions league final and you can go to patreon.com So I'll pivot to listen to our preview of that match, but now we've got a guinec pod here We're gonna do from your league teams of the season draft. I'm joined by my Goodman ready to try this out Yeah, let's do it the music on the way as well or squeeze down Let's grab his patreon.com slash double pivot coming out in the discord where you can tell us how good or bad our teams end up being Yeah, let's get right to it.
This is gonna be a long podcast. So we should just start or two podcasts possibly Starting we should describe the rules. We did a moose-down belly podcast for all the sickos out there just talking about the rules We got some suggestions to improve it. So yeah, here's how it's going to work.
This draft has been improved thanks to Solicious gosset correspondent Joel Berthimer who is also like you know kind of a game theory correspondent although he hasn't had an opportunity to do that As well as Hyundai Sam who has always been there with our financialization ideas when we need them So what we're going to do is the first two rounds will be snake style So prover gets to pick first will pick one whoever gets to pick second will pick second and third and then the experts will pick fourth And then after that it'll go back to one one one one So we have a snake draft the whole way down So I'm taking two every time boring then the other part of this is that we'll each get one reverse card after the second round At the beginning of any round the person going second can say I reverse this round and grab the player that they desperately wanted our Afraid of losing the other person also gets to do that They can if they want use their reverse card to de-reverse if they are locked in on the same player or hilarious If they're not locked on the same player and we are playing the game theory wrong So that's the structure of it the goal here is to pick the best players from the past season So that we're not picking for what they could do in the future and we are taking very seriously into account What they literally did do so things like goals over xg that really happened and not age particularly like we're not we're not looking to Project future performance. We're not looking like this is not like what team we want for the next five years or something That might be a fun podcast, but it would be a different podcast. Exactly. If you for instance were 33 years old and scored dozens of goals You might go first in this draft it could happen and the and we also are looking to produce some kind of coherent team We that doesn't have to be like strictly here is everyone fitting these very specific roles But the end of the podcast both of us have to make a case that there is a good very good because we got to pick the player from all over the Premier League very very good coherent team here and so that is going to be something we are watching as we go forward All right, Mike you ready to go.
Let's do it coin flip time coin flip time or more specifically I have a equals Rand function in my spreadsheet that I am about to update here. We go Came out over 0.5. So Mike gets the first pick. All right.
I'm not gonna like pretend that this is complicated I'm just taking Mosala. Okay. There we go. Yeah, he's the best player in the world this year It's not close.
There's like no argument He is just like he's best player in the world. Mosala the best season of anybody not just in the Premier League But anyway, possibly reviewing it, but we can we better say that there the only interesting discussion here Is whether there is a good argument for Refinea over him for Bellon door and their legit is Refinea got 13 and 8 in the Champions League. It's insane If we like we're picking players all over the world, which would be much too difficult It would be really interesting deciding between the two of them. Yeah, but we're not right picking the family Okay, now I have to hold my breath cuz I Had a plan to go second a lot more than I had a plan to go first So let's see what happens here Exactly and so now you're waiting to see if one of them falls to fourth or both of them fall to fourth and who knows what happens?
So I have two picks here that I feel pretty good about because I made a plan for this as well Those two picks are going to be I just gained three my way out of one. I pick Damn it now. What are you randomizing? Did you roll out like a high number?
You're like a mixed strategy like the perfect balance would be if I pick this guys 70% of the time and then you rolled out of it. That's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened All right, so I am still going to do it because I don't have any better ideas So my two picks for these two spots are Gonna be Cole Palmer and Erling Holland That that is exceedingly reasonable. I think that in Particular Cole Palmer is a weird one because he was so good at the beginning of the season and so not that good Not bad, but like not outstanding the second half of the season that the overall vibe of it is not as good as the a cricket Yes, and Chelsea would not be in fourth or even particularly close to fourth If Cole Palmer hadn't just carried them for a half season He was like super star level football He was nearly as productive in goals and assists as Sala for half a season while being just as important arguably more important to the way that Chelsea moved the ball up the field and then he stopped doing that because like it was freaky and he's not actually that good But he's their primary way that the ball moves forward from here to there once it gets into like there's guys who do a lot of progression From the back, but he picks up the ball all the time in midfield and moves it forward and he's hugely involved in shot production He just had a great season He's my clear number two and then I was trying to decide what to do with the third pick and I decided not to overthink it Holland also scored a bunch of goals in the Champions League That's a little bit added value Like the way I'm looking at the penalties is there's a little bit of value added if someone made all of their penalties Or was significantly over the average penalty rate Holland on the season with five of six that really gives him basically nothing That's funny.
So now it's my turn. I would not have taken Cole Palmer I think it's like totally reasonable But like my plan was to take was was to do something a little bit weird and take Holland and the guy who is now fallen to me And that is out of the end of his act who would just have a tremendous all sorts of season I mean, it's not like a confusing situation He was just he scored I think one less goal than Holland, but was you know Not with fewer penalties. So like you know a little from calm a little bit He's just great. My argument was going to be right that you could play them together Because he's like is a little bit of a dribbly boy and can play a little bit wingery and a little bit drop in But he's like he's a nine like he's yep He's like a solid nine.
So I'm just taking it out and he's I mean the reason I was like delaying was the problem that I had to strike her so close to each other And is there a way to play around with that and you had the option of like baby sort of jamming me making another pick That would be yes, but this is my thought was I can just take them both I didn't want to leave him for you to take because I thought you might just decide to take them both So you now go first this next time so I guess we do go one two two two I could call a reverse here I do not plan to because I Know you just go right like you just go and then I go and then you go and you get first back And I get to be first in the other ones, right? Yeah, they're throwing it right back at me Yeah, all right I knew I had this problem from the very beginning this process and I didn't solve it at all So I am going to just take the next player down the list in my stupid like, you know Little bit of adding numbers together model, which gives me Van Dyck makes sense, so I mean he played the whole season and He has developed into a really great progressive passer like this is like classic Where if you can maintain your ability to cover the part of the pitch that you're supposed to into your 30s You have so much experience playing football and your feet have so much training Trying to kick a football that you just can't really good at putting the ball We need to put it and knowing where the right place is to put the ball and one of the things about Liverpool this season Is that they ended up depending on him to progress the ball more than they usually have in the past his Outlet balls to to solid became more of a thing his out the ball to either wing became more of a thing He's moving the ball out from defense became more of a thing while still while playing in a system that maybe didn't ask quite as much of him defensively, but in which he was just fantastic. I I'm also going to take a Liverpool defender for primarily passing reasons and that is to now It's an Arnold. Yeah, try to head it off year this year in that as a right back He was only fifth in the Premier League and expects to assist as well as being a ball progression machine I'm like look you just need a you know, I've got most all and I was at least I just need a guy to get the ball so Try I don't really think it needs a ton of explanation.
Yeah. No, I was I was deciding between Virgil and Trent and one other guy and I decided that in the end it was like The fact that Trent had a off season this season in part because this system just made him somewhat less central to Liverpool I don't think it's because he was worse Yeah, I do think it meant that he had less value than he usually does the clock just like leaned everything on him and slot Made it a more balanced approach from the back. I agree But the counter to that is that there's a bunch of setbacks. Yeah, yeah The counter counter to that is that you don't need to write that anymore So I can wait also true.
All right, so the attack in the Premier League this year was just so bizarrely right-cited Yes, it's like a real issue. It really really really is that was one of my reasons for picking Palmer's I can just put him at 10. Yeah, and then I get another right-side attacker a Good recommendation if you're ever doing this yourself and you need to have answers recently quickly is not to have two different rating systems you're trying to like average those two different rating systems instead and I've gone over it a couple of different ways and I think that the problem that you were discussing that there just aren't any left wings It's hard is leading with Luis Diaz right now Yeah, I just got to take Diaz right now I'd rather take Diaz even if he's not my top pick in this spot because he's close enough. Yeah, and it makes sense figure something out he was exceptionally good as both an off-ball finisher getting a bunch of very high quality shots He's averaging like point one three point one four xg per shot because the big thing he did very very well is work as an off-wall finisher And but he also did a he was also a very good secondary attacking outlet and as we discussed a very good secondary attacking outlet Who particularly is very good at not losing the ball So if you want to progress the ball at the left you might not you're not getting nearly as much shot creation as they did from from Salah as my team is going to be depending on from Cole Palmer, but As a secondary outlet and he can finish the chances that the other player gives you and you know, we got a bunch of goals I don't I'm not wrong with that.
Okay, so it is not my turn I think I'm just gonna take away from Saliba like he's just like the best defensive center back in the league Maybe in the world, but definitely in the Premier League. So I'm just gonna take him. I can't it's one of those things I can't really give you a statistical backdrop for it. It's just it's true.
He's a great defensive center back I can't like argue like I think it's an arguable event that either way which ever one you want to select makes sense But I just think it's very clear those are the two best underbacks in England right now So I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna take away Saliba. We discussed this on the earlier Podcast that one of the interesting problems in this game is that Arsenal pretty clearly the second best team in the league Also, very difficult to pick players off of yeah He's the easiest one it's very difficult to pick players off a partly because a bunch of their players were injured and then of the players who weren't injured They are not as compelling obvious individual on ball statistical profiles. Correct.
Yeah, then Dyke really has this on ball statistical profile of ball progression and is was more core to the ball progression than then Dyke because our Tetas system just sort of balances it out around so many different players who are all so good on the ball Does that mean he's less valuable? Right We've avoided midfield here in an interesting way. We sure have and I think to some degree both of our picks so far I've been orchestrated around that idea like we both really prioritize like Creative ball movement to the front from the defensive line. Yeah, and part of this is really it's not because I don't have Some midfielders who show up pretty high on my list.
I agree It's because for almost every midfielder I've got that shows up high on my list I've got a secondary option that I like just about as much that is why I would not take a copalmer in the top two by the way For a very similar reason I think you're right that copalmer is sort of like the best of that bunch But like in the sort of like quasi midfield to attack a role There's a handful of other guys who I also think are pretty good What one thing that I did want to prioritize here is players like a move between one or two positions without cheating yeah And so that was another reason that I took him there's another guy I mean, there's another guy like this that I really wanted to take but I can't because like everything is still Upsided on the right It's not really fair, but like he's good and he's not gonna get in our teams Alright, so with my pick I am going to take room no game rush Actually, I was debating using my diversity right there to take him And I did not the combination of what he's able to give you because like this is a guy who got five and six And there's like no air in that while also being you know But he was the he was the entire idea for do castles ball progression at times They had a full back who was also helping but that's about it Yeah, he was the entire idea for ball progression He got five and six and his defensive production was down pretty significantly this year because he was so important to Everything they did on the ball, but he can if I need to squeeze it a little bit Like I'd be cheating a little because you really didn't do as much defensive as he usually does But he did some and at least you can like balance it out. I agree with that I'm gonna take a very very good player on a very bad team right now Love it and it's just it's gonna be the Bruno portion of the program and I'm taking Bruno for an edge part of that Is I continue as you were saying to prioritize I can play different positions and like depending on how the rest of this draft shakes out It will depend where he plays, but that's just he's a machine Creating chances and he's a machine moving the ball field and he doesn't give you a lot defensively So you have to cover for that, but he's just an absolute machine on the ball and there aren't that many of those guys so Yeah, I mean he's it's been for years Who knows what Manchester United tactics have been year to year right every single year the ball has moved from there Half to the final third cuz Bruno just did some stuff. Yep So I think what I'm gonna do once again is just trust my numbers for defenders Yeah, I'm just trying to refer defenders and take Fardiel Yeah He was at the beginning of the season. He was inexplicably crucial to Manchester City's plans around the penalty area And it wasn't great But he still did the job and defended his wing But then when United got with city got kind of good at the end of the season It was because he was playing center back So he goes from being a not great at it But does his job crucial left back to being the center back who mops up behind the lesson like midfielders and fullbacks and does the job And keeps the defense good.
Yeah, okay, so I think I'm finally gonna break the seal on midfielders Yeah, but it's it's I feel really weird. I guess Bruno's a midfielder This week feels weird to be cuz I don't think I talked about him at all this season but I'm gonna take my sake. I say though because he's had a great season as a defensive midfielder But he's like like accounting stats. He's like top five in tackles He's got like a 50% success rate, which is like absurd for for nobody else like the top I don't even know how many has that highest success rate?
He is not a great ball professor at this moment But what I have done is stacked my team with Trent and Bruno Fernandez So that I don't mean a great ball progressor sort of in the engine room of the team and that's why I'm gonna take Keseo He was an incredible ball sapper this season and all the other guys around him who Like won the ball off of the opposition a lot like none of them played on All of them like it. I don't think that we should we had a podcast with Mark Thompson about how we shouldn't do too much possession adjusting of midfield defensive statistics because midfielders they get those opportunities a lot wherever they play however their team works Ball winning happens to a great degree in specific situations in transition or the ball is moving from place to place Tons of possession is settled in a way that there aren't opportunities and possession adjusting is like It's it's fuzzy even for the situation for it kind of works like a fullback But it's fuzzy in a way that's also working midfield But him doing that on a team that had that much of the ball While no one else on the team had that kind of responsibility in a sort of similar way to how like Bruno Fernandez Just don't worry about it ball moves from here there Keseo whether he played full back deep midfield whether he played in the two whatever it was out of all didn't get the setbacks So we often talk a lot about Assume the ball like how it is often a problem for a team if they are going to construct a strategy in which they assume They have the ball and everything else flows from there I'm just gonna say no on a Chelsea team that really really really wanted to have the ball this season where everything stemmed from having the ball I'm gonna say no was the assume you have the ball linchpin of that like You just like you just go get your ball back and it shows up really clearly in the numbers And now I am gonna use my diversity and I'm going to fill out my midfield with a guy who is obviously great But it is just impossible off of the season to build the numbers case for him and that is Declan race I was considering de-reversing but you spoke so quickly. Oh, no, I can't I can't I don't know what I don't know how to sleep You have to approach analytics in soccer as you get further away from the goal on either side With the humility to be like this dude is obviously good in waves numbers can't understand and I can make all sorts of sort of woo-woo cases for it right like His positioning getting forward into the box even when he doesn't touch the ball is important to Arsenal But like how you quantify that? I don't know His his his his ability to play either as a six or an eight matters the fact that he can progress the ball dribbling or passing At an extremely high level even though he's not asked to do so at volume matters like But like nothing in his numbers from this season if I just showed you the spreadsheet of Premier League midfielders what lead you to believe Declan rice is great, but he clearly is he does like the other thing You can you can boost him with is his Champions League production Yes, like getting four and seven out of a midfielder and a seven is boosted by being on on spot kicks and like that's back Dead balls corners panel corners fouls like yeah, yeah, and he's got great delivery as we have seen but so do many other people I mean, I'm sorry.
I think that's great. He's not taking stuff over Trent Yeah, and they both have to like drug Bruno to make him not grab the ball and stand over it also true if you're looking at a guy who got What is it eight and nine between the two leagues? Like that is now starting to get you a sense of his attacking production that is much clearer than just his Premier League numbers But it is so freakin weird how all of his normal on ball and defensive on ball production like What a way this season and like we know historically he's like Extremely strong volume passer in midfield I mean that was one of the first things that developed in his game you looked at it and said he doesn't progress the ball much But he is a guy on the ball all the time for West Ham and Jimmy I'm for Arsenal in this first season was on the ball a lot and this year everything in Arsenal was so balanced but also like when a guy who knew of his drafted Martin Odegard was on the field a lot more ran through Odegard in midfield then In past years like ball progression stuff is supposed to final third stuff. It was just a very odd year I think driven by injuries and stuff, but it was a very odd year Yeah And like if you look at the if you look at Rice's stats from the last season to this season Like one really obvious thing that happens is that his progressive carries go up by Like 40% from like 2.1 to 2.9 per 90 and his progressive receptions also go up by like oh By over 50% from 1.8 to 3.0 So he is carrying the ball forward and showing up in forward areas in a way that he didn't before and One interesting knock-on effect of this is that his tackles at interceptions go down And also his rate of stopping dribbles against him goes way down I'm just gonna put that down to 40% he got beat a lot more and There are a variety of reasons for this one of which is that he's like higher up the pitch But also if he's defending higher up the pitch which is somewhat less valuable He's not in the ball like I just I go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and I was gonna take that Rice if you didn't take him Yeah, I mean I think I've constructed a team here where I haven't sort of sandwiched between Bruno and I said oh like intentionally Be exactly because of that dynamic Yeah, because one of my problems with like taking him is that I don't want to cheat and say this player who was valuable for doing X can also do what right like to me that like I'm fine with moving players around if they have moved around some during the season and Produced some in different roles, but rice just had this role He was good at it But if you say well The other I could actually do my six and be on the ball a ton.
It's like well He can I'm aware of that but like that's not we're not taking for the future Yeah, so I wasn't an accident that I constructed a team kind of with a decklin rice hole in it That's why I use my reversing to make sure I snake him Not a couple different players here, but now I think the fit is good for doing this which is that I'm gonna take your tealins. Yeah, that makes sense and Tealins is much less defensively capable as a super ball progressor than some of these other guys he absolutely gets covered in midfield because of that, but he played a full season and was just spectacular moving the ball forward and And while playing deep in midfield. He was able to get you know point to XA per 90 while really not moving forward that much Yeah, and Tealins developing into someone who it's not that he's a good defender But he is now really not taking himself out of defensive positions Yeah, I mean I think that that makes that makes a ton of sense He was just sort of very quietly had like one of these bounce back years He was important for Astonville And I don't think he got a lot of credit for being as important as as he is I gotta figure out what I'm doing here. I I'm a point now where there's like a couple of positions that I'm a little bit indifferent to yep and then there's just this big hole and left the tagger and and you know Part of my thinking before you took Tealins was that I could take tealins and push burrow out to the left And I'm still I'm still sort of thinking through that idea of like And you know what?
I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna go take a Lexus McAllister. All right. Yep I'm gonna take a Lexus McAllister.
I'm gonna make my three-man midfield of McAllister rice and quesadoe I'm gonna push Bruno out to be my left-sided attacker, which is like you have a left-back plan I do have a left-back plan I mean what I am indifferent between actually two different players at left back Which is why I do not feel the need to secure the left back which is a part of this left-back plan But yes, I absolutely have plan. All right, maybe I should like say something about a Lexus McAllister Well, while I do this two years ago He played the six which was a role that we were very skeptical He could do and then he did it pretty well this year He was part of it basically part of a double pivot with ground brush right and like the more romy one But it's very it's very soft And like he just is an all-around good midfielder and he plays in a role now that flexes him between like being able to be Between him and grab a brush the one that steps forward as part of the attack, but still gives you defensive production I just have a midfielder of like all arounders but who are variously sort of like tilted one way or the other and I just want my midfield to be very hard to play against it Like I'm clearly leaning into ski. Yeah So I do like how we have both agreed sort of tacitly that goalkeeper is the punter like there are absolutely seasons Where there would be an obvious goalkeeper that you should take or where there would be enough of a gap between one Where there'd be enough of a gap to one and two. Yeah, and like I don't even have a one Yeah, there's a bunch of like two bees Yeah, and the like guys who are the traditional best goalkeepers who have historically been the best goalkeepers and you can say well Maybe even if their mpg isn't that great this season like you take it they all got injured for like 10 games.
Yes So I don't know that is interesting. Also that one thing that we are both seemingly heavily relying on is you gotta be on field It's interesting as we picked a bunch of guys who are like analytics is a little hazy here But I like it the one thing is that I am not picking guys who played 20 90s and saying they're just as good And they're for this team is someone who played 30 35 Yeah, he's like and Holland are the only two guys who have not been like iron men this year basically on our team I guess Trent was a little bit hurt this year and both of them still had more than 30 starts Yeah, Diaz was rotated but he also played a lot in the champions like so I feel like it Yeah, anyway, so like the iron man thing is a big part of my next pick which is going to unbalance my team But I just I just I just can't not take it a few more. Yeah, I would have if it was reversed I would have gone Holland and you saw you take somebody and I take them I'm like up top like I really like that my front three was gonna be too forward So if he's not kind of plays from the left and I'm playing from the right that was that was my plan The reasoning here is two full one is he scored lots of goals and they happened sorry they did he played every single game basically every single minute and He had a different role this season on Brentford that like on a per 90 level was not as valuable He was much less of a forward they it's with the middle and then the left wing very often was the player getting into the penalty I shot a was very productive on a per night level just going in winning header scoring goals doing nothing else and Those things combine I think it's gonna be I'm squeezing a lot of kind of soft passing into my midfield Yeah, I am telling you that and Bumo and Diaz give me a fair amount of defense and safety out there to allow me to do that I mean, I feel like the thing we should mention about a women is that he led the Premier League in expected assists He's just an incredibly productive passer from this role in the final third There's definitely air in those We scored out of his mind of this year. Yeah, sorry.
That is not true. So this is an important thing I just had this like locked in my head is being being true He had seven assists from 8.3 expected goals assisted from 9.3 expected assists, right? Yes So he was really playing super super valuable passes in from the right I also had I also had it the other way in my brain I wonder that change over the course here But he's certainly like wildly outplayed his xg finishing right but that counts and looking at xa rather than a or xa g So looking at the like passes go from this point to this point rather than was there a shot or was there a goal at the end of Them also bumps him up a little bit. I'm sorry But like if you were to do this draft again, there's a statistical case that he should be the second pick But it really is and it is just a little bit of a quirk that the guy ahead of him is Yeah, and it like there's a reasonable argument to take somebody like a cold Palmer that pushed him down But like I was like thinking in my head How was I gonna talk about it on the podcast if I took him as one of my my set of two after the first pick because like I was Seriously considering yeah, so you gotta take mo first that does open up that wing.
Yeah, my midfield is my midfield is gonna have some trouble against you I'm gonna figure this out. Oh, I suppose we should talk about like when we analyze this is it in a matchup between the two of us Or is it just like hypothetically who's got the better team? I think it's mostly the latter, but the former is funny. Yes I agree.
I agree with that. Okay, it's up to me If we came into it who was like on the field more I would take him here. Yeah, but you just you just can't I Also have thoughts in my head about taking Vario before you did as sort of like I'm not sure whether I'm going to end up with him As my left back or my left center back And then to play is a sort of like next to Saliba which I thought would make sense You know, I'm just gonna take Anthony Robinson here at left back and then figure that out later Yeah, Anthony Robinson is one of the two I'm considering if you if you have a team that is constructed to handle Back the entire left flank. He's a guy like he's just like he gets up and down He's incredibly defensively productive Which I think gets lost a little bit in the fact that he just gets up the field and puts cross after cross after cross into the box But he is he's a good defender.
Um, and so Anthony Robinson the left flank of my team is yours So I got myself into a I really should have reversed to take rice because we got down to the end of this this game And I have usually reverse. I haven't used my reverse and I have I now and at the end of this the way I built this team I have no choice but to be picking for system now And if I pick for system, I'm not picking players that you want Yes So which system pick do I make out of the many many many system picks that are available to me? Far down is he how bad is it? He's really far down this list.
It's very annoying. I want to be higher up that list than he was Alright screw it. I have a guy I wanted and I want to talk about him. It's Daniel Munoz from Crystal Palace I like that big.
I just need like I need someone who runs all over the place. My team is really really lacking in I'm stretching a lot of defenders I'm leaning very heavily on Vardyol and Virgil and the one thing that Daniel Munoz doesn't give you is He has his Constitutionally incapable of moving the ball for the pass Zero in his game. He works super hard up and down the flank wins the ball stops the ball He is a very good outlet who can receive the ball And occasionally he can run it for the most part he's an outlet who receives the ball then tries to to recirculate Yeah, so the thing I'm working through now right now as my my as I think about my second center back is like I think I really believe that I want a left footed left center back what when I sort of break this down and Most of the left center backs that play for good teams are either in my opinion Not that good like Dan Byrne on Newcastle or are quite good in my opinion But are like a lot of their value comes from their passing like a Levi Colwell And I don't need a lot of passing out of my my left my center backs in this team I mean, I you know that the system is very much get the ball to Trent and Bruno and then figure it out and you know Let that figure it out. And so The guy I'm kind of landing on Also, because I think I just want representation from this team somewhere is Marilla from from nothing bars Who was who was just like like an absolute machine defensively for them all season long you stick in next to Saliba?
It's very thou shalt not pass me that defensive and you have Kiseido in front of them and Declan Rice Then is the next guy and like I just I feel like I'm extremely hard to break down to that at this point And that is what I'm going with yeah He was the guy who would move the ball out of defense if they had to move the ball out of defense Yeah, he's a very good ball carrier, which is like makes him insane, right? But you can cover that and also a good long pass on no I mean, I think he's like a very big competent well-rounded defender right like and he was playing a little bit on easy mode Right in the way not even far as to set up So like he's not like for example a guy I would look at and say hey, you know Manchester City should consider buying him or something like like I think in a system that asked a lot more of its defenders I would be cautious about him, but hey That's not what happened to this year right this year He was a really central cog in a Nottingham bars team that played very well defensively for most of the year and be It's not the system I built for my team. So hmm hmm. All right I probably should have just used my reverse there because I had two left sided centerbacks that I wanted to pick I'm not gonna pick a left back.
I'm going to be oh, you're gonna be fancy I think that I just have so much ball movement and so many outlets on my team And I am afraid of how my team is going to work stopping the ball that I'm going to use variol as sort of a left back slash left center back in a very unbalanced system and I'm gonna take Dean Mm-hmm, who is? Exceptionally two-footed and and and and plays and playing on the left So him and Virgil and basically my concept here is that everyone except for Munoz is so freaking good at possession makes sense and I feel ridiculous using my reverse to take a goalkeeper that I'm not that interested in But I have a reverse and and you could be super truly if you wanted Give it give it the goalkeeper stats from the season The basic problem here is that Ed Airsen had an unusually good shot-stopping season by the numbers He missed a bunch of games Allison had a normally good shot-stopping season and he missed a bunch of games Almost no one had that good a ball-stopping season. Yeah, and so I'm just gonna use my reverse to take Allison sure because Yeah, and I think he ended up producing more value than almost anyone else despite being short of minutes I'm gonna take Jordan Pickford. I love it.
I don't know man. He had a pretty good shot stopping here And like why not? That's what I got. So there we go.
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