Return of the Top Defenses of the Top 5 Leagues 2013-2014 (stats)

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

23 – Juventus Turin (38 matches) – G.Buffon / M.Storari (5)
23 – Paris St.Germain (38 matches) – Salvatore Sirigu

23 – FC Bayern München (34 matches) – M.Neuer / T.Starke (2) / L.Raeder (2)

25 – AS Roma (38 matches) – Morgan de Sanctis

26 – Atletico Madrid (38 matches) – T.Courtois / D.Aranzubia (1)
26 – Lille OSC (38 matches) – Vincent Enyeama

27 – Chelsea FC (38 matches) – P.Cech / M.Schwarzer (4)

31 – AS Monaco (38 matches) – D.Subašić / S.Romero (1)

33 – FC Barcelona (38 matches) – V.Valdéz / J.Pinto (13)

34 – AS St.Étienne (38 matches) – Stéphane Ruffier
34 – FC Basel 1893 (36 matches) – Y.Sommer <3 / G.Vailati (2)

Order: 1st number of goals, 2nd number of matches, 3rd alphabetical
Data up to 2014/05/24 23:59 GMT+2


Stats up to 24 May 2014, 23:59 GMT+2:


red - League champion
black - club plays CL*
purple - club plays EL*
green - no participation in EL/CL
*)  that is, club qualified for the CL/EL spots, but might not actually go through the qualification/play-offs

I decided to add Bayern's FIFA Club World Cup matches, too. I put the CWC data into the League Cup column as Germany does not have a League cup and I didn't want to add some extra columns only for the CWC and Bayern.

Oh and I know that FC Basel 1893 doesn't play in one of the 5 top leagues, but this is my list and I want to have Yann Sommer in it anyway


More on Defensive Records:

Top Defense Statistics 2012/13: http://www.goallegacy.net/t24397-return-of-the-top-defenses-of-the-top-5-leagues-2012-2013-stats

A Graphical Analysis of attacking and defensive effectiveness among Europe's top divisions 2012/13: http://www.goallegacy.net/t27627-a-graphical-analysis-of-attacking-and-defensive-effectiveness-among-europe-s-top-divisions
And here's 2013/14: http://experimental361.com/2013/10/04/an-early-look-at-the-big-five-european-divisions/

Top Defense Statistics 2011/12: http://www.goallegacy.net/t16898-the-best-defense-in-europe

Defensive Performance of Top Teams in 2010/11: http://www.goallegacy.net/t8029-defensive-performance-of-top-teams-in-2010-2011

It returns

If it wasn't for that horror of a game against Man City

Our defense is going to be insane this season. Mig

pep ruining Bayern's defending

3 goals conceded in 3 games

Well, so far neither Bayern nor Basel look in any way as convincing as last season. Particularly the two Super Cups made Bayern suffer greatly with 6 goals against in two matches...

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So, as I will edit the first post with the current data, here are the starting stats from 1 Sep 2013:

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:
0 - Liverpool FC (3 matches) - Simon Mignolet
0 - AS Roma (2 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis
0 - Inter Milan (2 matches) - Samir Handanovic
1 - Chelsea FC (3 matches) - Petr Cech
1 - Tottenham Hotspur (3 matches) - Hugo Lloris
1 - Juventus Turin (2 matches) - Gigi Buffon

Stats up to 01 Sep 2013, 23:59 GMT+2:

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

0 - Liverpool FC (3 matches) - Simon Mignolet
0 - AS Roma (2 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis (game will be played on Monday)

1 - Tottenham Hotspur (4 matches) - Hugo Lloris
1 - West Ham United (4 matches) - Jussi Jääskeläinen
1 - Inter Milan (3 matches) - Samir Handanovic

2 - AS Monaco (5 matches) - Danijel Subasic
2 - FC Bayern München (5 matches) - Manuel Neuer
2 - Chelsea FC (4 matches) - Petr Cech
2 - Everton FC (4 matches) - Tim Howard
2 - Southampton FC (4 matches) - Artur Boruc
2 - Manchester United (4 matches) - David de Gea
2 - Stoke City (4 matches) - Asmir Begovic
2 - Juventus Turin (3 matches) - Gigi Buffon
2 - SSC Napoli (3 matches) - Pepe Reina


Stats up to 15 Sep 2013, 23:59 GMT+2:

This is the first time I've read our name us FC Liverpool

I know that is how Bayern and Barca and some other teams are officially named. With the FC in front of the club name, but it's absolutely wrong in our case. You don't call someone Jane-Mary if they are named Mary-Jane.

Just thought I should mention it.

Oops. Thank you for the correction. Will fix that for the next issue. I used the German version as this is how we write it: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/england/barclays-premier-league/2013-14/spieltag.html

Someone told me about Chelsea a while ago, but when I put together the other teams for the list I used kicker as reference... I bet there will be mistakes for the French, Italian or Spanish teams, too, so if someone finds errors, please feel free to mention them. (I always have trouble when trying to look up the results for Nice, Milan or Fiorentina, too, until I remember that in German they are listed as Nizza, Mailand and Florenz )

LOL, I just checked Goal.com's stats for curiousity's sake and look at this: http://www.goal.com/de/results-standings/64/premier-league/table?ICID=OP XD

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

1 - Tottenham Hotspur (5 matches) - Hugo Lloris
1 - AS Roma (4 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis
1 - Inter Milan (4 matches) - Samir Handanovic
2 - FC Bayern München (6 matches) - Manuel Neuer
2 - Chelsea FC (5 matches) - Petr Cech
2 - Southampton FC (5 matches) - Artur Boruc

Stats up to 22 Sep 2013, 23:45 GMT+2:

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

1 - Tottenham Hotspur (5 matches) - Hugo Lloris
1 - AS Roma (5 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis
1 - Inter Milan (4 matches) - Samir Handanovic

2 - FC Bayern München (6 matches) - Manuel Neuer
2 - Chelsea FC (5 matches) - Petr Cech
2 - Southampton FC (5 matches) - Artur Boruc

3 - AS Monaco (7 matches) - Danijel Subašić
3 - Liverpool FC (5 matches) - Simon Mignolet

4 - Lille OSC (7 matches) - Vincent Enyeama
4 - Paris St.Germain (7 matches) - Salvatore Sirigu
4 - Stade Reims (7 matches) - Kossi Agassa
4 - FC Málaga (6 matches) - Willy Caballero
4 - Stade Rennes (6 matches) - Benoît Costil
4 - AS Livorno (5 matches) - Francesco Bardi
4 - Juventus Turin (5 matches) - Gigi Buffon
4 - Manchester City (5 matches) - Joe Hart
4 - SSC Napoli (5 matches) - Pepe Reina
4 - West Bromwich Albion (5 matches) - Boaz Myhill (3) / Ben Foster (2) / Luke Daniels (1)
4 - West Ham United (5 matches) - Jussi Jääskeläinen
4 - ACF Fiorentina (4 matches) - Neto


Stats up to 25 Sep 2013, 23:50 GMT+2:

If you would of said Spurs and Roma would be leading world football in defense  

It's quite comical how our defence has been this season


Think that's the 4th goal we've shipped from our opponents 1st/2nd shot of the game. We keep bossing matches then out of nowhere we concede. It's odd.

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

1 - AS Roma (6 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis

2 - FC Bayern München (7 matches) - Manuel Neuer
2 - Tottenham Hotspur (6 matches) - Hugo Lloris
2 - Southampton FC (6 matches) - Artur Boruc

3 - Chelsea FC (6 matches) - Petr Cech
3 - Inter Milan (6 matches) - Samir Handanovic

4 - AS Monaco (8 matches) - Danijel Subašić
4 - Lille OSC (8 matches) - Vincent Enyeama
4 - Paris St.Germain (8 matches) - Salvatore Sirigu
4 - Juventus Turin (6 matches) - Gigi Buffon
4 - Liverpool FC (6 matches) - Simon Mignolet
4 - SSC Napoli (6 matches) - Pepe Reina

5 – Olympique Marseille (8 matches) – Steve Mandanda
5 - Stade Reims (8 matches) - Kossi Agassa
5 – Atlético Madrid (7 matches) – Thibaut Courtois
5 - Borussia Dortmund (7 matches) - Roman Weidenfeller
5 – FC Barcelona (7 matches) – Victor Valdés
5 – FC Granada (7 matches) - Roberto
5 - West Bromwich Albion (6 matches) - Boaz Myhill (4) / B.Foster (2) / L.Daniels (1)
5 - West Ham United  (6 matches) - Jussi Jääskeläinen

Order: 1st number of goals, 2nd number of matches, 3rd alphabetical
Data up to 2013/09/29  23:59 GMT+2


Stats up to 30 Sep 2013, 23:15 GMT+2:

Inter have conceded 3 goals.

1 against Juve,1 against Fiorentina and yesterday against Cagliari.

Oops. Will correct that ASAP. In the next issue of the table it'll be fixed. Thx!

With the CL and EL matches this week, we have:

Stats up to 03 Oct 2013, 23:15 GMT+2:

Roma, Spurs, and Bayern all in the top 10  

Motogp69 wrote:Roma, Spurs, and Bayern all in the top 10  

Bayern ruined their stats badly with the SuperCups, btw.

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

1 - AS Roma (7 matches) - Morgan de Sanctis
2 - Southampton FC (7 matches) - Artur Boruc
3 - FC Bayern München (8 matches) - Manuel Neuer

4 - Lille OSC (9 matches) - Vincent Enyeama
4 - Chelsea FC (7 matches) - Petr Cech
4 - SSC Napoli (7 matches) - Pepe Reina

5 - AS Monaco (9 matches) - Danijel Subašić
5 - Paris St.Germain (9 matches) - Salvatore Sirigu
5 - Liverpool FC (7 matches) - Simon Mignolet
5 - Tottenham Hotspur (7 matches) - Hugo Lloris
5 - West Ham United (7 matches) - Jussi Jääskeläinen

6 – Stade Reims (9 matches) – Kossi Agassa
6 – Atletico Madrid (8 matches) – Thibaut Courtois
6 – FC Barcelona (8 matches) – Victor Valdés
6 – Inter Milan (7 matches) – Samir Handanovic
6 - Juventus Turin (7 matches) - Gigi Buffon
6 - West Bromwich Albion (7 matches) - Boaz Myhill (5) / B.Foster (2) / L.Daniels (1)

Order: 1st number of goals, 2nd number of matches, 3rd alphabetical
Data up to 2013/10/06 23:00 GMT+2


Stats up to 06 Oct 2013, 23:10 GMT+2:

Barca above every team that went to semi final CL last year

Top Defense Statistics 2013/14:

1 – AS Roma (8 matches) – Morgan de Sanctis

3 – Southampton FC (8 matches) – Artur Boruc

4 – Lille OSC (10 matches) – Vincent Enyeama
4 – FC Bayern München (9 matches) – Manuel Neuer

5 – Paris St.Germain (10 matches) – Salvatore Sirigu
5 – Chelsea FC (8 matches) – Petr Cech
5 – Tottenham Hotspur (8 matches) – Hugo Lloris

6 – FC Barcelona (9 matches) – Victor Valdés
6 – SSC Napoli (8 matches) – Pepe Reina
6 – West Bromwich Albion (8 matches) – Boaz Myhill (6) / B.Foster (2) / L.Daniels (1)

7 – AS Monaco (10 matches) – Danijel Subašić
7 – Atletico Madrid (9 matches) – Thibaut Courtois
7 – Borussia Dortmund (9 matches) – Roman Weidenfeller (8 ) / M.Langerak (1)
7 – Liverpool FC (8 matches) – Simon Mignolet
7 – Stoke City (8 matches) – Asmir Begović

Order: 1st number of goals, 2nd number of matches, 3rd alphabetical
Data up to 2013/10/20  23:00 GMT+2


Stats up to 20 Oct 2013, 23:00 GMT+2:


More power to AS Roma!