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What Is a Clean Sheet — and Why Defenders Love Them?

Photo: Master Sgt. Lance Cheung, U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons You hear it after almost every match: "another clean sheet." It sounds like laundry. In football, it is one of the most respected achievements a defence can earn. Here is what it means, and why the players who earn them treasure them so much. The simple meaning A clean sheet means a team finishes a match without conceding a goal. If your team wins 1-0, draws 0-0 or wins 4-0, the defence and goalkeeper have kept a clean sheet. If the other team scores even once — even in the last minute of a 5-1 win — the clean sheet is gone. The name comes from the old days, when match records were written on paper and a team's goals-against column stayed blank: a clean sheet of paper. Why defenders and goalkeepers love them Goals win highlights; clean sheets win contracts. For a goalkeeper, the clean sheet is the clearest measure of his own performance — the forwards have their goals, the goalkee...

Liverpool vs Arsenal: Matchweek 9 Preview — The Champions' Hardest Test at Anfield

Photo: Colin Pyle, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The biggest match of Matchweek 9 comes last on the biggest stage. Liverpool host Arsenal at Anfield on Sunday 1 November, kick-off 16:30 UK time — fourth against second, and a match that could reshape the top of the table. What is at stake Arsenal, the defending champions, sit second on 21 points, level with leaders Manchester City and behind them only on goal difference. Liverpool are fourth on 15 points. Win on Sunday, and Liverpool close the gap to the top two to just three points. Lose, and the gap grows to nine — a long way back, even in November. The form guide Liverpool's last five league results read D-W-L-W-W. The one defeat was a heavy one — 3-0 at home to Manchester City — but Andoni Iraola's side have responded with two straight league wins, including a 2-0 victory over Brighton last weekend, and they knocked Chelsea out of the Carabao Cup in midweek. Arsenal's last five rea...

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Arsenal — Madueke's Late Strike Wins It with Arsenal's Only Shot on Target

Photo: Mat Fascione, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Arsenal did it the hard way at the City Ground on Sunday. For 80 minutes Mikel Arteta's side dominated the ball and created almost nothing — then substitute Noni Madueke cut inside, his shot deflected in, and the Gunners left Nottingham with a 1-0 win, all three points, and second place in the Premier League. The numbers tell the story of the struggle. Arsenal finished with around three-quarters of the possession, yet Madueke's goal was their only shot on target all afternoon — and their first. It takes them to 18 points, three behind leaders Manchester City. For Forest, a third straight defeat drops them into the relegation zone, 18th on five points, and they are still waiting for their first home league goal of the season. The goal There was only one, and it arrived on 80 minutes. Declan Rice worked the ball to Madueke, who had come on at half-time, and the winger cut inside from the left and fired towards goal. The ...

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