Having more counting defensive stats in different systems isn't really indicative of anything. Arsenal's system has their midfielders and wingers winning the ball further up the pitch, so no one on our defense has high counting stats. Yet they were the best defense in the league and gave up half as many goals as Spurs.
Yeah that's definitely a reason for it too. Arsenal retain possession for sustained periods of time more than Spurs, whereas the stats seem to indicate Spurs have a lot of possession but must be giving it up and winning the ball back more.
Yeah I don’t see how they could justify that with some of the other bans they’ve given out.
I think the difference here is that the charge is that he actually took steps in game as a result of betting.
Statement makes it seem like he is (no pun intended) doubling down
Yea. To me that’s a clear line.
Well they banned some lower level player for 12 years for the same offense.
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North American leagues have contractors they've hired to monitor betting markets for activity by all the players, coaches, referees. I would assume that the PL does too. They wouldn't be charging him without overwhelming proof, usually including GPS. It's hard for me to believe that he wouldn't be guilty.
You mean like GPS to confirm that Paqueta and the bettors were in the same place? That still doesn’t concretely tie him to the scheme.
It doesn't unless he was at the same place at the same time as them when they bet. Then that's probably enough. Whenever someone logs into a betting platform, I think most people don't know this but the exact place you logged in from, and the date and time is being permanently logged in some database.
