A thread on why matic is very underrated and Why he is our most important midfielder

Let’s look at the effect with/without matic in the side
With Matic starting
Games: 38
Wins: 23
Draws: 7
Defeats: 8
Points per game: 2.0
Win rate: 60.5%
Goals per game: 1.7
Goals against per game: 0.8

Without Matic starting
Games: 38
Wins: 17
Draws: 10
Defeats: 11
Points per game: 1.6
Win rate: 44.7%
Goals per game: 1.6
Goals against per game: 1.1

He makes a clear impact to the side

Let’s look at Matic’s career achievements

• 2X premier league titles
• Fa cup
• Primera liga
• Slovak cup
• Taça de liga
• Pfa toty
• 2 Fifpro world 11 nominations
• Portuguese league poty
• Serbia poty 2X

He’s defensive work and passing is quite clear of most midfielders look at the stats here for example

Clean sheets

Matic played 3 games in the league before December 29th

We kept 2 clean sheets in 19 games

Matic was injured when we went on a run of 14 games without a clean sheet and the game where he returned we kept a clean sheet

He helped us massively

He was involved in a run of 10 clean sheets in 18 premier league matches

Impact

He’s importance to the team is so big

Without him in big games
First leg vs city 3-0 down at half time. We bring on matic at half time and the game finishes 3-1 so 1-0 when matic was on the pitch

He also started the next game where we won 1-0 and scoring a goal

Our quarter final game matic played and we won 1-0 keeping another clean sheet

He got benched vs Sevilla and we conceded 2 goals losing 2-1

Matic is also an elite dribbler and so good from bringing it out from the back

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