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Robin Roefs 🇳🇱 compendium


It’s not 10.1 saves it’s definite goals prevented.. they don’t count easy saves by the look of the stats
 
Sounds like he’s had an encouraging break out season. Feels like a big gamble, but I guess every signing is.

I think you know what you’re going to get with a more established keeper, but hopefully he can maintain / exceed the level he’s performed at.
 
kinjo said:
It’s not 10.1 saves it’s definite goals prevented.. they don’t count easy saves by the look of the stats
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That’s not how it works

It’s a running tally of the xG every shot he faces. If he faces 100 shots with 0.1 xG and concedes 9 goals

He’d be expected to concede 10 goals so outperformed by 1 goal
 
Hello all, I've seen all of Roefs' senior team games as I have a season ticket at NEC. Made an account here as I wanted to see what y'all thought of him and will probably be following the club if he actually gets some time on the pitch.

So some context:

Roefs was always very highly rated in the academy at our club. Joined senior team training camps from age 16 for example. Last summer, we sold Jasper Cillessen (ex Barca, Valencia, Dutch national team and also from our youth academy) so that Roefs would get enough playtime.

Seen a lot of questions here on his passing and that his stats on this aren't great. This, in my opinion, is down mostly to our playstyle last year. We started out by playing from the back quite a bit, but then some of our best build up players got injured or lost form, so most of the season he was just told to hoof it long to strikers that generally weren't great at receiving those types of passes. I think with the right players around him at the back, he's above average on the ball. He's confident with both legs and generally has a decent to good pass. Also not shy

His main weakness last year was that we conceded 2 or 3 goals from direct free kicks where Roefs didn't look well-positioned. This was all in the first half of the season though and he seems to have learned from that.

Aside from that fact that he's obviously pretty good at saving shots, the thing that we always really liked in the stadium was how much he comes off his line to grab a cross. He does that way better than the far more experienced Cillessen.

I really look forward to seeing him in the PL, hopefully he becomes the first choice GK.
 
BoshItLikeBardo said:
Was thinking we’d make up for the Xhaka deal by going for slightly cheaper options in net and up front than we’d originally planned. Fine by me like, I’ve got faith in the Speakers/Ghisolfi double act to unearth a couple of diamonds.

Sends Trai Hume an email afterwards going ‘how did I do?’
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What's this "cheaper option" that keeps coming up here? We've offered €15m for Bulka and €13.5m for Roefs. They are in the same bracket price wise.
 
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