QPR's Massimo Luongo is the Championship's most dispossessed player; Leeds new boy Stuart Dallas close behind Queens Park Rangers' Massimo Luongo has been dispossessed more times than any other Championship player, with Leeds United's Stuart Dallas next on the list. View image | gettyimages.com Queens Park Rangers midfielder Massimo Luongo has been dispossessed more times than any other player in the Championship so far this season. Luongo joined QPR from Swindon Town over the summer, and has figured in every league game to date for Chris Ramsey's side. However, the signs that he is still adapting to playing in the second tier have been evident so far, with the ex Tottenham Hotspur man giving the ball away on 27 occasions. Team Dispossessed Appearances Mins Played Massimo Luongo QPR 27 8 692 Stuart Dallas Leeds 23 8 664 Charlie Austin QPR 21 8 693 Nick Blackman Reading 21 8 537 Diego Fabbrini Middlesbrough 21 8 472 Leeds United's Stuart Dallas is in danger of catching Luongo. The Northern Ireland international has impressed during his short time at Elland Road, and he has often surrendered possession due to his willingness to get at defenders, but he will be eager to protect the ball better in the future. Also on the list of the Championship's most dispossessed players are Luongo's QPR teammate Charlie Austin, Reading's Nick Blackman and Middlesbrough's Diego Fabbrini. The trio have all given the ball away 21 times so far this season, and they will be aiming to be more careful in possession in future.
Apart from the obvious; what does this really tell us? (i.e. he gets caught on the ball, exposed without any outlet ball or support too often??)
Haven't seen many games this season but in the ones I did these 2 were about our worse players for this reason. Austin scored but that was about all he did. He continually gave it away. From the praise Luongo gets he must be doing something good, but he were crapp those games, lost possession a lot, and didn't do much.
Too many harping on about Henry I see to really see the truth I think one poster said that this new lad was our best player
I suppose you could argue if you get the ball a lot there is more chance of being dispossessed. The same argument would apply to Bartons passing.
Its so weird that you see this a s a negative and that you celebrate annonymity Henry isn’t going to be on the list because he doesn’t do anything, is a passenger and doesn’t get on the ball. Luongo behind only Austin has been our most effective player this season. He is taking things on a dribbles with the ball. Sometimes he will get tackled but often he will lay on the assist like he did for Chery’s winner against Huddersfield or his second against Rotheram Here’s an article from last season. Top 20 most tackled players includes Silva, Sterling, Lukaku, Sanchez and Hazard 7th, Costa 6th, Aguero 4th and Berahinho 3rd who at the time of the article had been in form http://www.caughtoffside.com/2014/1...liverpool-chelsea-tottenham-hotspur-stars/18/ Attacking players need to take risks. But on the team for Fulham thread you defended Henry’s lack forward passes that he doesn’t even need to pass forward apparently. Well some players need to take risks and try and create something and you can see from the names on the list that it isn’t necessarily a bad thing
Luongo is a great little player but does get tackled too often He nees to be stronger In this manner he reminds me of Matty Phillips two years ago
It's a nonsense statistic. Luongo is "dispossessed" often because he tries to do the difficult thing- take players on. If he got the ball and passed it sideways he'd rarely be dispossessed but wouldn't have any impact so I'm glad he's trying things. Good player currently and could be a very, very good one.
Meaningless stat, Luongo is often the only player offering any sort of outlet and usually with very little support, so of course he's going to have a higher chance of being tackled. Of course he can improve loads but he's a genuinely positive player and that should be celebrated.
Massimo Luongo Stuart Dallas Charlie Austin Nick Blackman Diego Fabbrini Effectively a list of the players who have impressed the most in the legue so far. Austin top scorer, Blackman have been very good for Reading promting Premier League links, Leeds and especially Dallas have impressed this season, and Fabbrini leading the line for the divisions best side and potential top scorer in the league. And of course there is Luongo, the QPR player with the most MOTM awards. Conclusion; players taking risks are the most likely to succeed and at the same time get disposessed the most.
Yes that is true but not all the players can be like this or the team will never have the ball. We want the players with the best ball holding skills to be the ones holding the ball. In the games I have seen this season Austin couldn't keep the ball, he either lost it (usually) or scored. I read he and Luongo have done better since.
Austin loses it a lot less when he gets some support which generally requires Faurlin to play and pass us up the pitch. Despite his goal he was pretty useless (through little fault of his own) against Forest because the midfield was mostly 40-50 yards away.
Agree that was a part of the problem in that game, but a player better than holding the ball that day than Austin was, would have held the ball up better while the support got up in support. That game our best attacking moves through the midfield broke down when Austin got involved because he couldn't control the ball or passed it into very inaccurately.
A completely pointless stat. My lad plays at a good level of youth football in the centre of midfield. He is encouraged to collect the ball from the back 4 or keeper and re-cycle possession, playing forward passes whenever possible. This means he has a lot of touches of the ball and therefore, as he's obviously not perfect, is liable to lose possession at times. I reckon his pass completion would still be above 90% mind you, but it's obvious that, if you touch the ball more, you're more likely to have a higher percentage against you for losing it.
