Man Utd v AC Milan (agg 3 - 2) - RTE, ITV

kryogen

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I know Milan were crap last night, but here's an interesting stat, pouring scorn on the suggestion (from some quarters, not here I might add) that Uniteds victory last night was diminished because Milan are an ageing team...

Starting XIs, 10 March
UNITED: van der Sar (39); Neville (35), Ferdinand (31), Vidic (28), Evra (28); Valencia (24), Fletcher (26), Park (29), Scholes (35), Nani (23); Rooney (24)
Average age: 29.27

AC MILAN: Abbiatti (32); Abate (23), Bonera (28), Silva (27), Jankulovski (32); Flamini (26), Pirlo (30), Ambrosini (32); Huntelaar (26), Borriello (27), Ronaldinho (29)
Average age: 28.36

From ManUtd.com
Its us who are the ageing ones!!

get in there! special mention goes to VDS, Scholes and Neville, couldnt have done it without you lads

keane2097

Standard statistical practise would be to take out the oldest and youngest player from each team and calculate the average without them I believe...

United's average, for example, is probably quite skewed by VDS, while Abate brings down AC's figure by a nice bit as well.

ShiverinEskimo

I think alot of the comments were directed towards toward substitutions. United brought on Gibson (22), Rafael (19) and Berbatov (29). Milan brought in Inzaghi (36), Beckham (34) and Seedorf (33).

Average age of Subs:

United - 23
Milan - 34

Not exactly what you need to "freshen up" the team at the 60 minute mark.

PHB

United aren't an especially young team to be honest. But the age is where age can be lived with, primarily in defence. Age in midfield and up front is a killer though, if past one or maybe 2 players. Also, the benches were massively different in age.

marko91

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I know Milan were crap last night, but here's an interesting stat, pouring scorn on the suggestion (from some quarters, not here I might add) that Uniteds victory last night was diminished because Milan are an ageing team...

Starting XIs, 10 March
UNITED: van der Sar (39); Neville (35), Ferdinand (31), Vidic (28), Evra (28); Valencia (24), Fletcher (26), Park (29), Scholes (35), Nani (23); Rooney (24)
Average age: 29.27

AC MILAN: Abbiatti (32); Abate (23), Bonera (28), Silva (27), Jankulovski (32); Flamini (26), Pirlo (30), Ambrosini (32); Huntelaar (26), Borriello (27), Ronaldinho (29)
Average age: 28.36

From ManUtd.com
Its us who are the ageing ones!!

dont think you should be gloating about how old your team is:pac:

Columbia

keane2097 wrote: »

Standard statistical practise would be to take out the oldest and youngest player from each team and calculate the average without them I believe...

United's average, for example, is probably quite skewed by VDS, while Abate brings down AC's figure by a nice bit as well.

Sounds like you're describing standard political statistic practise, alter the data any way you can so that it shows the result you want :pac:

28064212

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

I think alot of the comments were directed towards toward substitutions. United brought on Gibson (22), Rafael (19) and Berbatov (29). Milan brought in Inzaghi (36), Beckham (34) and Seedorf (33).

Average age of Subs:

United - 23
Milan - 34

Not exactly what you need to "freshen up" the team at the 60 minute mark.

^-- This tbh. Considering most of United's average is in Neville (who's 3rd/4th choice right-back), VDS (who still has another year minimum and is one of United's top performers) and Scholes (...ok this one's a bit of a worry, we do need a creative midfielder to replace him), it's easy to see why Milan are the ones who have serious squad problems coming up

kryogen

am i the only one genuinely amazed and sort of awed that Clarence Seedorf is "only" 33 though?

JimsAlterEgo

kryogen wrote: »

am i the only one genuinely amazed and sort of awed that Clarence Seedorf is "only" 33 though?

he must have started playing at 13. Seems to have been around 20 years.

syngindub

VDS 39..well impressed

Mars Bar

syngindub wrote: »

VDS 39..well impressed

Yeah it's really good going. There is a bit about it in the match programme from Wednesday. With his year extension, he'll still be playing for us at the age of 40!

JP Liz V1

Roonaldo Roonaldo

That was a great win for United

JerryHandbag

marko91 wrote: »

dont think you should be gloating about how old your team is:pac:

You say old, I say experienced :pac:
The older the fiddle....

kryogen

JerryHandbag wrote: »

The older the fiddle....

the easier to break?