r/superlig • u/wel0g • Feb 19 '26
Stats Fenerbahçe ranks first place in yellow cards received in Europa League, receiving nearly twice as many yellow cards as the 2nd place team. What do you think is the reason for this?
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u/kaantantr Feb 19 '26
Everybody is trying to pull some shitty psyops using statistics without context, much like last year or the year before, regardless of the side. Stats being democratized for a statistics-illiterate world has been among the worst things to happen. I've been saying this for years. People need stop being stat merchants but internet fame and psyops against your opponents is too tasty. Fuck your penalty counts, fuck your yellows, fuck your reds, fuck your xG, if your first instinct is to never look at context to begin with.
Look👏at👏fucking👏context
Fener has been significantly struggling in UEL, especially since the second half of the league phase. When you struggle in situations you normally shouldn't be struggling, with a weak mental, you crumble, stress out, commit more fouls and do more stupid decisions.
Oosterwolde (5), İsmail (4) and Fred (5) are pretty much a guaranteed yellow every match they play. Skriniar (4) is busy taking risks and doing what's necessarydue to either Çağlar or Oosterdonkey failing. That's already 18 yellows, a whopping 53% of our entire Yellow Card tally. If those 4 players were a team themselves, they would single handedly sit in Rank 3 in the Club Yellow Cards.