Raheem Sterling & Statistics
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine is joined by Alex Stewart to discuss Raheem Sterling; his career, revival under Pep Guardiola, and the use of statistics to negate irrational narratives.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:36.1 | I'm Joe Devine and welcome to Whiteboard Football Extra. |
| 0:40.3 | In this series of short podcasts, we'll be talking to the writers of our videos, taking a more in-depth look at the topics they choose to discuss. |
| 0:48.3 | We'll also be engaging with user comments, so if after watching a video you have follow-up questions, we have an opportunity to answer them. |
| 1:01.0 | Underrated or overrated, depending on who you speak to. Rahim Sterling certainly splits opinion, |
| 1:08.0 | but the stats show that he's currently enjoying his best season in terms of |
| 1:12.2 | attacking output. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm joined by Alex Stewart to talk about his resurgence under Pep Guardiola, his international |
| 1:19.3 | hopes, and the suave of potentially unfair negative criticism leveled against him. |
| 1:25.2 | Alex, in the video you say that Rahim Sterling should be considered as one of England's key |
| 1:30.0 | players, particularly given his revival of sorts under Pep Cardiola, but how much of |
| 1:35.5 | Sterling's improvement is down to how he's handled tactically or otherwise by Cardiola? |
| 1:41.4 | And do England need to consider his strengths in this regard to get the |
| 1:45.5 | best out of him? And further to that, is he key enough for Gareth Southgate to bend |
| 1:50.6 | England's tactical approach to suit him? I think in response to the first point, it's worth |
| 1:57.6 | noting that Guardiola's used Sterling in eight different positions in both the |
| 2:05.3 | Premier League and the Champions League. So he's played him everywhere from as a wingback to |
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