Here is my summary of Jitka Klimkova's reign, backed up by publicly available statistics. ⬇️
**Please note that some statistics are not available for certain matches, or are only partially available**
Jitka Klimkova
Played - 29
Won - 5
Drawn - 5
Lost - 19
Scored - 14 (0.48 per game)
Scored more than 1 goal in a match - Has only happened 3 times in 29 attempts, and only against AFC opposition (🇰🇷🇵🇭🇻🇳)
Conceded - 54 (1.86 per game)
Clean Sheets - 6 (🇰🇷🇨🇿🏴🇲🇽🇻🇳🇳🇴)
Passes completed: 6579/9287 (70.8%)
Highest - v 🇻🇳 (2-0 July 10, 2023) 85%
Lowest - v 🇺🇲 (0-5 January 21, 2023) 57%
Mean completed passes per game: 263
Mean Posession: 44.46%
🇳🇿 v 🌏
Shots on 🎯/Shots Attempted
64/206 (31%) for 14 ⚽
14.71 Shots per goal scored
🌏 v 🇳🇿
Shots on 🎯/Shots Attempted
143/376 (38%) for 54 ⚽
6.96 Shots per goal scored
•This simply shows that we are inefficient in our play in front of goal - It takes more than double the amount of shots than that of our opponents before we hit the back of the net.
•Not only are we inefficient/profligate in front of goal in the final ⅓, we give our opponents far too many chances in return - A staggering 170+ extra attempts on goal we've faced across 29 matches so far.
•In shots on target against us, our opposition has had more than 3 shots on 🎯 in 16/29 games.
•On only 2/29 occasions have we managed more than 3 shots on target - 🇻🇳 (2-0)/🇵🇭 (0-1)
•Furthermore, it's in these two matches against 🇻🇳/🇵🇭 that we've hit 25% (16/64) of our shots on target in the Klimkova reign - We are just over two years in, and those matches represent about 7% of our fixtures in that time!
From day dot under Klimkova there has been no improvement, and some might rightly argue that we've gone backwards... Of course a manager is nothing without player's, so to that end she has been let down badly as well. In saying that, she is the one selecting them so something needs to change quickly in that regard as well.
But as far as I have witnessed, there has been no progression whatsoever under her management. That she has another 4 years on her contract is right up there in New Zealand Footballing heritage as one of the worst/costliest mistakes to be made by NZF.
Stats don't paint the whole picture of course, but it doesn't make for nice reading. If you've been watching along like I have, then they certainly correlate well with some of the absolute dog
shark performances that have occured under her watch...
Anyway, hope someone found some value out of all this. Sorry for the longish post too.