After Connor Roberts’ red card against Brentford, Vincent Kompany has managed to earn more red cards than Sean Dyche had managed in any season in his tenure with Burnley.

Under Dyche:

Season Red Cards Player
2013/14 1 Tom Heaton (vs. Brighton)
2014/15 2 Ashley Barnes (vs. Brighton), Michael Duff (vs. West Ham)
2015/16 0 -
2016/17 2 Ashley Barnes (vs. Swansea), Jeff Hendrick (vs. Watford)
2017/18 0 -
2018/19 1 Robbie Brady (vs. Huddersfield)
2019/20 0 -
2020/21 0 -
2021/22 1* Nathan Collins (vs. Brentford)

(* - Matthew Lowton would later receive a red card against Aston Villa, but by then Dyche had been sacked)

Under Kompany:

Season Red Cards Player
2022/23 2 Ian Maatsen (vs. Blackpool), Connor Roberts (vs. 'Boro)
2023/24 (9 games in) 3 Anass Zaroury (vs. Chelsea), Lyle Foster (vs. Forest), Connor Roberts (vs. Brentford)

Other interesting factoids:

  • Vincent Kompany is averaging more than 4.54 red cards per season.

  • Sean Dyche averaged 0.78 red cards per season (0.8 if you count his departing in 21/22

  • Burnley currently sit 18th on the fair play table (behind Wolves and Liverpool). This would be their lowest position ever in a modern PL season.

  • Burnley under Dyche would often rank as one of the Premier League’s cleanest teams (statistically), finishing in the bottom half of the Fair Play table only twice (with one being their relegation season in 21/22, the other in 18/19). In 20/21 they’d finish as the second cleanest team in the league behind Liverpool with a previous high of 4th and 6th.

  • Stubborn_Shove@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    the “new look” Burnley are currently much dirtier than a team under Dyche

    That’s quite a leap. Making this sort of claim would require a qualitative analysis of their play, the number of red cards is not that meaningful. You haven’t even indicated whether they were straight reds or for two yellows.

  • BananaSoprano@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The hype generated around Kompany has hurt him massively. Of course Burnley were going to struggle this season, but pundits were talking like he was the new Guardiola.

  • ZapZappyZap@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was 100% and this subreddit was 100% wrong.

    I told you it was the same old Burnley. I said the club culture doesn’t change, that Burnley will come in the prem completely outclassed, and start playing dangerous football again, going onto the pitch to hurt people.

    I fucking knew it. And the amount of bullshit I heard from so many people here about the “new Burnley”. Same old Burnley. You can all eat shit.