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Clean Sheet
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When the opposition doesn't score. The term comes from the days when stats were written on paper, and a match with no goals conceded left the sheet clean. Keepers and defenders track their clean sheet totals, and records like Chelsea's 24 in 2004-05 get remembered. It's one of the main ways to measure defensive performance.
Petr Čech kept 220 clean sheets in the Premier League, the most in competition history, with his peak coming during Chelsea's dominant mid-2000s when their defense was virtually impenetrable.
Robbie
Jan 23, 2026
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