{"id":583484,"date":"2021-02-12T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=583484"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:02:49","slug":"everton-interested-sc-freiburg-centre-back-keven-schlotterbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/12\/everton-interested-sc-freiburg-centre-back-keven-schlotterbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Interested in SC Freiburg Centre-Back Keven Schlotterbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton are reportedly interested in SC Freiburg&#8217;s centre-back Keven Schlotterbeck, according to Christian Falk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TRUE \u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Everton<\/a> is interested in Keven Schlotterbeck (23), center back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scfreiburg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@scfreiburg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ei5rZF6j2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0Ei5rZF6j2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Falk (@cfbayern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfbayern\/status\/1360277946976641028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Everton Interested in SC Freiburg Centre-back Keven Schlotterbeck<\/h2>\n<h3>Keven Schlotterbeck to Bolster Everton Defence<\/h3>\n<p>Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/11\/everton-edge-tottenham-hotspur-in-fa-cup-fifth-round-thriller-as-individual-errors-cost-jose-mourinhos-men-once-more\/\" target=\"_self\">nine-goal thriller<\/a>, Everton progressed into the FA Cup quarter-finals, beating Tottenham Hotspur. This extraordinary game saw both teams throw caution to the wind. Both sides&#8217; defences were almost non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>But since Carlo Ancelotti has taken the reigns at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a>, they have conceded fewer goals per Premier League match (1.33 per match vs 1.47 per game last season).<\/p>\n<p>Compared to their defeated opponents, Spurs, they have conceded six more league goals, with a total of 28, the seventh-best record in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Ancelotti has never finished below the top six after a full season at a whole host of clubs across various leagues. This includes the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a> and AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>A defence that is the seventh-best at keeping out goals still has room for improvement, especially if Ancelotti wants to maintain his fantastic record.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Keven Schlotterbeck.<\/p>\n<h3>Keven Schlotterbeck: A Profile at a Glance<\/h3>\n<p>Schlotterbeck is a 23-year-old German centre-back who currently plays with SC Freiburg.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s featured 16 times in all competitions, conceding 24 goals in the matches he was involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Schlotterbeck had a particularly good loan spell at Union Berlin last season, after joining Freiburg in July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin were newly promoted but managed to reach a respectable 11th place, with the eighth-best Bundesliga defensive record.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the 6&#8217;2&#8243; defender has the most interceptions, blocks and clearances per game for Freiburg and the fourth-highest tackles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoscored.com\/Teams\/50\/Show\/Germany-Freiburg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">per match<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is also mostly confident on the ball, completing the fifth-most passes per game at 79.3% accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>On paper and on the pitch, Schlotterbeck is a solid defender with a good grounding in German football.<\/p>\n<p>He must now make the leap into the Premier League. But at the age of 23, he has plenty of time to settle in England and sharpen his defending skills.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"etUvN-HcQxJ90ZL0fNWGcQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1299630279\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'etUvN-HcQxJ90ZL0fNWGcQ',sig:'PE3Eog7vZ5pQD9tti_0NNRyM7SNKpLDKl2YQpOFdhqc=',w:'594px',h:'381px',items:'1299630279',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton are reportedly interested in SC Freiburg&#8217;s centre-back Keven Schlotterbeck, according to Christian Falk. TRUE \u2705 @Everton is interested in Keven Schlotterbeck (23), center back @scfreiburg pic.twitter.com\/0Ei5rZF6j2 \u2014 Christian Falk (@cfbayern) February 12, 2021 Everton Interested in SC Freiburg Centre-back Keven Schlotterbeck Keven Schlotterbeck to Bolster Everton Defence Following a nine-goal thriller, Everton progressed into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":583504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,2,3,7188],"tags":[7391,145,45,8236,8235,40,136],"class_list":["post-583484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-everton","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-bundesliga-transfer-rumours","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-everton","tag-everton-transfers","tag-keven-schlotterbeck-everton-move","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}