Premier League Games | 26/27/28 December '25

Maresca taught Garnacho discipline as a winger.

At United he always looked like a headless chicken, but now im seeing a player who thinks about his passing more often.

Also, what a stupid goal for Villa to concede.
 
Totally deserved, don't expect anything from these lot on Tuesday folks, looks like they're cooked.
 
The stats were showing this all season.

Villas run was unsustainable, they dont have the squad depth and have been over achieving the metrics by alot.

The game is not over, and they are still competing for a champions league spot, but their winning run was mostly down to luck.
 
Every slap in the face to the bollocks that is xG is a good thing
xG is an excellent barometer to the quality of chances teams create and concede.

It’s much better than just ‘Shots’ and ‘Shots on Target’ stats. You can have a shot on target from 40 yards out that’s blocked by a player five yards away that wouldn’t go in in a month of Sundays. However, a 0.9 xG chance tells you a great deal more as does a 0.01 xG chance which Villa often score.

That Villa are so outperforming their xG by the amount they are tells us a lot. Whenever I’ve seen them, they tend to be shit but score great goals from outside the box. In another season, none of these wonder goals might have gone in and they could well be in the bottom three.
 
Our refs never used to do this European ‘give a foul for a dive after any and all contact’ shit. These days it’s rife for it. Makes the game much worse.
 
xG is an excellent barometer to the quality of chances teams create and concede.

It’s much better than just ‘Shots’ and ‘Shots on Target’ stats. You can have a shot on target from 40 yards out that’s blocked by a player five yards away that wouldn’t go in in a month of Sundays. However, a 0.9 xG chance tells you a great deal more as does a 0.01 xG chance which Villa often score.

That Villa are so outperforming their xG by the amount they are tells us a lot. Whenever I’ve seen them, they tend to be shit but score great goals from outside the box. In another season, none of these wonder goals might have gone in and they could well be in the bottom three.
xG is just another statistic for 'moneyball' inspired tacticos to wank over
 

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