Excited for the W today.
Ortega, Lewis, Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Kova, KDB, Bernardo, Savinho, Foden, Haaland.
Great to see you back posting. Hope you’ll be active on the New Mysic thread in 25They do work though. How many games have we had fewer opportunities to score than the opposition in this run? Even getting beat 0-4 by Spurs the xG was similar and we had 23 shots to their 9. We should have been out of sight against Sporting and Brighton with multiple chances at 0-1 up in both games.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the tactics, the players just aren’t playing well or enacting those tactics well or finishing our chances.
Our xG was 2.30 from 23 shots.They do work though. How many games have we had fewer opportunities to score than the opposition in this run? Even getting beat 0-4 by Spurs the xG was similar and we had 23 shots to their 9. We should have been out of sight against Sporting and Brighton with multiple chances at 0-1 up in both games.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the tactics, the players just aren’t playing well or enacting those tactics well or finishing our chances.
xG (and the resulting XPoints) is a really good underlying stat to determine how a team/player is performing. This is predominantly what bookies use to price markets initially).Our xG was 2.30 from 23 shots.
Their xG was 2.73 from 9 shots.
Put another way our shots were 3 times worse than theirs on average.
That's why the tactics aren't working (that and they are mind numbingly boring). We're creating poor quality chances and the opposition are creating good quality chances.
(Also xG is bollocks for Americans imo)
I feel a bit similar. It's the law of averages, even when we were really, really shite back in the day we sometimes won. The opposition are beyond shite themselves so that is another positive factor. On the other hand lose this and we are really, really fucked.Would liked to have been there today, I’ve got a feeling we’re going to win.