Match of the Day - 2018/19

[MillionMilesAway]

Imo Murphy realized just after opening his mouth that he was shoving Hughes under the bus so he took up another few minutes to shove the players under the bus. And then to hide his criticism of Hughes’ tactics further when he had the opportunity he again threw the players under the bus.

If any of them could be bothered I bet they’d say that it was Hughes who said dont press and they knew damn well that his tactics were childish.

I thought he was mostly saying that as they weren't pressing, it was odd that they didn't defend en masse either. I know the front three are quick, but there wasn't a lot of effort to get back to help.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

How the fuc* are the Expected Goals worked out? Apparently we should have had 2.54 against their 1.88?? Unbelievable that their chances were that good.

They had six on target to our eight. Not bad six goals from eight on target. I would have thought six goals from eight was infinitely better than one from six, and a pen to boot! But that's mathematicians for yer. God, how we've suffered at the hands of those bastards.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Crouch would have made that list if he was still a Dipper !

And they would have had Yeats and Hansen in the mix, too!

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

It's still a load of absolute shite. It still completely ignores everything except actual shots and it still completely ignores the actual ability of the player shooting. To xG, Kevin De Bruyne having a clear shot from 25 yards is no better a chance than Jesus Navas having the same shot. It also thinks if you get played clear through on goal but the keeper tackles you as you round him, it wasn't even a chance as you didn't shoot, same for last ditch sliding tackles or interceptions that prevent tap ins.

It is hideously oversimplified

I think it is what it is. If you batter a team but don't score and they get one goal on the break - think Middlesbrough back when they did us like that - then xG will give a reasonable quantitative view of how that game panned out. In a tight game it will be different. At the end of the day to produce stats you need to quantify things and rating chances to score is highly subjective when you go beyond the ones that went in and the ones that didn't. Over a season it should give a reasonable view of how well you played. This link below has the full table with xG for and against. Seems pretty accurate to me.

https://understat.com/league/EPL

 

[its grim up north]

So much editing that it will look exactly like that how we scraped a 6-1 win ..

Southampton edged out in 7 goal thriller at the Etihad.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The PL show tonight had Andy Cole on picking what he thought were the best ever Premier League goals. Surprise surprise top 3 had two rags goals ( one was his the cheeky cnut ) and Shearer with the best..........I was shocked.......not

 

[bluethrunthru]

Think what you like about Charlie Austin's abilities but in the post match interview you saw anger and passion it has to be said.

 

[bumbleblue]

Think what you like about Charlie Austin's abilities but in the post match interview you saw anger and passion it has to be said.

That was the best bit of the whole show.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Hes right to be annoyed being denied a perfectly good goal but Watford were also denied a stonewall penalty and I didn’t hear any of their team bemoaning their lot so vociferously during an interview , the officials were awful though, what the point of the official stood next to the goal is I don’t know, he had a perfect view of both incidents...

 

[richardtheref]

Hes right to be annoyed being denied a perfectly good goal but Watford were also denied a stonewall penalty and I didn’t hear any of their team bemoaning their lot so vociferously during an interview , the officials were awful though, what the point of the official stood next to the goal is I don’t know, he had a perfect view of both incidents...

What official next to the goal????