cleavers
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Yeah, I don't know what it means either, but its something that's bugged me a bit, because it shows just what we are capable of, how we can control a game, and more importantly, how, for long periods we're simply not doing it. I haven't looked back at previous seasons, but my purely empirical evidence is that it wasn't the case, and we were much more consistent in scoring, shall we say, more regular goals, but we played more consistent periods of football than we do now.That's really interesting. Goes hand in hand with what I am saying, perhaps. A lot of people have said that when we win games it's because we have the players, rather than the way we set up. Probably a bit harsh on pellegrini, but would those stats back it up. When the players decide to take it into their own hands and turn it on, they really turn it in - but ultimately we aren't set up in a way to ensure we do it across an entire game.
It could also suggest entirely the opposite - we only follow orders for short periods in a game - who knows. Its a really interesting set of stats, though.
Like many of these bits of information I suspect its much ado about nothing, but never the less its bugged me enough recently to actually look it up, because I think scoring has been an issue this season, we've missed a ridiculous number of chances in some games, and then created virtually none in others, and that just isn't us, even at our worst last season we still created chances, this year in the bad results (Spurs, and perhaps Arsenal apart) we really seem to be struggling even to create chances.