Miles Away
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In a classy joint.XG-tampon string
After watching the Kasper interview posted here recently I think most goalkeepers would take issue with it.xSaves - that should go down well here!
I've just vomited.Did you all know about xAssists too?
Grealish said in an interview his season hadn't been as bad as some stats suggest (actual goals and assists) as his expected assists had been good this year:
Premier League Expected Goals & Assists Leaders 2021/22 | BettingOdds.com
Premier League Expected Goals & Assists Leaders as with almost a third of the Premier League season over with BettingOdds.com have taken a look atwww.bettingodds.com
Did you all know about xAssists too?
Grealish said in an interview his season hadn't been as bad as some stats suggest (actual goals and assists) as his expected assists had been good this year:
Premier League Expected Goals & Assists Leaders 2021/22 | BettingOdds.com
Premier League Expected Goals & Assists Leaders as with almost a third of the Premier League season over with BettingOdds.com have taken a look atwww.bettingodds.com
I believe it was. A shocking experience which has scarred me for life.That wouldn't be Rickeys on Leeds Road opposite the stadium would it?
Objection! It was Tuesday evening in my case.Well jb and boc for a start.
Is xG better than playing football without a ball?
Is xG better than playing football without a ball?
Shinji had a few of those.I'm looking forward to the introduction on unexpected goals.
Did you see the uxLookonhislittleface?Shinji had a few of those.
I knew it only by reputation, and that sign I mentioned, but what a reputation. Still, you'll be relieved to hear that it's now a used car lotI believe it was. A shocking experience which has scarred me for life.
But what about the virtual offsides?As long as any virtual goals scored or shots on target are included in the statistics, then I think it's ok. Is that correct, @popillius ?...
And nearly all of this can be explained away by having Fofana and Evans out for most of the season. It isn't rocket science; if you lose your best CBs you won't defend as well. It's the replacements we need to worry about, not the GK or the first team CBs. Soyuncu is okay when he has a brain next to him but Amartey isn't that. Having Vardy out for so long makes us play in a different way as well. We have very little threat so the ball ends up being played around with for too long and inevitably, it's lost too easily. The other problem this season had been Ndidi. He's been a phenomenal asset in protecting the back four for such a long time but, by his high standards, when he has played, he has had a poor season.Today we hit 81 goals conceded this season from our 52 matches with 6 or 7 games remaining.
For comparison, we conceded 61 last season from 53 matches. The season before we conceded a total of 49 goals from 48 games. Goals conceded per game:
21/22 = 1.56
20/21 = 1.15
19/20 = 1.02
Two obvious factors in this being the number of games and the injuries to defenders. However, the trend is really worrying, especially when you consider the types of goal we now concede routinely.
It's well known how poor we are defending set pieces. But only Brighton have made more defensive errors for example. Even things like 'shot creating actions' from our opponents show us up as very poor - only Norwich and Burnley have been worse than us this season at allowing opponents to create chances to score against us.
We have the same number of clean sheets this season as Norwich. And only two keepers have made more saves than Schmeichel this season (Meslier and De Gea).
Suffice it to say that the stats make very grim reading.
I think we have to have a major rethink about our defence next season. Is Schmeichel still the best possible option? If we stick with him, we need more quality at defending our penalty area to protect him. Is it worth doing that for one more season with Schmeichel highly likely to leave when his contract expires in 2023 anyway?
It looks likely that Soyuncu, Bertrand and Vestergaard will be going. But I think we need to go further. Amartey isn't good enough. Thomas isn't good enough either. We do still have three good right backs and no good left backs. Our main leader and organiser in defence is 34 and injury prone.
Then our organisation and coaching needs changing. Stowell cannot be left in charge of set pieces and Toure is doing nothing to improve the defensive unit through his coaching.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 11 | 28 |
2 | Manchester C | 12 | 23 |
3 | Chelsea | 12 | 22 |
4 | Arsenal | 12 | 22 |
5 | Brighton | 12 | 22 |
6 | Tottenham | 12 | 19 |
7 | Nottm F | 12 | 19 |
8 | Aston Villa | 12 | 19 |
9 | Newcastle | 11 | 18 |
10 | Fulham | 12 | 18 |
11 | Brentford | 12 | 17 |
12 | Manchester U | 11 | 15 |
13 | Bournemouth | 12 | 15 |
14 | West Ham | 11 | 12 |
15 | Everton | 12 | 11 |
16 | Leicester | 12 | 10 |
17 | Wolves | 12 | 9 |
18 | Palace | 12 | 8 |
19 | Ipswich | 11 | 8 |
20 | Southampton | 11 | 4 |