| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division 18:00 - Aug 23 with 974 views | J2BLUE |
I appreciate it's after just three games but that's not stopping others posting all sorts of sh1te. Today, without the penalty, Preston had an xG of 0.05.
We are not clicking going forward with the 19th best xG in the division but it will click. There is too much attacking talent here not to pick up as the season goes on. We are currently underperforming our xG by 0.48 goals per game.
It's not as bleak as some people are making out. I know this boards needs a meltdown to cleanse itself these days which is sad and I know there will be all sorts of replies twisting things, denying the stats and being determined to believe it's all over. No problem, get it out of your system. I will probably just ignore you.
Source: https://footystats.org/england/championship/xg
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:05 - Aug 23 with 885 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I don't think defence is the biggest issue. |  |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:07 - Aug 23 with 862 views | J2BLUE |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:05 - Aug 23 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I don't think defence is the biggest issue. |
Yes, that's why I mentioned the attack getting better while the defence is already strong, albeit on very limited data. | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:08 - Aug 23 with 846 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Yes that stacks up, although no clean sheets either but I don’t think anyone is panicked about the defense at this level. Although sometimes players do seem to get in between our CBs on balls into the box.
Going to be a very different season to last time at this level. |  |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:15 - Aug 23 with 777 views | franz_tyson |
Why even bother to go and watch a game of football if some stats put together by a nameless individual trumps everything including the match experience? How depressing.
Some people truly have been brainwashed by data.
I'll stick to be disappointed by a underwhelming performance. |  | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:18 - Aug 23 with 742 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:15 - Aug 23 by franz_tyson |
Why even bother to go and watch a game of football if some stats put together by a nameless individual trumps everything including the match experience? How depressing.
Some people truly have been brainwashed by data.
I'll stick to be disappointed by a underwhelming performance. |
Some truth in this, people have ignored the eye test too much. | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:30 - Aug 23 with 653 views | StNeotsBlue |
Not sure there has been too much moaning about the defence over the summer, a few about the keeper options to be fair. But our midfield and attacking options have been a concern all summer. Getting Cajuste back is an obvious positive and I don't think Azor has put a foot wrong. But our top 6, be it in a 3 2 1 or 2 3 1 look well off the pace as an attacking force. |  | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:40 - Aug 23 with 584 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
On a similar topic, I just checked FotMob, the stats were very different for Preston v Leicester last Saturday.
14 shots and 4 big chances they created, relatively interesting how different those two games were. | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:19 - Aug 23 with 474 views | _clive_baker_ |
Not sure it means a great deal today when you’re 1 nil down after 11 minutes. They had something to defend and were perfectly happy to sit in for 80 minutes and do just that, and they executed it. These are the sort of games that become very difficult when you go behind against stubborn sh1thouse defences who sit deep and look to kill the game. |  | | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:25 - Aug 23 with 443 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:19 - Aug 23 by _clive_baker_ |
Not sure it means a great deal today when you’re 1 nil down after 11 minutes. They had something to defend and were perfectly happy to sit in for 80 minutes and do just that, and they executed it. These are the sort of games that become very difficult when you go behind against stubborn sh1thouse defences who sit deep and look to kill the game. |
We had 100M+ on the pitch to unlock it. | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:30 - Aug 23 with 402 views | textbackup |
How does that help when we don’t have a shot on target mate? |  |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:30 - Aug 23 with 400 views | _clive_baker_ |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:25 - Aug 23 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
We had 100M+ on the pitch to unlock it. |
So did Leicester last week. We should’ve done a lot more with the possession we had, we didn’t create a lot and barely tested their keeper. A very disjointed performance, I actually thought we were starting to look a bit more dangerous before the triple sub but that seemed to take us backwards if anything. Poor day at the office. | | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:37 - Aug 23 with 356 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:30 - Aug 23 by _clive_baker_ |
So did Leicester last week. We should’ve done a lot more with the possession we had, we didn’t create a lot and barely tested their keeper. A very disjointed performance, I actually thought we were starting to look a bit more dangerous before the triple sub but that seemed to take us backwards if anything. Poor day at the office. |
Don’t care about Leicester really.
Chaplin isn’t great off the bench I’d rather start him than bring him on. | |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:40 - Aug 23 with 338 views | Edmundo |
Totally agree. Some people really just need a night out to get it out of their systems, but these days stay in and smash their keyboard instead. Sad times. |  |
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:45 - Aug 23 with 309 views | blueoutlook |
There’s only one statistic that counts at the end of the day. PNE 1 ITFC 0. No statistic is going to change the cold hard truth. |  | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:57 - Aug 23 with 253 views | _clive_baker_ |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 19:37 - Aug 23 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Don’t care about Leicester really.
Chaplin isn’t great off the bench I’d rather start him than bring him on. |
Not sure what point you were making about the £100m tbh. I haven’t seen anyone suggest it was anything but really disappointing. Just that Xg against is a bullsh1t measure when we gave them a lead to defend for 90% of the game. | | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 20:00 - Aug 23 with 222 views | StNeotsBlue |
Evening Mick McGiven. | | | |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 20:03 - Aug 23 with 201 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 18:15 - Aug 23 by franz_tyson |
Why even bother to go and watch a game of football if some stats put together by a nameless individual trumps everything including the match experience? How depressing.
Some people truly have been brainwashed by data.
I'll stick to be disappointed by a underwhelming performance. |
Yup the evidence of my eyes today is that we have no bite up front and are vulnerable to crosses at the back.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. [Post edited 23 Aug 20:06]
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| We have the second best xGA (expected goals against) in the division on 20:05 - Aug 23 with 185 views | Swansea_Blue |
It is a weird stat though. When Coventry were 6-0 up their xG was under 1. They finished on 1.1.
(I realise that for rather than against, but both can be misleading). [Post edited 23 Aug 20:10]
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