by Cal » Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:45 am
We don't exactly do well in the attempts at measuring this "objectively" through expected goals for, expected goals against, and expected points.
https://understat.com/league/EPL
Expected goals is fairly accurate to our goals scored - unfortunately that being we've had the second least amount of high quality chances created. Watford and Norwich in particular spurned a lot of what should have been high conversion rate chances.
I guess we have parallels with Sheffield United over the whole goalkeeper being made to make far more saves than they'd like to, but thriving in doing so and preventing what would be expected goals and salvaging points. This is presumably what's helped to nick a lot of those "lucky" wins.
The only team to outperform the expected points metric more than us is Liverpool.
We don't exactly do well in the attempts at measuring this "objectively" through expected goals for, expected goals against, and expected points.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/fxoUuuM.png[/img]
https://understat.com/league/EPL
Expected goals is fairly accurate to our goals scored - unfortunately that being we've had the second least amount of high quality chances created. Watford and Norwich in particular spurned a lot of what should have been high conversion rate chances.
I guess we have parallels with Sheffield United over the whole goalkeeper being made to make far more saves than they'd like to, but thriving in doing so and preventing what would be expected goals and salvaging points. This is presumably what's helped to nick a lot of those "lucky" wins.
The only team to outperform the expected points metric more than us is Liverpool. <awe>