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Jimmy McCormick
xG doesn't record all the chances just shots.
The likes of Gazza's famous extra time chance against Germany in Euro 96 wouldn't be recorded by xG.
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Eric Dier
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xG doesn't record all the chances just shots.
The likes of Gazza's famous extra time chance against Germany in Euro 96 wouldn't be recorded by xG.
Shots on goal can be slightly misleading if the team are just taking pot shots from outside the area. xG is far more subjective. Anyone watching that game last week will tell you villa should have scored more than 3.35 goals which is what xG worked out they should have scored. I’m hardly alone in being critical of xG really. It’s true sometimes teams score 6 or 7 when every shot seems to go in but I’m sure there’s plenty of other examples where xG has underestimated how many goals a team should have scored. Honestly, I feel like I could write “COYS I love Spurs” and you’d find a way to disagree somehowyeah but WHY do you think that? Doesn’t seem like it computes with the metrics from your previous posts.
Seems to me a lot of people who dismiss xg (and from your postings so far i would believe you fall in to thus category) tend to get too hung up on the numbers - an xg of 3 or 4.whatever for Team A should be looked at as a performance where a lot of goal scoring opportunities were created, not that Team A should have scored 3 or 4 goals only in the match.
No other stat would record that missed chance either afaia and with the point initially being that Shots Against is a less accurate measure of the level of chances a defence is conceding than Xg, then I'm not sure what the relevance is?
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
Statistical given my lifestyle and weight I should have died about 10 years ago. I'm gutted I want what that bloke on the TV ads is getting that £3k will be really handy when I'm dead.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Please do not start giving stat junkies another useless stat to toss over, XG fools enough of them as it is.
awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
Define uneducated?
milo
Jack L. Jones
Please do not start giving stat junkies another useless stat to toss over, XG fools enough of them as it is.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Never new Lukaku was so fast
He’s always been fast but never had the touch needed
TBF he has always played for counter attacking sides here
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
So, conceded another peno against Lukaku. Didn't see it, so was it a fair cop?
If so, I'm a bit concerned that he seems to give them away all the time.
If not, ah, well. Napoleon's adage about lucky generals springs to mind - he's not bad, just singularly unfortunate, all the time.
If so, I'm a bit concerned that he seems to give them away all the time.
If not, ah, well. Napoleon's adage about lucky generals springs to mind - he's not bad, just singularly unfortunate, all the time.
Was a fair penalty Lukaku, done him for pace and then Dier dove in bringing him down
Bullet
Andy Thompson
Scara posted links to educate you, which you ignored.
He posted a 5 year old link that said Dier reached 35km/h in a one off sprint at one point that season - don't think that has much relevance regarding whether Dier is a particularly quick defender or not, when things like acceleration over short distances and agility have a much greater importance than top speed.
Bullet
Andy Thompson
The links confirmed that Dier hit 35kmh which matches almost everyone else in the division. He might be slower or faster 5 years on, I don't know. But to suggest he is fast is not laughable. I agree acceleration and agility are important but that wasn't what I was discussing.
Yiddo
Jack Jull
Have to disagree with him when he says the decision to tackle was wrong. He had to make a challenge or Lukaku was scoring, he chose the wrong tackle.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
It was a pen
But lukaku did lean into him when being tackled to fall over. Reminded me of Kane vs the Greek lad at arsenal last season when he did the same thing and got nothing... but this was clearer as Dier slid when he didn’t need to
Dier had two or three options, none of them good ones.
Lukaku played it well by throwing his body into Dier the moment he saw him go to ground.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
SteveAWOL
Chris Jones
Perhaps if Dier was able / comfortable tackling with his left foot then he could’ve got to the ball but guess that’s always a risk when playing a right footer at LCB.
