ag6789 wrote:Lies, damn lies and statistics.
They could be totally misleading, like possession stats. If you have 70% possession passing backwards and sideways and the opponent lies in wait ( w/only 30% control) but pounces on some of your passing mistakes and scores two, whereas you come up w/ nothing.
Or , you take 20 rubbish shots at the goal and waste all of them whereas the opponent takes three w/ precision and scores two.
An outsider who hasn't seen the game sees the stats and thinks, hmmm, our team made 20 attempts; we must be the unluckiest dog in town.
Indeed.
Taking 20 rubbish shots is rubbish - that is exactly what the numbers say for us. Poor attempts from half chances and the few good chances we are creating we're not scoring those either).
Lets take our 5-0 loss to City as an example.
Rodri scored from a chance with an xG of 0.02
Gundegan with a header with an xG of 0.14.
Laporte also scored from a chance with an xG of 0.1
That's 3 goals for City from their half chances.
Many other goals scored this season from chances with an xG of around 0.1 or less.
None for us, because we are unable to finish effectively despite creating a lot of these half chances.
Then there are our big chances we have created - 3 of them - we scored 1.
The data is very accurately reflecting what is being seen on the pitch.