That's a long post. Are you trying to convince yourself?
That's a long post. Are you trying to convince yourself?
No I just thought I'd have a look at the squad and ending up going through it. I'd give him another 2 seasons but if there's no trophy progress and he is still doing daft stuff then pull the trigger.
Arteta is one of those managers who comes across as an absolute prick to people who don't support the team, and is therefore quite unpopular with football fans in general, but if you do support the team you can appreciate what he's done for it. He's essentially brought the steel back to Arsenal, after 10-15 years of being airy fairy woke guff.
It definitely serves a purpose over a long period. Even more so with individual players. You don’t want to be signing strikers over performing their XG.Originally Posted by Gray Fox
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It's a good tool, it's basically the same as a golfer's strokes gained tee to green statistic, which is generally the best indicator of how well they will do over a period of time. What it doesn't mean is that missing all your putts in that tournament makes you 'unlucky' to finish 32nd instead of winning, it means you putted like shit.
I'm surprised it doesn't get more run with goalkeepers, to be honest. Maybe it would just reveal that all goalkeepers are pretty much the same. I'm not quite sure.
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That must be one of the highest xG totals Arsenal have wracked up over two games against any team they have played twice this season. They often struggle to get much over 1, which is sort of the problem they have over the course of a season.
Yeah, on the contrary, the fact that having a high xG isn't enough to win a game is precisely what makes football a much more exciting sport than, say, basketball. No matter how well you're playing, you still need to get the ball over the line.
Arteta has always been a detestable cunt. Proper Andalusian restaurant manager vibes.
He's unhinged, as all great coaches are, but he doesn't temper it with enough levity.
Rashford apparently still twerking for a move to Barca. Not sure what planet the man is living on.
His competition is Ferran Torres, I’m sure he’d be more than fine
His competition would be Raphinha.
Well, no. If he was signed he’d be doing what ferran torres does. Covering the front 3 positions
That's not what he thinks, I guarantee it.
XG was when the sport basically died for me.
2008 born Reggie Walsh starts for Chelsea
Clearlake frothing over that pure profit
Looking forward to us going 3-0 down before Maguire nods one in from the halfway line to win it in the 96th minute.
That's not a penalty.
That's a lovely hit although I wonder if Onana could have gotten to it.
Why has he tried to get both hands to it?
Fingertips, I dont think he could have gone much more. Poor from Maguire and we need to close him down quicker.
Here we go.
Antony is now scoring free kicks. This has to be some sort of sick joke.
Garnacho shouldn't have chipped that.
Looking forward to this second half!
My streams have all stopped working at the same time. Help a brother out.
Maguire making up for that cross last week by being absolutely fucking shit tonight.
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Mount
Always said he's quality.
Banter final coming up.
Shamorim should be sacked on the spot if he fucks up against that lot.
Losing a cup final to Tottenham would be a new post-Ferguson low. The stain would last a thousand years.
Sheffield United in the play-off final again. You should be ineligible for promotion if you've been relegated twice in the last five years.
Ange getting his dick out after this only to lose the final and be sacked would be funny. But him trying his the way we play mate in the CL next year would also be comical.
I'd argue the playoffs should have been cancelled with 3rd that far ahead of 4th.
Amad is so fucking good.
We are all Manchester United.
Why are Tottenham having an absolute chimpout about giving away a penalty in the 93rd of 93 minutes whilst 5-1 up? It is completely meaningless.
You're not wrong.
Some positivity for United. Big Sir Jim had best find a cleaner who’s been working at the club for 60 years call her a cunt and sack her tomorrow to balance things up.
It's nice that Mount has found his level.
The playoffs are great for catching strays. For instance in a 46-match Championship we've just set a new lowest points record for a fifth-place finish, narrowly beating the previous record set by Coventry City two years ago. If we fail to get through the playoffs, I reckon we can get further with less next season and really go for it.
It's been a nice bonding season with my Dad this year. He goes to the West Brom matches and comes back to detail me with a boring score draw due to crap finishing, too much playing around at the back and the linesman was shit. Then he asks me how the Arsenal game went and I detail him with our boring score draw due to crap finishing, he interrupts to tell me that we play it around at the back too much, and then I tell him how the ref screwed us this week. Then I ask where they are in the table and he goes 'Still 6th' followed 'You're 2nd still right?' and now I fear both of those statements might end up incorrect. What a season.
It's a great division because really outside of the top three there's very little to separate the teams, Plymouth would have been on the beach by April if they didn't give Rooney more than five minutes in charge, none of the playoff contenders thought that winning games in the last few weeks was worth a go. Now with the playoffs either Sheffield United go up as their league record suggests they should, or Chris Wilder commits murder live on Sky Sports.
As an Arsenal fan I don't want Spurs to win on principle but Ange winning and staying without changing his philosphy at all will be comedy.
Ideally there would be no winner but the final could be an insane goalfest of shit defending at least. 4-4 and then pens.
I would normally suggest United win but the idea of of it devolving into a a Premier League match probably turns it into a 0-0 shitfest.
I can remember 3 all English European finals. United v Chelsea, Liverpool v Spurs and then in the Europa, Chelsea v Arsenal.
I seem to remember all of them being quite terrible games too.
Chelsea City too right but I don’t think I even watched it.
Ah yes, apologies Chelsea fans. Guardiola tried to smart arse it again and played no strikers, but then they couldn't hit a barn door. Kante then lolled at them when they tried to fix it.
:d
I watched Chelsea-City in a bar with another Chelsea fan. I remember it well because he was shaking like a leaf all the way through, whereas I felt completely confident from minute one that we were pissing it. A strange year, that one.
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