Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - Scott McTominay, Serie A Winner, Serie A POTS, “not good enough for UTD”

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I been a PSG fan a lot longer than that, it's well documented on here and as for Liverpool... they were outplayed in both legs :manny: Only Arsenal kept up and their problem was they couldn't finish and still haven't found a striker



lmao the tie vs Arsenal was literally over after 5 minutes when Dembele stroked that goal in. They didnt need to get out of 2nd gear after that. The Villa and Liverpool games were a lot harder for PSG. I hate this XG shyt, it doesn't give an accurate representation of a game at all
 

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lmao the tie vs Arsenal was literally over after 5 minutes when Dembele stroked that goal in. They didnt need to get out of 2nd gear after that. The Villa and Liverpool games were a lot harder for PSG. I hate this XG shyt, it doesn't give an accurate representation of a game at all
It's not perfect but I feel xG is the best metric to get an get an overview of the qualities of chances. I prefer the xG plots vizualisation though, it gives helps see momentum as well



You can see between minutes 55 and 75, PSG were badly in danger and that's how it felt watching the game as well.
 

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It's not perfect but I feel xG is the best metric to get an get an overview of the qualities of chances. I prefer the xG plots vizualisation though, it gives helps see momentum as well



You can see between minutes 55 and 75, PSG were badly in danger and that's how it felt watching the game as well.


xG is great data but in how they presented the data in relation to a two legged tie is intellectually dishonest. PSG could have a xG advantage of 2+ in the first leg and then get "outplayed" in the second leg but still be up 2 goals on actual aggregate.

Furthermore Arsenal's xG is so high because the sitter Saka missed was as close to a penalty (the highest xG chance there is) you can get.

As a person who watched all the games, Villa gave PSG the best game over two legs, and Liverpool could have shyt housed a victory. Arsenal had no chance.
 

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lmao the tie vs Arsenal was literally over after 5 minutes when Dembele stroked that goal in. They didnt need to get out of 2nd gear after that. The Villa and Liverpool games were a lot harder for PSG. I hate this XG shyt, it doesn't give an accurate representation of a game at all

That's why you have a Dr. in your name

The arsenal fans here are patients.
 

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That's why you have a Dr. in your name

The arsenal fans here are patients.

Its mostly the younger Arsenal fans, the ones who don't really have a deep understanding of the clubs history that talk this shyt online. Imagine watching Wright, Pires, Henry or Bergkamp in their prime and then turning around and saying yeah we got schooled but look at our XG though :mjlol:
 
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I'll agree that Villa was the most "dangerous" team PSG played. Through both legs I never feared Liverpool or Arsenal's ability to finish. I said Arsenal was the tougher tie because they were the one team that was able to get PSG out of rhythm on offense. Even though Villa was dangerous, PSG was still getting most of what they wanted at their end.
 

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Partey leaving Arsenal but they bringing in Norgaard. :beli:

Why Arsenal are bad scouting up and coming prospects?

They got caught flatfooted on this partey situation, clearly. Just trying to get a stopgap solution for a coupla seasons

Even with Zubimendi coming, i think we need a Partey replacement for depth
 
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