the thing about this stat is that it is a little misleading in isolation about the strength of our attack. 6 of our 26 goals this season have been penalties, that is a big contribution of our total goals, so that xG is stripped from our attack, imagine they were shots instead the xG would be higher but the goals we’ve actually scored in games would be lower.
It also doesn’t take into consideration game state. We scored a penalty to go 1-0 up away to Palace, went down to 10 men, of course we are going to sit deep and protect what we’ve got, which we did. 3 points. But we come out of that game with a bad non pen xG score, which does damage to a chart like this, but I’d rather the 3 points.
the thing about this stat is that it is a little misleading in isolation about the strength of our attack. 6 of our 26 goals this season have been penalties, that is a big contribution of our total goals, so that xG is stripped from our attack, imagine they were shots instead the xG would be higher but the goals we’ve actually scored in games would be lower.
It also doesn’t take into consideration game state. We scored a penalty to go 1-0 up away to Palace, went down to 10 men, of course we are going to sit deep and protect what we’ve got, which we did. 3 points. But we come out of that game with a bad non pen xG score, which does damage to a chart like this, but I’d rather the 3 points.