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That red ffs.

Atalanta-Brugge is mad, fucking hell. What a shocker.

Why would it be embarrassing?

Came from behind to take points more than ever this season though. Good point as usual.

I fucking hate the celebration policing. They just got a really late equaliser against their much better local rivals, when are they allowed to celebrate?

Triple captaining Salah worked alright, still has the 9 bonus points to be added for this match.

Looking at understat, they are 9th in expected points. Wood has scored 5 goals above his xG and they've been pretty lucky defending (over 5 less goals conceded than xG). Probably pretty similar to that one Pardew season and feels like they'll struggle a lot next season with the almost guaranteed extra games in Europe.

Think Forest have scored early a lot so xg is probably a bit misleading as they've been happy to defend those leads pretty deep. They have attacking players on a great form and defend really well. I'm not expecting them to be mainstay in top 8 though, it's not really a formula for sustained success like you said.

Just came back to Finland after a failed MLS stint, think we unfortunately missed the boat.

He couldn’t hit it right with that run up.

Looks tiny on the goal ffs.

Pens!

Finish!

Could be off.

What an attack that was.

Is Gordon not a purple?

Terrible VAR decision in Madrid, fucking hell.

At least Leicester fans could celebrate their goal without any fear of VAR taking it away.

Cunha is good but he has played once as a RW during his Wolves career. We need a specialist who is natural at right.

Provisionally in, 1.

And that's on Howe.

Spurs at SJP this season was a good example of this, loads of possession and shots but never really troubled us. You look at those stats and think we were battered all game but xG ended up being pretty even and showing a much better picture of the match than 'traditional' stats. Works the other way too, Arsenal away at Carabao I felt we were quite comfortable defending but their xG was around 3.50 iirc. Was shocked that it was so high after the match. It's not perfect but when I want to have an idea about a match I didn't watch, I always check the xG first.

It's not though.

Yeah, Klopp often brought on Salah for 30 minutes in matches where they were leading 5-0. Or playing him the full 90 in dead rubbers. Murphy usually being the first one subbed off rarely makes sense to me as I would much rather see Gordon or Isak getting rested. I have no idea what is optimal nowadays but have full trust in Bunce/Howe.