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Who's this co commentator? Right barrel of laughs.

In many ways this match was the poster child of why xG is a useful metric as it's easy to imagine rewinding time, replaying the game, and having the result go the other way. The 2 minutes shot an inch to the side, reaction time or the arm a millisecond different, schar gets even the slightest angle on the header, etc. Was one of those games where all those tiny little things went against us. Both teams seemed evenly matched to me. We both played good stuff and we both created chances. Against 2nd in the league and the team that has lead most of it that's probably the most you can expect. Such a game on the day is often going to come down to a certain amount of variance/randomness. That's what xG is there to try and calculate. In the long term what would this result be. Now there can be discussions on how you calculate this metric but for this game we were ahead. And having watched the game it's easy to see where our goals could have come from. Essentially I'm not worried. Always look for improvements of course but in terms of this game we were just on the wrong side of variance. It's easy to feel negative but in an alternative universe we're much more positive despite in each case the game plan and team being exactly the same.

It would be though. They basically check all penalty decisions. Even for LiVARpool they overturn that one.

Not followed all this but it clearly came off his leg. Why is this a discussion? We'd be fuming if that was given against us.

That's never ever a foul. What gives a goalkeeper the god given right to be anywhere they want to be? That never gets given against an outfield player.

Why does this need to take so long?

Think I said it in the thread but don't think our first goal happens if Targett isn't on the pitch. Burn doesn't make that first touch pass forward. Would be nice to see him get some more game time to get up to speed but suspect Burn is back and it was just a rest.

Surprised that banner made it into the broadcast.

Fuck me. That's obscene.

Don't know why but it feels like we're losing here.

As if that's the best angle they have for that.

Wasn't much but if Burn is playing that pass doesn't get made to Joelinton does it?

Depends on the results. The spurs win was quite a big deal in that regard.

Was Bamford potentially offside for that howler?

Has to be manager of the season surely? Only other contender can be Arteta if Arsenal won but that's not looking likely now.

WTF IS GOING ON!?

This is decent enough isn't it?

What's that coefficient money? Literally "here's some extra cash for the 'big' teams"?

It was 50/50. Could have gone either way. End of discussion.

The rule is bullshit but of course it isn't enforced against Liverpool.

We've been in it a little more last 5 minutes at least and thankfully it's only 1-0.

You're allowed to just hold your hands up and say that you're wrong. Much better than digging and digging.

Seen quite a few comments such as it makes sense to go there to learn from Messi etc. How much is a young player going to learn from these players that he wouldn't get from a good management and coaching staff? Players being good doesn't make them good teachers or role models.

Such as when Howe took over?