Kid Icarus

Just been looking at the stats there and our xG was accumilated through quantity rather than quality. Isak's header is our highest at 0.20, Arsenal's is Odegaard's one on one 0.43, but Saka's was also 0.25. Thinking about the match now that I'm not up a height, I still thought we were pretty shoddy, especially in midfield, but with that in mind it's a good sign that we can play that poorly and hit the post twice, had a couple of one on one situations, a header from a set piece, and almost a pen. A bit of a coulda, woulda, shoulda match if that makes sense. It could have easily been any variation of scoreline between 4-0 to us and about 6-0 to them.

r/soccer is made up almost entirely of US-based fans of Liverpool, Man United, and Arsenal. It's often alright, but there's some insane bias on there.

Exactly. Burn's the big one for me, I know that he's aware of it but he's useless at headers in an attacking sense. He probably should have had 4 or 5 this season, easily.

We do get a lot of set pieces but Trippier's literally one of the best in the league at creating chances. It seems like that's already being taken for granted a bit when it doesn't happen.

Definitely jumping on the bandwagon and betting on us losing this one like

Let's hope so. I want to get to use my favourite (Futuristic Zone)

Better luck in the Medieval Zone ye weird nonce

Sometimes you just have to say what a mixed bag weekend of FA Premier League football.

Not sure they'll survive this if they don't push up

Jenas calling it subjective along to a replay of Lindelof moving his arm towards the ball and handling it. Cretin.

West Ham look a different team from the one we played.

West Ham have been on the receiving end of it a lot recently

Oh what a surprise

He's been an imposter his entire career. At least with the likes of Savage, they're treated as figures of fun, with Jenas he talks like and is viewed as someone who was a really good player.

Peter Walton thinks it's a pen ffs

Even the Man United fans on Reddit think it's a pen. That says it all, they're the most kool aid drinking fans out there.

Ref gives a pen for a non-handball, VAR checks it, gets it overturned Ref doesn't give a pen for a blatant handball.........half time.

Shut up Jenas you invertebrate nonce

An absolutely blatant hand ball for fucks sake

Gotta protect the brand

Aaaahahahaha

Football at this time of year is far too chaotic to know anything for sure. Not even pessimism really, we should be confident and I am, but I think those odds against and 96% chance charts have got to people's heads a bit, it's nowhere near a forgone conclusion

I just really don't agree I thought they were good but I thought we were shit aside from the first 15 minutes and nowhere remotely near playing out of our skins. Man City were a cut above them when they came here imo, but in that match we did play out of our skins and got a result.

Down to a 6.5 from 7.5

I'm not sure tbh. Don't get me wrong, they're good, but outscoring your xG and under conceding your xGA is usually unsustainable in the long run and they've done it all season. Brentford are similar albeit at a lower level. Man City on the other hand nigh on always have a high xG that's higher than their xGA.