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Silver lining but Everton getting beat a few times before the end of the season aint a bad thing. Want them on holiday for last game.

 

Also Brighton, similar, need them with nowt to play for.

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2 hours ago, Kaizero said:

Small sidenote to the B/G discussion and the myth that they "only do well" because they play on astroturf above the artic circle, here's their full home/away record in European competition since their "return" to them for the 20/21 season:

 

Home: 29 – 3 – 5┊107 – 30┊+77 GD

Away: 8 – 11 – 17┊45 – 57┊-12 GD

 

Total: 37 – 14 – 22┊152 – 87┊+65 GD

 

7 of 17 away defeats were by 2 goals or more, meaning 10 out of 17 were lost by 1 goal. Only 2 matches were lost by more than 2 goals, 0-3 against Arsenal in the 22/23 EL group stage and 0-4 against Roma in the  21/22 ECL QF.

 

Yes, of course B/G gets some advantage from being used to their astroturf and their local climate – but how"large" of an advantage they're getting, when compared to the general "advantage" all home sides have due to simply being more familiar with their home ground than the opponents, could be discussed to death in and of itself – also, shouldn't truly "big" European teams be professional enough to do their job on any turf in any weather if their team truly was much more talented than their opponent?

 

 

Pretty sure that home and away stat isn't normal, though? Lets look at it in points terms: 90p from 37 at home (2,45 per game). 35p from 36 away (0,97 per game). I know home games are allways easier in Europe, but this is basically the difference between comfortably winning the league and barely avoiding relegation if it was league form. Not exactly a like for like analogy, but the point is, the difference seems abnormaly high. So if anything that reinforces the idea that their home advantage is huge. Doesn't mean that what they are doing isn't highly impressive, and noone was saying that it's all about the home advantage anyways.

 

 

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Can't imagine how awful this season has been for Southampton, imagine your crowning achievement come April being that you've avoided being the worst ever top flight club :lol: 

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