sullydnl
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For what it's worth, going into this gameweek fbref had us fifth in the league for xG, xGA and xGD.
Obviously 6 games is way too short a sample size to read much into. Chelsea were 11th, 9th and 8th in those same stats for example, so fixture difficulty is obviously skewing things heavily (as presumably is being down to 10 men in the game against Liverpool).
That said, it should probably be concerning that even after just 6 games and even having had more difficult fixtures than us, City and Liverpool are already on top of xGD with +10.9 and +10.0 respectively, while we're trailing well behind at +3.2. With our fixtures getting tougher ahead, the early trend isn't positive. And I doubt today's game helped much.
Obviously 6 games is way too short a sample size to read much into. Chelsea were 11th, 9th and 8th in those same stats for example, so fixture difficulty is obviously skewing things heavily (as presumably is being down to 10 men in the game against Liverpool).
That said, it should probably be concerning that even after just 6 games and even having had more difficult fixtures than us, City and Liverpool are already on top of xGD with +10.9 and +10.0 respectively, while we're trailing well behind at +3.2. With our fixtures getting tougher ahead, the early trend isn't positive. And I doubt today's game helped much.