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EPL Week 18 other games December 26th-28th

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I don’t want that counter attacking style with a fat John McGinn on the wing at Anfield.
Emery is a good manager but this won’t be sustainable. It’s just a matter of time before they see some poor results given they win most games with less xG than their opponents, and this title challenge will fade away.
Been veeery lucky several times.

Hope they pick points off Arsenal though.
 
Hansern said:
I don’t want that counter attacking style with a fat John McGinn on the wing at Anfield.
Emery is a good manager but this won’t be sustainable. It’s just a matter of time before they see some poor results given they win most games with less xG than their opponents, and this title challenge will fade away.
Been veeery lucky several times.

Hope they pick points off Arsenal though.
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If any team wins 11 on the bounce they'll have been very lucky a few times. But Villa didn't just counter attack after that 3 man change yesterday - they battered Chelsea from pillar to post. Emery adapts to the opposition and Home/Away, as any manager would/should do.
 
We are yet to lose a game that we have led - that new low awaits us. In fact I think Leeds is the only match in which we led and failed to get all 3 points.
 
Frogfish said:
If any team wins 11 on the bounce they'll have been very lucky a few times. But Villa didn't just counter attack after that 3 man change yesterday - they battered Chelsea from pillar to post. Emery adapts to the opposition and Home/Away, as any manager would/should do.
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One of the football podcasts I listen to went through all their games. They have 1-2 convincing wins. The rest could have gone either way and most of them have seen the opposition create more chances. They’ve also scored more goals outside the box then anyone else.

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View: https://x.com/xgphilosophy/status/2004997193279963530?s=46

As said Emery is a good manager. The 11 game run hasn’t all of a sudden turned him into a tactical genius. Just a few months ago they were booed of the pitch at home and they wanted him sacked.
 
Hansern said:
One of the football podcasts I listen to went through all their games. They have 1-2 convincing wins. The rest could have gone either way and most of them have seen the opposition create more chances. They’ve also scored more goals outside the box then anyone else.

Regarding battering Chelsea:


View: https://x.com/xgphilosophy/status/2004997193279963530?s=46

As said Emery is a good manager. The 11 game run hasn’t all of a sudden turned him into a tactical genius. Just a few months ago they were booed of the pitch at home and they wanted him sacked.
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Nearly all Chelsea's XG came in the first half almost all Villas in the 2nd. However what the XG doesn't show is the number of attacks Villa had that came to nothing. Watch the BBC highlights.

re. Your last paragraph. Sounds like us in reverse then!
 
Frogfish said:
Nearly all Chelsea's XG came in the first half almost all Villas in the 2nd. However what the XG doesn't show is the number of attacks Villa had that came to nothing. Watch the BBC highlights.

re. Your last paragraph. Sounds like us in reverse then!
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Agree.

Chelsea were fucking shite 2nd half. Villa were fucking shite first half.
 
Leeds are a decent side. They’re also very good on set pieces. Won’t be easy for us on Thursday
 
Forget about the winning run. Forget about the so-called title challenge — it should never have been a yardstick to measure Emery’s success or achievements. There will be many who use the end of the good run of results, and the point at which they fall behind the title challengers, as a stick to beat Emery with. But these were unrealistic targets, or not even on the wish list at the start of the season.

I’m not advocating anything in particular, but it does feel that metrics like xG and xPts — even for someone who enjoys reading stats — can do his work a disservice. I guess only their own fans can truly appreciate the scale of the job Emery has done (for example, three of the starting XI against Chelsea were free transfers, including the midfield pair of Kamara and Tielemans).

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