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XA90 is a qualitative and quantitive measurement of chances created per 90 minutes. Of our players who started more than a handful of league games only Eriksen (0.27) had a higher XGA per 90 than Trippier (0.19) in our team.
XA is the qualitative and quantitive measurement of expected goals from the chances created by a player. Of all our players over the course of the whole season, only Eriksen had a higher XA (7.88) than Trippier (4.58).
For comparison, Walker's XA at City this season was 1.94. His XA90 was 0.06.
Danny Rose XA 2.59. XA90 0.13.
I dont doubt Trippier lumps a lot of pointless balls into the box which adds up to some of the probability based numbers . Instead look at facts like assists per 90 minutes.
Trippier also is in 10th in our team for assists per 90 minutes far behind KWP, Aurier and Rose. Theres a reason why trippier's passes/crosses dont turn into goals as much even though he puts in a ridiculously high number of crosses, because most of them are shite crosses .
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You have just completely ignored the facts that contradict this and repeated the same stuff you stated before it was proven incorrect. XA is a metric that qualifies as well as quantifies. It's a metric that is derived at by the measurement of over 10,000 events (at least), takes into account the quality and historic values of the players involved and puts an accurate value of probability to each event. It's also fairer on the player measured because it doesn't depend on the next phase being completed to register (ie like an assist) it merely measures the quality of the actual action by the player himself only.
But no, "all he does is lump shite crosses" is much more valid....FFS
A good example would be the superb pass that Trippier put into Llorente against Ajax, that Llorente then fucked up from point blank rage - which incidentally led directly to our second goal.
Trippier's got deficiencies, he's not had a great season, but then who has?
I find it really odd that you will use basic stats to criticise Trippier but were one of Sissoko's biggest fans, a player who doesn't do anything well, is the 11th in tackling (Trippier 2nd), 15th in Interceptions (Trippier 7th), 9th assists, 10th key passes (Trippier 2nd), Sissoko is the 7th most dispossessed (Trippier 14th), 9th most unsuccessful touches (trippier 13th), Sissoko 9th most passes pg (Trippier 4th our highest passing player outside the CB's).
I short Sissoko does fuck all well. His technique is shite, his passing is rudimentary, his defending - even pressure events (as per posted by me several times) are shite. But he's "POTS" and Trippier's garbage?