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And for those still trying to get their head around expected goals, this vid is a doddle to understand.
no massive surprise here other than look at Chelsea! Still early days and little data but if that data trend continues for Chavs than they are in for a rocky season, especially with Europe.
:avbpray:
The best squad equipped to deal with multiple competitions that I can see is Citeh. Manure have a very large squad but I question their quality but they have a manger that doesn't give a fuck and will play shite conservative football that may see them compensate. Other than that Liverpool, Chavs & Scum I think have worse squads (depth/ability) than us.Europe and the cups are going to start evening the league out soon I'd wager. Chelsea got the insane advantage they got last season because of no European comp. Now that the european comps are up and running we will see what happens.
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Which should make a top 3-top 4 finish well within our reach in theory.The best squad equipped to deal with multiple competitions that I can see is Citeh. Manure have a very large squad but I question their quality but they have a manger that doesn't give a fuck and will play shite conservative football that may see them compensate. Other than that Liverpool, Chavs & Scum I think have worse squads (depth/ability) than us.
no massive surprise here other than look at Chelsea! Still early days and little data but if that data trend continues for Chavs than they are in for a rocky season, especially with Europe.
:avbpray:
Good news about those games is they are away games as even though we have started to grind out a few results at 'home' the football and manner of most of those wins hasn't been the most inspiring.Well, we got 9 points. We did what we needed to do in the last 4 games for a significant improvement on this stage of last season. We also made unexpected ground in the Champions League at the same time. Next up:
Woolwich (A)
West Brom (H)
Leceister (A)
Watford (A)
If we want to take it a step further now, we should be aiming for 12 points in our next 4 league games. As difficult as this sounds, there are many reasons for it.
We lost two games at this stage of last season, putting us 10 points behind the leaders. Winning our games would already give us a better points per game ratio than at the end of the entire of last season, with our favourite stages still yet to come.
It would also put the Chelsea and United games firmly to bed and make us closer title contenders than ever before. Simply put, it's make or break time for reducing the gap over Christmas and into January.
So, no pressure lads...
Good news about those games is they are away games as even though we have started to grind out a few results at 'home' the football and manner of most of those wins hasn't been the most inspiring.
The united game was a bit of an anomaly, as for the most part I feel like we've played better football away this season.
Do we have any of those long standing "haven't won here in XX years" left now? I was trying to think when we beat Chelsea at the Bridge if there was any left for us to break but my first thought is that we have now beaten all the top teams home and away in recent memory. Am I mistaken?