For me, irrespective of results, the players actually look like they want to play for Tom. We saw this fleetingly under Valarien Ismael but since Xisco Munoz (despite his limitations as a manager) the players haven't played out of their skins for the manager.
TBF he did a very good job last season although guess it couldn't get much worse than before he came in
Haha! Blinkin auto correct! I guess it could be poisonous if we went up through the play offs, being in the prem league is not much fun for the majority of newly promated teams
We continue to completely defy the underlying numbers! Only Portsmouth, Plymouth + Sheffield Wednesday have conceded more goals than us, whilst only Norwich + Sunderland have scored more than us. Match upload: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h6zw...ey=ets3ugbkji096pg4db28go8ox&st=uggln3lv&dl=0 @BigRossLittleRoss @Sahorn @Vic
Thank you Reids. Been looking forward to seeing this post appear. Will enjoy watching later with crisps and beer. edit: please, no one tell me the score
I'm curious - how does reality compare to our xG and xGA? I'm sure I could go and puzzle it out but I'm guessing you have the values right in front of you...
Wednesday commentators are utterly dismal. Makes you almost forgive Del Payne for mangling "Chekvertadski".
We've scored 22 goals from 15.2 xG and conceded 21 goals from 20.33 xG. So matches up about right defensively, but over-performing in attack (!). Penalties have helped our tally somewhat (most penalty goals in the league with 4 - Luton in 2nd place with 2). In open play only we've scored 15 goals from 12.09 xG which narrows that overperformance slightly
So we should be about 2/3 of the way down the league based on xG of chances created at each end ? Which is where most of us expected we would be. Dare I say we have been "lucky" or is it down to excellent finishing and excellent goalkeeping ?
I think we've been pretty lucky. Looking at just the goals we've scored, we've scored a fair few low xG chances. We've got Chaks FK against Millwall from miles out and then a little cluster of chances just inside the area from the right - Bayos chip against Wednesday is the relatively high xG chance (0.32 xG), but then we've got Kayembe against Stoke (0.04 xG), Festy against Sunderland (0.09 xG), Andrews against Norwich (0.08 xG) and Sissoko against Derby (0.10 xG) all in that cluster - as well as Kayembes goal against Boro (0.04 xG) from the middle edge of the penalty area
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From recollection at one point we had 6 on target shots and scored them all. Data Sheffield Wednesday Watford Possession 48% 52% Shots 15 15 Shots On Target 7 8 Shots Off Target 7 6 Cards 3 3 Corners 7 2 Fouls 14 16 Offsides 2 1 xG 1.65 1.65
Those xG numbers seem way off though - we had two penalties which are about 1.5 just by themselves. Fotmob has the xG down as 1.51-4.10. https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/matches/watford-vs-sheffield-wednesday/3aujs7#4519648
Dunno. I took data from here => https://footystats.org/england/watford-fc-vs-sheffield-wednesday-fc-h2h-stats#
