• OkCurve436@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    You can argue Chelsea benefitted from one lucky handball decision and a miskick cross, but otherwise didn’t create that much. While Arsenal didn’t do that much either, we did dominate possession. That said I thought we passed the ball around a lot in midfield, not the final third

    • JabInTheButt@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Yeah exactly. I do think game state is doing something for us here… Behind for 60 minutes, they had little incentive to open up and go attacking. That said they were broadly “on top” for long periods and did very little. I don’t rate them in the slightest (but we were very poor).

    • Spiritual_Hat_7229@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Was exactly this. We dominated the game but didn’t control it. Field tilt is probably the best representation of a team’s performance hence why City have ranked top of it pretty much every season of the last 5 years. It’s a good thing that we pretty much always win this because it means we are better than the opposition every game.

      • RespectnConnect@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Uhm, you dominated possession(which Chelsea allowed you to)but not the game.

        Also, any objective person knows Chelsea was the better team in this game, and Field tilt without context is borderline useless

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          1 year ago

          Hate to say it but I agree with you, we never looked threatening until after Rices goal. Created no chances until then. Chelsea plugged the middle and stole possession from us many times, think they just got tired legs at the end, and Teta made the right subs. Otherwise we were piss poor

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          1 year ago

          Also, any objective person knows Chelsea was the better team in this game

          I don’t think you know what objective means.

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            1 year ago

            I do, tho, and that’s why everybody bar a certain section of Arsenal fans, knows Chelsea was the better team.

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              1 year ago

              I don’t see how you can claim to be objective as a Chelsea fan considering you’re happy to ignore all the statistics that show Arsenal were comfortably the better team.

              But sure “everybody” agrees with you. Clearly you’re being reasonable, objective and unbiased.

        • Socceritess@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          Lol… Not really… Chelsea had a 1.8xG vs 1.5xG for Arsenal… 0.9 of Chelsea’s XG was the penalty… They looked like they dominated but created jackshit… It was more of our own slow start than Chelsea being any good tbh…

          • RespectnConnect@alien.topB
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            1 year ago

            Chelsea only has 1.8G because they squandered great attacking opportunities and because they were in the lead and didn’t need to force the action.

            Also, Arsenal’s sloe start was because of Chelsea’s fast start. They were correlated

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              1 year ago

              You do realize that great attacking opportunities translate to an XG right ? If they couldn’t complete the attacking sequence coz of a bad pass or good defending, then it isn’t an opportunity at all…

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                1 year ago

                There’s a difference between creating attacking opportunities and creating chances. Opportunities just mean that you were in a good position to make something happen, but you let the opportunity pass by. Creating chances tho is you going one step further and taking the opportunity(not necessarily scoring, tho)

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      1 year ago

      It’s also somewhat amusing that we scored our second right in their strongest period of the whole game according to this.