Football Twitter nerd stuff

the weird obsession with CR7 continues.

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A lot of the best keepers right now also were 23 or younger when they joined the big clubs; De Gea, Courtois, Oblak. Ederson Moreas the next in that line at 23.

Sky Sports :open_mouth:

Yeah seen it this afternoon they had a football stat analyst on talking about expected goals

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xG has gone mainstream :astonished:

Just as well because thanks to that explanation I now understand xG better than I ever did before

Cant wait for “pundits” to misuse xG next year. I can imagine it being as simple as exp has the score 1.4-1.6 we can clearly see the away team were better and were unlucky to not win. No further elaboration needed. Job done we can all go home.

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Can you imagine Merson trying to use xG to compare strikers. :beer:

Not surprised.

https://twitter.com/StatsBombIQ/status/873156851638181889

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB4NFIPW0AAiyNC.jpg

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Yep, that sounds about right. The guy is not a human.

That is insane… what a player.

http://statsbomb.com/2017/06/passing-percentages-are-mostly-useless-quantifying-passing-ability/

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Interesting read! thanks for sharing.

Welbeck huh… neat.

Elneny clearly a StatDNA signing then :mustafi:

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A couple more bits on Napoli because I can’t get enough of Sarri’s style.

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Should we not count ourselves fortunate to have had 3 of those players, potentially 4 if Laca comes.

I certainly count us lucky for not wasting a mouth watering 35 million on an average Higuain.

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