Great article. Really interesting to hear the stats. I thought teams had just made an error when they kicked off to out of play. I wonder with Harry if his drop off was caused by defenders being more aware of his threat.
You don't need any statistical analysis whatsoever to recognise that Fulham's style of attacking play was never going to be particularly effective. My 5 year old could see that slowly manouvering the ball to the corners of the oppoistion penalty area and then just knocking it about waiting for an opportunity to present itself was never going to produce a high Xg. It's the most easily defended 'tactic' you could possibly think of. Praying for some more direct, common sense attacking play next season, more than any increased statistics based tinkering.
I have been saying we need to get the ball forward much faster and cut out all the back passes especially the ones to Leno whose distribution is awful.
Great article. Really interesting to hear the stats. I thought teams had just made an error when they kicked off to out of play. I wonder with Harry if his drop off was caused by defenders being more aware of his threat.
Maybe the club should bring in Big Sam?
You don't need any statistical analysis whatsoever to recognise that Fulham's style of attacking play was never going to be particularly effective. My 5 year old could see that slowly manouvering the ball to the corners of the oppoistion penalty area and then just knocking it about waiting for an opportunity to present itself was never going to produce a high Xg. It's the most easily defended 'tactic' you could possibly think of. Praying for some more direct, common sense attacking play next season, more than any increased statistics based tinkering.
I have been saying we need to get the ball forward much faster and cut out all the back passes especially the ones to Leno whose distribution is awful.
John Beck was right all along! Does make football seem a bit more like a 'territorial' game like rugby.