Champagneblade
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New manager or not for West Brom, United are due a big win soon and hopefully it is this weekend.
Our attacking play has continued to be decent. You'd think our luck will turn some time soon.
Having scored twice at the weekend we registered an xG of almost 4.
We have, I believe as at the weekend the highest xG of anyone. Even Man City.
It seems even more of an anomaly that we haven't scored more given a stable of strikers that includes McBurnie, Sharp, Brewster and N'Diaye.
The goals we gave away against Norwich were a gift in the first instance and a combination of bad fortune and bad play in the second. Surely we can't keep giving away these freakish goals?
As frustrating as it was to lose to Coventry, their goal was completely unnecessary from our side and it isn't often you hit both the post and the bar in one game. Lady Luck certainly hasn't been shining on United of late.
Even the prior match, we missed a penalty, had another for blatant handball not given and a good goal disallowed. With a fair wind we'd have picked up more from all three of these fixtures. Even in the away game at Stoke, at a crucial point N'Diaye hit the post and it came out only for then to score in off the post to take the lead.
Looking up in the league, I'm uncomfortable that we've allowed such a good start to slip and the 4 points difference to the automatics grates because a win won't even put us back into the top two.
But looking up, we hammered Blackburn. I don't see them finishing above us. You can file QPR's win as a good away performance, but 21 shots to 10 doesn't tell me they are a better team than us head to head.
Burnley I can't quite figure out. They are obviously well organised but they don't have an amazing goal scorer. They have been fortunate with injuries too. Some luck there also. A pen given last night and Norwich being down on senior players must have aided their dominance.
But it really is time for the senior pros to step up now. And for that matter the coaching staff.
Whoever plays we will field an experienced, capable keeper, certainly more so than West Brom, having lost Sam Johnstone.
The defence we can put out, if Osborn can replicate his second half against Norwich, should be strong. We kept a clean sheet away at Preston with 4/5 of this defence. Robinson is now back too to add strength and depth and is naturally left footed.
For West Brom, they've been playing a back three of O'Shea, Bartley and Pieters. Bartley is out as he got sent off, O'Shea was at fault for Millwall's winner and Pieters went off. They don't look in especially good shape defensively either.
They can certainly be got at.
The new manager timing is a tad unfortunate as you'd rather face a team meandering than one with renewed hope, but no saying there will be immediate impact.
Time for United to play to our potential. Need a big game from them. They owe it to us after the results of late. Hopefully they can seize the moment.
Our attacking play has continued to be decent. You'd think our luck will turn some time soon.
Having scored twice at the weekend we registered an xG of almost 4.
We have, I believe as at the weekend the highest xG of anyone. Even Man City.
It seems even more of an anomaly that we haven't scored more given a stable of strikers that includes McBurnie, Sharp, Brewster and N'Diaye.
The goals we gave away against Norwich were a gift in the first instance and a combination of bad fortune and bad play in the second. Surely we can't keep giving away these freakish goals?
As frustrating as it was to lose to Coventry, their goal was completely unnecessary from our side and it isn't often you hit both the post and the bar in one game. Lady Luck certainly hasn't been shining on United of late.
Even the prior match, we missed a penalty, had another for blatant handball not given and a good goal disallowed. With a fair wind we'd have picked up more from all three of these fixtures. Even in the away game at Stoke, at a crucial point N'Diaye hit the post and it came out only for then to score in off the post to take the lead.
Looking up in the league, I'm uncomfortable that we've allowed such a good start to slip and the 4 points difference to the automatics grates because a win won't even put us back into the top two.
But looking up, we hammered Blackburn. I don't see them finishing above us. You can file QPR's win as a good away performance, but 21 shots to 10 doesn't tell me they are a better team than us head to head.
Burnley I can't quite figure out. They are obviously well organised but they don't have an amazing goal scorer. They have been fortunate with injuries too. Some luck there also. A pen given last night and Norwich being down on senior players must have aided their dominance.
But it really is time for the senior pros to step up now. And for that matter the coaching staff.
Whoever plays we will field an experienced, capable keeper, certainly more so than West Brom, having lost Sam Johnstone.
The defence we can put out, if Osborn can replicate his second half against Norwich, should be strong. We kept a clean sheet away at Preston with 4/5 of this defence. Robinson is now back too to add strength and depth and is naturally left footed.
For West Brom, they've been playing a back three of O'Shea, Bartley and Pieters. Bartley is out as he got sent off, O'Shea was at fault for Millwall's winner and Pieters went off. They don't look in especially good shape defensively either.
They can certainly be got at.
The new manager timing is a tad unfortunate as you'd rather face a team meandering than one with renewed hope, but no saying there will be immediate impact.
Time for United to play to our potential. Need a big game from them. They owe it to us after the results of late. Hopefully they can seize the moment.
, which seem to have more, and more unquestioning, worshippers than the Christian faith these days, conversations about xG are not conversations about facts, they are conversations about the far more vague opinions and models.
