Considering how many injuries we have had this season, we have been extremely solid all over the pitch. Just add a midfielder to partner with Rice and hope our attackers stay fit during the run-in, I feel we will be comfortably challenging for the PL.

Guys, this isn’t Arsenals xg in our games. Its how much xg have been creating by both teams in our games. It also indicates we allow little xg from our opponents as well. Notice how we are just slightly below City.

A better visualization would be to split the bars into for/against

I mean Emery always said he’d rather with 6-5 or whatever.

So we’re boring to watch

This isn’t clear. I’d like to see xG for and against. I know we’ve not been creating as much but we’ve not given many easy chances away either.

This is an example of bad data visualisation

That adds up. Defensively we’ve been very good but I feel like Arteta is demaning an extremely safe game in possession this season, which means a boring attack. Hopefully this is a temporary measure because until now we’ve been on a steady trajectory for the last 3 years when it comes to play attacking, exciting football - but Arteta knows how to organize a defence when he needs to and for some reason it’s coming down on our offense much more than last year.

STACK THE GRAPH FOR FOR/AGAINST GOD DAMN IT, MAN!
*sigh*

So are we top of XG Conversion then?

Sums it up really. Worlds of difference compared to last season but we’re still somehow getting points on the board.

We need to go on a winning run til Christmas at least (anfield included hopefully) and get these players confidence boosted

Wow we really improved, this is massive

Y-axis is not xero

Im surprised Chelsea is so high, they’ve typically had a lot of sterile possession and often win the xG each game. I wonder if the spurs game maybe shifts them quite considerably

I feel like most goals against us has been a minor lack of concentration leading to a mistake. Of course that can be said for most goals, but it rarely feels like we get outplayed when we concede (well, outplayed by anyone other than refs). Long term I have very high hopes. As long as we can recreate some of the flow of last season offensively, anything can happen. When Ødegaard comes back and Havertz build on the confidence on ball he’s been showing tidbits of lately, I believe.

This confirms my belief that forest are a really good team. Every time I watch them, I’m impressed. They defend well and attack in just the right moments. We did well to walk away from that game with 3 points