Also, in european football it is common to call players by their surname. Messi, Ronaldo, Haaland, Mbappe, Lewandowski, Benzema, Bellingham etc… in 99% of the time football players are called by their full surname.
It was pretty common for Messi and Ronaldo to be called “Leo” or “Cristiano”. Ronaldo was mostly commonly CR7 too TBF
Maradona was “El Diego” quite often too
Good for him TBH
But I dont know how much longer Allegri terrorist football can bring results
@/u/mister_allegri
Thoughts, my friend?
Haven’t Roma been the perennial xG under performers from all of Mourinho’s 3 seasons?
They were in their first 2 seasons. Last season it was largely Tammy, Pellegrini, Belotti, and Zaniolo underperforming by a huge margin. The season before it was largely Tammy, Zaniolo, and Mancini
This season they’re actually over-performing on offense (19G + 1 own goal scored on 14.1 xg; getting rid of Tammy and Zaniolo and having Lukaku + Dybala being fit so far has been a big upgrade there).
They just had a few unlucky games early before that corrected recently + they’re underperforming massively on defense—a large part of that is Rui Patricio having a historically bad season TBH
Even the staunchest of Barça fans would tell you that there was only one team on the park for the first 80 minutes. Celta played them off it but then played right into Barça’s hands with the most stupid tactical decisions
You are kind of making my point for me here TBH
He’s not a complete donkey but he frequently makes bad decisions that swing games away from his team
If the ball hits the post instead of finding the net, if a cross is just an inch too high, if the keeper got his fingertips to the ball but couldn’t prevent conceding, that’s all got to do with skill issue.
The sample size is WAY too small to determine that it’s “skill” rather than luck
There’s a reason why those kinds of huge xG vs G disparities usually regress to the mean over the long-term
Considering how they started it, Roma are actually doing alright.
It’s funny given how much Mourinho has talked about not liking stats, but the xG showed Roma was a good team even when they started bad—they were just REALLY unlucky in the first few games
Low key tactical dinosaur TBH
Xavi went by his first name too (Xavier Hernandez)