Jimmy_D

Ah, sloppy defending there, unusual for England these days.

It was Linetty it went just past wasn’t it? Thought Bednarek’s had a decent game actually.

It’s not going to be fixed in our lifetime, not even close. All we can do is speak out against racism, as constantly as racism occurs, and make it as socially unacceptable as possible, by making the normal response to racism to be to speak out against it instead of ignore it. People aren’t going to change their views because of a slogan or a gesture, but friends and family confronting them might shift them slightly, or at least make them less likely to spread their views. If the gestures against racism were to be stopped tomorrow, the most likely response as far as I can see would be that those that hold racist views would see it as vindication that they’re not in the wrong. For this reason alone there’s still a need for them. We can at least leave the fight against it in a better state than we started it with.

Mike Dean maintaining his usual standards of refereeing today I see.

Not so much the first half of last season! Or the second half of the season before. Getting the draws against Man Utd and Newcastle shows we might be getting a bit more grit to keep hold of results as well. Stuart Armstrong coming back into midfield will probably help a bit in terms of keeping control of midfield as well, once he recovers from injury.

Not from a single match. Over time you can judge a player, for example Ings consistently scored above XG for us.

I like it. https://understat.com/league/EPL is the site I use for an at a glance look at how the day's games have gone behind the scoreline.

Sure, that's where XG would be lower than actual goals, because someone's scored a chance that wouldn't normally go in. If you lose 1-0 to a single goal from the halfway line, and that was the biggest chance they had, normally you'd feel like you were pretty unlucky, and XG would reflect that.

As objective as possible, it's based on position of the chance, the ball into them, position of defenders, plus a few other factors, all compared to thousands of previous chances, but obviously someone has to input the data.

XG pretty consistently averages out to a team's actual goals over time. It certainly has its flaws, but 'tis proving to be a useful statistic. It almost always lines up with the 'we were robbed' feelings of fans.

Sort of, basically Newcastle had a good day where they got a bit luckier than expected with the chances they created going in, and we had a day where we were a bit unlucky with the chances we created going in.

XG looks at all the chances by both teams and judges how many they'd normally expect to score based on how good the chances were.

Agreed. Seems strange to say after a game where we've gone behind twice and just managed to nick a draw, but I'd be amazed if Newcastle manage to stay up this season from what I've seen of them so far.

Feels like this team and tactics has a chance of just clicking at some point and sending us on a pretty decent run of results.

2-2 Least we deserved! Funny how I'd have been disappointed about 1-1 and am relatively happy about 2-2

Very very cool finish

I'm not nervous about this at all 😬

Penalty surely?

Flippin' 'eck. Daylight robbery today.

Gerrrrrrrin!

I think it was taking about Elyounoussi possibly getting a chance while Armstrong is injured if Elyounoussi stays at the club this season.

Meh, could be a worse draw I guess

Jeez that was a roller-coaster! Yet another finals day for us!

That'll do

Still time for 9?