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Originally Posted by BAIDS
otoh played 60 mins vs 9 men stoke and came away with roughly equal xG. cant be a good omen
BAIDS makes good points ..
but the glass-half-full view is
i) we won the game and in a characteristically Pulis way sat on a 0-1 away lead. ok, not particularly convincingly but still ...
Again, I'm not sure what the value of the xG-stats are in individual games, eg, at specific scorelines. There's a lot hidden in there and because of the name it is more hidden than the shots/shots on target stats.
(I do believe that the generators of that stat calculate it reflects eventual points totals better than/as well as, eg, shots-on-target-vs-shot-on-target-allowed.)
ii) Berahino. I'm pretty sure he will improve the quality available from that for the Stoke game until he next becomes unsettled - ie early December.