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Treble said:
Which is kind of fair enough. But that's sport Astro, doesn't mean you can feel hard done by if you don't end up converting those chances or that the score is somehow incorrect.

Always say, if you don't score you have no argument for saying you deserved to win. Because it's a split second when you couldn't score, of which you have another 5399 to do so and you still couldn't.

It's like 2005 Cup final. We battered Arsenal for 90 minutes. Should've/Could've/Would've won, but didn't score so in the end when we lost on pens I had no qualms at all. We didn't deserve it.
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Or that ****ing 0-1 game where your boys beat us at St James in '95 which meant you won the title that year. We utterly battered you, one-way traffic all match. You scored, you won and clinched a tight title race. blah blah fine margins etc etc, you got more points than us and deserved the title. Just how it is.

****s.
 
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West WindsR said:
It’s based on success/failure from similar positions across thousands of similar chances. It’s really only meant to be used for betting probabilities but has somehow become a thing.
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Yeah from what I've read it's actually quite in-depth. Still bollocks though.
 
Treble said:
Which is kind of fair enough. But that's sport Astro, doesn't mean you can feel hard done by if you don't end up converting those chances or that the score is somehow incorrect.

Always say, if you don't score you have no argument for saying you deserved to win. Because it's a split second when you couldn't score, of which you have another 5399 to do so and you still couldn't.

It's like 2005 Cup final. We battered Arsenal for 90 minutes. Should've/Could've/Would've won, but didn't score so in the end when we lost on pens I had no qualms at all. We didn't deserve it.
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There's definitely no "deserve" about xG, but you can use it to show you were in the game even if you don't score, and if the actual scoreline is a lot different to the xG then you can say the result "flattered them"
 
astro said:
There's definitely no "deserve" about xG, but you can use it to show you were in the game even if you don't score, and if the actual scoreline is a lot different to the xG then you can say the result "flattered them"
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Or you can say your strikers are ****
 
astro said:
There's definitely no "deserve" about xG, but you can use it to show you were in the game even if you don't score, and if the actual scoreline is a lot different to the xG then you can say the result "flattered them"
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Mate, putting the ball in the back of the net is a pretty key part of the game.

I wouldn't say that alone can be used to say it flattered them. Also as some have mentioned earlier, it really is subjective.

Fwiw Athletico Madrid under Simeone a few years ago were the bane of Barca. They seemed to get the better of them because they did what Liverpool tried to do last week. Very similar tbh. But Athletico Madrid were just more effective.
 
Everybody ready for some nice non-partisan commentary and punditry from a well balanced panel of ex-players?
 
haslam said:
Or that ****ing 0-1 game where your boys beat us at St James in '95 which meant you won the title that year. We utterly battered you, one-way traffic all match. You scored, you won and clinched a tight title race. blah blah fine margins etc etc, you got more points than us and deserved the title. Just how it is.

****s.
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<laugh>

Oooh Aaah... ah you know the rest :p
 
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