Yes.
No.
I'll never understand some people's rigid disdain for statistics. Goals scored is a statistic, and it's what the entire game is about. A statistic is just a way to quantify something for comparison with similar situations.
Analytics is all about probabilities - what can you do to maximize the probabilities of scoring goals and minimize the probabilities of conceding. That's where, at a base level of analysis, possession became the Wenger (and others) dream. If you have the ball, the other team can't score.
But, of course, better analysis has come along and proven that your likelihood of scoring decreases proportionally to the length of time you have possession. The "most goals are scored within X seconds of a change of possession". Because, obviously, the longer you have the ball the deeper and more organized the defence gets. At the same time, your own defence pushes higher and becomes less defensively organized and more attacking oriented - leaving you much more vulnerable when you do concede possession
What we do poorly is hold the ball all the time cycling back and around and trying to play ourselves around 2 banks of 4 and through to the 6 yard box. What City and Liverpool at their height do is attack relentlessly, but quickly. Get the ball, move forward with direct intent to score. If you don't, the ball has turned over and the opponents defense is now in transition - press and get the ball back and you're facing a much less organized and rigorous defence.
I like Ange's philosophy of not lumping it out from the back and just giving the ball back to your opponents. But sometimes an attack has fizzled, and instead of just cycling back and side-to-side, just have a fucking shot from 30 yards and turn the play over. If you haven't scored after having the ball for 180 seconds, you're probably not going to score so stop fucking about.
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Well to be fair he would probably organize our defence, and get some decent defenders init’s time…
Also, looking back at the goals… looks like MVDV has caught the Davinson Sanchez condition. Both looked amazing for 6-9 months.
We can say all we want about the bad things Jose, and Conte brought to the club.
But both recognized winners throughout their managerial careers, and there aren't that many in that starting eleven that were out there today.
We struggle against the lowest of the low, something that is glossed over by a goal or three in injury time.
I am still out on Ange, his tactics and unbending plan on how to play the game. Time will tell but I have seen little progress since January, and wonder how he plans to improve players when we all see no genuine improvement playing just one game a week.
After recent performances and results we should not be surprised at that result. I am not sure why many posters put us as favourites for this game. Our defending of corners was abysmal and I am surprised it took so long to concede from a corner. We were the root of our downfall as individual mistakes led to the goals. Difficult to see where our next point is coming from and we need that 10 point cushion between us and 6th. We are missing Richie although I doubt he could have done much today.
Ange now has 2 weeks to get an improvement and he must not just obstinately stick to the same. Does not need to change his way of playing but needs to tweak it. 2 weeks to our next match and I am not looking forward to that as how can we have confidence of a good result after recent results.
Ange now has 2 weeks to get an improvement and he must not just obstinately stick to the same. Does not need to change his way of playing but needs to tweak it. 2 weeks to our next match and I am not looking forward to that as how can we have confidence of a good result after recent results.
Stupid of me to think the two weeks break after today's game will be boring as fuck. I will take today's as the last game of the season and no football for 3 months damn it.
That was mad ridiculous. But refs are untouchable and they know it all too well.
Horribly I agree. We’ve been turgid this calendar year. Maybe it’s written in the stellinis that this time of year is just dogshite.
Because the transfer window has closed???
But i guess we could play an injured Richarlison, or talk Les Ferdinand or Teddy Sheringham into getting out of retirement?
I don’t even think that’s totally true either, we haven’t lost to a side above us have we?
It’s not so much crumbling against quality, I think it’s just not having enough quality to make it pay every week.
A really bad taste in the mouth they've left us for the next 2 weeks 
But then again, no Spurs for the next 2 weeks
But then again, no Spurs for the next 2 weeks
I thought it was just typical Argentina Brazil shit.
True but I can’t remember them playing as badly as this
