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I feel more positive having looked at the stats of Villa over the last 4 games. Their 7 point return looks a big outlier. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve looked at the last 4 league games for A Villa. These were home games against Wolves...

TLDR of the stats. Opta xG of AFCB 1.64 Man Utd 1.26. If the debatable penalty calls had been reversed this would have been 2.33 vs 0.47. High positioning on the left side – all of Sinisterra, Kerkez and Kelly had average positions in the Man Utd half. Kerkez have the most touches in the...

The Opta expected goals had Kerkez as most likely to score for AFCB (0.63) with both Kluivert (0.37) and Solanke (0.28) being above 0.25. For assists, Christie was highest with 0.20, and with Smith (0.13), Kluivert (0.11) and Solanke (0.1) being 10% or more.

Senesi made most defensive actions with 14. He made most interceptions (3), Christie made most recoveries (9), Zabarnyi made most clearances (4) whilst Christie and Kerkez made the most blocks. According to Opta, AFCB made no errors leading to a shot. The foul count was AFCB 13, Man U 14...

AFCB won 12 of 28 aerials duals. Ouatarra won 3 from 5 and Christie and Kelly both won 2 from 2. AFCB won 19 out of 24 tackles. Zabarnyi won 4 from 4, Smith won 3 form 3 and Senesi won 3 from 3.

We created 17 chances (2 big). Man U created 5 chances with none big. We had 20 attempts (3 big) noting that chances can be provided after saves, deflections or a defensive error and not created. We hit the target 5 times. Man U had 8 attempts, 2 big, and hit the target twice.

AFCB attempted 25 crosses being successful with 6. Smith was successful with 2 out of 2. Our players tried to take on a man 18 times being successful 9 times. Solanke was joint top with 2 successful attempts from 2 attempts.

Cook attempted 49 passes, with the centre backs, Senesi (45) and Zabarnyi (43). Cook had most in the opposition half, and was joint second in the final third (along with Ouattara) with 11, with Solanke leading with 13. AFCB averaged 75% completion. From the starting eleven Christie and Kerkez...

Cook had most touches with 63 with Christie second with 61. Christie had most touches in the opposition half (40) whilst Solanke had most in the final third with 26. We had 32 touches in the opposition’s penalty area (a season high) with Kerkez having 7 and Solanke 6.

The average positions show that we targeted the Man Utd right hand side. Smith (15), Zabarnyi (27) and Senesi (25) had standard positions for a high-pressing team, yet Kerkez’s (3) average position was as high as Solanke (9). Kelly (5) came on for the injured Sinisterra (19) and played as high...

Here is the xG from the Man U game, which doesn’t tell all the story in relation to the penalties given and not given. AFCB had attacking attempt and were 1-0 inside the first 15 minutes with Solanke driving past Onana (rated 1 in 9). Shortly after Rashford had a chance that was hit poorly into...

We are now :)

I’ve looked at the last 4 league games for Man U. These were two home games (Everton and Liverpool) and away at Brentford and Chelsea. Man U gained 5 points although the xGs suggested this was an overperformance with the team being better than Everton but being comprehensively outplayed in the...

Liverpool please AC