I'm cracking up at this: So there is now a set of shots that have a higher xG if you miss them than if you score them thanks to VAR. What a world.— Mike L. Goodman (@TheM_L_G) January 14, 2020
Spurs sign Portuguese and Benficia Midfielder Gedeson Frenades on a 18 month loan. Rumours are Yanited is set to make a shocking double signing of Napoli Koulibaly Portuguese Midfielder Bruno Frenades...
Let them overpay for a CB again, still suck, its great for us Honestly, they should be targetting Allan on the same team, not K2.
I love this. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/16/js-saint-pierroise-coupe-de-france-upset-reunion Amateur team from the French overseas territory of Reunion are in the last 32 of the French Cup!
interesting that New Caldonian clubs as far a I know don't compete in this and compete and compete in OFC Champions league. Hienghene Sport recently in fact won the OFC Champions League and competed and took Al Sadd to extra time in the World Club Championship. Would be interesting to see how a team like that would do in the competition. Edit: I take it back! Hienghene do compete in this. Interesting...
Bielik did his knee at Derby. Out for rest of season. Makes us feel a tad better about letting him go?
I missed this article, but statsbomb think Kane might be done His shot volume is gone. “Harry Kane is Broken” fever is sweeping the soccer Twitter world. And that was before Harry Kane actually limped off the pitch against Southampton on Wednesday with an apparent hamstring injury. Nearly a year ago, Ted Knutson first mentioned on the StatsBomb podcast that Kane might be Fernando Torres-ing. I was resistant. I thought some time off this summer, time he did not have in 2018, would finally give him some rest and let his ankles heal, helping him to regain the proprioception that allowed him to Moneyball his way to becoming a shot monster despite his relatively limited athleticism. That’s certainly not happened. He’s declined markedly in terms of shot generation and has not made up for it by improving elsewhere. However, Kane has managed to maintain his elite finishing ability. Over his career, he has outperformed his non-penalty expected goals by around 20%. When he kicks the ball, he still hits it hard and to the right places. The problem is that he does not shoot anymore. When Nabil Bentaleb and Ryan Mason were Spurs’ midfield in 2014–15, Harry Kane took 4 shots per match. At his best, in 2017–18 (before the ankle injury that truly derailed his career), he took nearly 6 shots per 90 minutes. Now, Harry Kane attempts under three shots per 90, and his xG per shot has decreased. His non-penalty xG per 90 is a paltry 0.3. Relatedly, in 2017–18 Tottenham had 1.8 xG per match but have dipped to 1.3 xG per match, even as Son Heung-Min remains excellent. It’s bad, folks. https://statsbomb.com/2020/01/harry-kane-and-the-death-of-a-shot-monster/
True. And my comment was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. We feel bad for Bielik. But we'd feel bad for us if we still owned him. Ps. I was a bit disappointed when we sold him.
Always nice to see them lose, now they will be coming out like gangbusters on Tuesday though for the Derby lol
Amazing what a case of impotency Leicester has developed in the last month. The challengers sure are conspiring to give Liverpool the title!
Leicester never any threat to Liverpool even before this dip in form. Not sure why LC is experiencing this dip --- don't think it can all be chalked up to Ndidi's injury.