You can argue Chelsea benefitted from one lucky handball decision and a miskick cross, but otherwise didn’t create that much. While Arsenal didn’t do that much either, we did dominate possession. That said I thought we passed the ball around a lot in midfield, not the final third
Yeah exactly. I do think game state is doing something for us here… Behind for 60 minutes, they had little incentive to open up and go attacking. That said they were broadly “on top” for long periods and did very little. I don’t rate them in the slightest (but we were very poor).
Was exactly this. We dominated the game but didn’t control it. Field tilt is probably the best representation of a team’s performance hence why City have ranked top of it pretty much every season of the last 5 years. It’s a good thing that we pretty much always win this because it means we are better than the opposition every game.
I don’t see how you can claim to be objective as a Chelsea fan considering you’re happy to ignore all the statistics that show Arsenal were comfortably the better team.
But sure “everybody” agrees with you. Clearly you’re being reasonable, objective and unbiased.
Lol… Not really… Chelsea had a 1.8xG vs 1.5xG for Arsenal… 0.9 of Chelsea’s XG was the penalty… They looked like they dominated but created jackshit… It was more of our own slow start than Chelsea being any good tbh…
You do realize that great attacking opportunities translate to an XG right ? If they couldn’t complete the attacking sequence coz of a bad pass or good defending, then it isn’t an opportunity at all…
There’s a difference between creating attacking opportunities and creating chances. Opportunities just mean that you were in a good position to make something happen, but you let the opportunity pass by. Creating chances tho is you going one step further and taking the opportunity(not necessarily scoring, tho)
You can argue Chelsea benefitted from one lucky handball decision and a miskick cross, but otherwise didn’t create that much. While Arsenal didn’t do that much either, we did dominate possession. That said I thought we passed the ball around a lot in midfield, not the final third
Yeah exactly. I do think game state is doing something for us here… Behind for 60 minutes, they had little incentive to open up and go attacking. That said they were broadly “on top” for long periods and did very little. I don’t rate them in the slightest (but we were very poor).
Was exactly this. We dominated the game but didn’t control it. Field tilt is probably the best representation of a team’s performance hence why City have ranked top of it pretty much every season of the last 5 years. It’s a good thing that we pretty much always win this because it means we are better than the opposition every game.
Uhm, you dominated possession(which Chelsea allowed you to)but not the game.
Also, any objective person knows Chelsea was the better team in this game, and Field tilt without context is borderline useless
I don’t think you know what objective means.
I do, tho, and that’s why everybody bar a certain section of Arsenal fans, knows Chelsea was the better team.
I don’t see how you can claim to be objective as a Chelsea fan considering you’re happy to ignore all the statistics that show Arsenal were comfortably the better team.
But sure “everybody” agrees with you. Clearly you’re being reasonable, objective and unbiased.
Lol… Not really… Chelsea had a 1.8xG vs 1.5xG for Arsenal… 0.9 of Chelsea’s XG was the penalty… They looked like they dominated but created jackshit… It was more of our own slow start than Chelsea being any good tbh…
Chelsea only has 1.8G because they squandered great attacking opportunities and because they were in the lead and didn’t need to force the action.
Also, Arsenal’s sloe start was because of Chelsea’s fast start. They were correlated
You do realize that great attacking opportunities translate to an XG right ? If they couldn’t complete the attacking sequence coz of a bad pass or good defending, then it isn’t an opportunity at all…
There’s a difference between creating attacking opportunities and creating chances. Opportunities just mean that you were in a good position to make something happen, but you let the opportunity pass by. Creating chances tho is you going one step further and taking the opportunity(not necessarily scoring, tho)
It’s also somewhat amusing that we scored our second right in their strongest period of the whole game according to this.