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Bristol will be a tough match but it’s a game we should winning. The only games where you’d ’take a draw’ would be the away games v Ipswich and Southampton. Ipswich will be a tough game and they may overtake us in the xG table (not that relevant) and at home, they don’t lose often. If lose both...

What are you prioritising here? On a per 90 basis, EMC is a much more potent attacking threat, it’s only xA Saka wins. Passing stats tell so much, JDS has better stronger passing stats than MVE but all other categories, MVE is the better player attacking and defensively. To my point, MVE and...

For the second top scorer though. My view is that when push comes to shove, Lampard prefers Haji to BTA. If Simms starts v Boro and continues a decent run of form, it complicates team selection further. Not necessarily a bad thing!

What does that look like for the whole season? Sakamoto has 3 more successful crosses than EMC and a better %. Fotmob gives the % and successful crosses but not the number of attempts. EMC has created more chances, better xG but less xA. In short, they serve different roles and imo, EMC is...

There’s a lot of teams in false positions. Hull, PNE, Stoke, Boro and Bristol are all a lot higher than they should be. Teams like Ipswich, Southampton, Blues, Watford and Blackburn are all massively underperforming. Of all those teams, you’d expect Ipswich, Southampton and Blues to finish in...

A win at Boro puts us 10 points ahead of 2nd even if Stoke beat Charlton. 10 points clear of 2nd at this point and it takes some doing to not be in the automatic promotion come Jan. There’s been a lot ‘take a draw’ games and had we taken it, our lead at the top would be less commanding. It’s...

Simms has been good this season and Wright’s injury is an opportunity for him to stake a claim for a starting berth. Played quality v Pompey, got an assist v Stoke and got a goal yesterday. Away to Boro, he should start.

What helps Tats out is having MVE on the overlap rather than JDS. When we attack on the left, it’s EMC taking on someone whereas Tats will move the ball to his left foot and either cross it, or give it to MVE. Often, Sakmoto doesn’t take on defenders but will hold the ball up before laying it...

Probably gives the club a pretence for shoving away fans in the corner to get even more home fans in.

We’re going to win this one, 2-0.

The ticket office needs sorting out. A few of my mates and I missed the first 15m of the game today because our ST were cancelled. The reason being that because we upgraded to hospitals for a league game in December, the STs were cancelled and put up for sale. Compounding this all was there...

I don’t think we will. We’ve beaten most of the teams in top half for xG and actual top half. We’ve built on our post Xmas form under Lampard from last season so there’s a lot to be optimistic about. This season feels like the 19/20 season in L1 where after Wycombe away, we looked like we’d...

We’ve got to go all out in the Jan transfer market to secure promotion. We’re tracking v well to more or less secure a playoff berth by Xmas (not mathematically). 2-4 solid additions will see us through. We all know the squad is a little thin and we can’t afford to risk an injury crisis...

Clearly I didn’t proof read that! 😂

We’re just elite. All aboard HMS Victory!

I don’t we have to worry about King pushing for an FA Cup run this season. Everything will be geared towards securing promotion because that’s where the money is. For once, this season I want us to draw a Prem Team who’s ground I’ve not been too with City, Liverpool, Man City, Villa, Chelsea...

Oh yeah we’ve scored some ridiculously low xG chances (basically all Torp’s goals). Despite this, the xG we’ve created surpasses all teams by a significant margin, after us (34 xG), Southampton are on 29 xG. We’ve been an attacking juggernaut this season!

Hull, Boro and Derby are all over performing their xG by 8, 7 and 6 points. The underlying data has us as comfortably the best team in the division in terms of points, xG and even xGA (4th best). The only sense that we’re over performing is that we’re more dominant than the actual xG which...

Tbf, neither did WBA. I’m pretty confident we’ll take of business on Tuesday. Boro are over performing in the old xG table.

Best result so far this season. Performance wasn’t great in parts, but to come back from 2-0 down was a big achievement today. 2 comeback wins in recent weeks is a great sign for our season too. In a v general sense, under Lampard you could assume we’d win if we take the lead and lose if we...