- Jul 19, 2015
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xG is a really useful statistic. It allows the measurement of the quality of chances a team are creating during games (and also conceding). Under Poch in the last 8 months we were increasingly conceding good chances and creating fewer and fewer ourselves, to the point that nearly every game could be lost. For us to go away to an in-form team and only concede 0.8 xG (translated to 1 goal) shows how Mourinho has improved us defensively around our penalty area. For example, for all of Wolves possession and width they only had 5 out of 22 completed crosses all game.