Chelsea have been beaten by Arsenal after a truly dire performance at home.
In the end it was a 1-0 defeat, with the away side’s goal coming from a corner after some truly pathetic defending from Chelsea. It could easily have been 2 or 3 nil however, as the stats bear out.
The Expected Goals – a way of measuring how good the chances a team had were – says that Chelsea had 0.24 to Arsenal’s 2.38. That means Chelsea would have had to play more than 4 games to create enough to be worth a goal, while the Gunners had the chances to score well over 2 goals today.
Chelsea (0.24) 0-1 (2.38) Arsenal
— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) November 6, 2022
Stats don’t tell the whole story, but in this case they totally mirror what we saw on the pitch – a non existent attacking performance combined with inexcusable defensive weakness.
We are in deep, deep trouble now, after a run of wins over weak teams that gave the impression we’re any good.
We have just spent 250 million on rubbish
TOLD YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 AT THE BACK DUMP CUCURELLA HALF THE TEAM BOOKED DUE TO LACK OF DISCIPLINE NO PUNCH BECAUSE IDIOT COACH HAS NOT GOT A CLUE ON A SETTLED SIDE GOT WHAT YOU DESERVED SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE BUT THEY MISSED SITTERS. WE ARE NOW THE EMBARASSMENT OF LONDON, SOON FULHAM WILL BE ABOVE US. THIS COACH IS NOT CAPABLE OF RUNNING A BIG CLUB, SO MANY GOOD ONES AVAILABLE FOR CHRIST SAKE GO AND GET ONE.