Stop pretending it's some sort of judgement saying Villa are bad at football - in fact, it's saying the opposite
It is being portrayed as the reason it's 'not sustainable', though. That's the judgement people are getting annoyed about.
I get that. The distinction I’m making is why don’t people get annoyed at the folks making those judgments? xG is just numbers. Calling it bollocks is like saying 8 is bollocks, or the square root of 39.64.
You can disagree about it being used to make sweeping conclusions, but your ire should be pointed at those doing so.
It’s just a method to quantify how good are the chances a football team create over time - a
relatively simple number that is at least better than wildly misleading ones like ‘possession’ or ‘shots on target’.
Is it really a shock to learn that pundits or analysts oversimplify things in order to make a point?
Aside: I still don’t see what is so unreasonable about expecting Villa to not ‘sustain’ our current form. I don’t think we’ve put together 90min of ‘good’ football yet. (Which is fine, I think it’s definitely part of Emery’s plan to rotate squads and expend the least effort winning games as possible - but to look at our performances and think we’re never losing again is willful ignorance, imo. Not that I wouldn’t love it to happen, mind. 😆)
