[Albion] Premier League 16/04/25

[jakarta]

Come on Newcastle. More goals required

A fifth for the Toon - happy?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

That was brilliant: Wharton on the edge of the Newcastle box, looking for space to shoot and tripped over his own feet

 

[dwayne]

That was brilliant: Wharton on the edge of the Newcastle box, looking for space to shoot and tripped over his own feet

Don't get the hype with that kid. Pacy and clever but gives it away so much.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Oh. Callum Wilson is coming on.

Newcastle have given up. Boooooooo.

 

[Gabbiano]

Both Villa and Newcastle have really come into good form at the right time. If between them they can push Chelsea and City out, great.

 

[hart's shirt]

5-0 down and you have a chance to score...

"Play resumes and Palace race forward. Daniel Munoz is up and meets a looping cross but Eddie Nketiah is in the way and it strikes his back when Munoz's header was going in."

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Newcastle xG: 1.28

Palace xG: 1.71

 

[A1X]

Newcastle xG: 1.28

Palace xG: 1.71

Confirming, yet again, that xG is essentially bollocks

 

[Motogull]

Hoping for a Newcastle win, by as many goals as possible.

Lovely ain't it?

 

[birthofanorange]

Come on...one more for luck.

 

[London Irish]

Jason Tindall’s moment in the limelight - which will make him look an even deeper shade of orange

 

[Gazwag]

Newcastle are playing Glad all over now

 

[birthofanorange]

Ah well, that'll have to do.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Nice that Palace have used their game in hand to slip even further behind us.

Taken 6 pts from us and still 5 pts behind and -6 GD.

Super Oli Glasner.

 

[nickbrighton]

Confirming, yet again, that xG is essentially bollocks

Ive said this ever since it started being used , along with a load of the other stats that are trotted out , there is only one stat that matters at the end of a game. Even something apparently as straightforward as possession is no longer an indicator of who is doing better in a game. There are simply too many variables in style of play, wind direction and speed, length of grass, etc ! . The "win probability" is another made up stat to simply encourage betting and give clueless commentators something to drone on about. All these stats are basically a case of "emperors new clothes"

 

[Hugo Rune]

Nice that Palace have used their game in hand to slip even further behind us.

Taken 6 pts from us and still 5 pts behind and -6 GD.

Super Oli Glasner.

They'll be fine. Only Bournemouth, Arsenal, Villa then Forest and their difficult run of fixtures is over.

 

[loz]

Palace get a good old fashioned beating, which is fair enough. But can we now say XG is absolutely bollocks. Newcastle XG 1.39 palace XG 2.0…so how does that measure with a 5.0 thrashing ??

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Palace get a good old fashioned beating, which is fair enough. But can we now say XG is absolutely bollocks. Newcastle XG 1.39 palace XG 2.0…so how does that measure with a 5.0 thrashing ??

As a measure of what the score should have been, yes it's bollocks.
As a way of measuring the effectiveness of the attacking team, it's a pretty decent measure.

 

[nsclurker]

Palace get a good old fashioned beating, which is fair enough. But can we now say XG is absolutely bollocks. Newcastle XG 1.39 palace XG 2.0…so how does that measure with a 5.0 thrashing ??

That their finishing is even worse than ours.

Except when they play us.

 

[Justice]

We couldn’t lay a glove on Palace