Numbers to back up my positivity.....

Everyone knows that I love stats and am (sometimes) overly positive, I have combined the two today.

Good evening ladies and gents,

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Today I am going to provide some stats to prove my positivity…… i.e. show that we are gradually improving, albeit still toothless at times in front of goal.

I have calculated everything over a 10 game period, split 5 & 5.

Last week I released an article which was surprisingly (for me) warmly received and mostly agreed with, even when I believed I was being overly positive, so today I want to back that up factually.

In the last 5 games we have accumulated 11.4XG, compared to just 7.9 in the 5 fixtures previous. That is a huge 3.5XG improvement in the last 5 games, people will argue fixtures and opponents, but th elast 5 games have all been against teams that implement a really effective low-block, something we are renowned for struggling to create or score against.

In the last 5 games we have conceded 5 goals, keeping 2 clean sheets along the way. In the 5 games previously we conceded 14 goals, which needless to say is a huge improvement. Again, people will argue fixtures and opponents, but in the previous 5 games we faced an out of sorts Newcastle and Manchester United and conceded a total 6 goals.

In those first 5 fixtures we conceded 11.7XG, in the last 5 fixtures we conceded 5.9XG, a massive improvement of 5.8XG. I wont continue to bang the drum of “fixtures and opponents”.

We averaged 49.7% possession in the first 5 fixtures, in the last 5 we have averaged 62.4% and which is a huge improvement.

At this point you all get the point that I am trying to prove.

A short and sweet article today, but hopefully one that lands a punch.

Please give me your thoughts and opinions below.

Thanks for reading!

Luke Rushbrook