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For all the poor we were, if you watch MOTD we probably had the better chances, particularly the 3 in the first half.
Hoillet being wiped out when he had the tap in
The one Bamba hit straight at the keeper ( although called offside)
The corner which 2 of our players missed at the far post.
Etheridge made 1 save of note as although Huddersfield played by far the better football they were short of any pace or confidence up front. It was all too slow, and in general we defended well.
Worrying lack of any ability to hold the ball up , interlink and pass or create any real openings though, against a side who’s defence is one of the poorest in the division.
Even more worrying is I can’t see how it’s going to be solved.
Confused as to why Reid and Murphy weren’t used in the last 20 when the game broke up and Reid must be wondering why he’s now behind a league 1 striker in the pecking order.
We need the old Ken back or a really good striker in - by Saturday
It’s going to be a nervy few weeks
On the positive side, that’s 3 clean sheets in 4 games and only 1 defeat ( v Spurs), our results v non top 6 recently have been respectable, I though Manga had another decent game and at least we didn’t lose or have anyone sent off and aren’t in the bottom 3... small mercies
Do you not think this is nervous and exciting.
Short of quality, yes, absolutely, but every point is critical.
If I was an Everton fan I doubt I’d be that bothered.
1 goal yesterday and we would be sitting pretty.
1 for them and they have a ray of hope and we are dragged further in it.
They literally said, no penalty to Cardiff and stuck the credits on.
I don’t normally watch MOTD, I’m only really interested in our game and even then not bothered unless there’s something specific to watch. Only happened to turn it on as I went to bed last night and we were on.and if we are away I’ll be travelling back or just got home and too knackered to bother. TBH I didn’t even know they mentioned it. As I said earlier, I only brought it up after th Man U game as someone had already posted it.
It’s easy to see incidents - the penalty ones were on Twitter almost straight after the game.
Or watch it on Sky the next day, where the commentary is better and you haven’t got the shitty analysis from the likes of Linekar and Wright.
I did think we had the better chances, however they had far more, but were wasteful.
I doubt xg would include Bamba’s offside effort or score us much for either Hoillets one or the missed header at the far post.
Would the fact that they had more chances not get reflected in the xg ?
https://understat.com/league/EPL
It seems these figures are calculated in different ways by different people. This site (the first that appeared that when I put expected goals Premier League into Google) has the figures at 0.12 v 0.39. As I've said on several occasions, to me it's just a load of crap anyway.
Here’s a link to the video.
https://twitter.com/jardineofficial/...139862017?s=21
I’ve got a freeze frame off it and it looks to me like Hoillet got to the ball first and the defender has come though the back of Hoillet’s ankle in his slide.
If he has got there first then it’s an awesome tackle - if he hasn’t it’s reckless and a game changer.
Although I think it’s a penalty I do have some sympathy for the ref in this instance as even with the benefit of replays and freeze frames there wil still be disagreements over it
I saw it on Match of the Day this morning. They freeze-framed it also. Fair tackle and no penalty was the verdict. Theirs and mine.
As for Huddersfield's 'penalty', City got away with one there. Bennett definitely fouled Hadergjonaj, although he did go down too easily. People on here would be livid if the roles had been reversed and the same thing had happened at the other end, that's for sure.
The MOTD analysis, although I was half asleep was limited.
The Huddersfield penalty was overruled as the linesman felt Bennett had been fouled first.
They didn’t even mention that.
As for ours, watching it over and over again the Huddersfield defender doesn’t take the ball at all - he takes Hoillet’s heel and Hoillet is actually the one who contacts the ball.
I’ve posted the point of contact on the other site as I don’t know how to do it on here.
Not that it matters. It’s done now and doesn’t hide the fact we were poor and lucky to get a point