The underlying Xg from our last 2 games do show that we haven't been our usual selves.
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All season long we've been absolutely killing it on this measure, us and Wolves have been way ahead of everyone else, and arguably we've been even better than them, other than the Preston 3-0 I can't think of other occasions we've been so behind on Xg, our other losses have been even or us comfortably ahead.
So even though we won both of these games, I think it is perfectly legitimate to be cautiously concerned about having to face better sides in the coming weeks.
In both games we appear to not create much from half time and the opposition starts creating much more. I don't doubt that the injuries and fatigue are having an effect, so hopefully we can improve (performance wise, not result wise) when we strt getting players back.
Over the season as a whole we've created on average an xG of 1.7ish per match, which is second only to Brentford, and allowed an xG against of 0.9ish which is second lowest to Wolves.
Over the last 2 we've averaged 1.3 xG in attack and 2.2 xG conceded. Yeah you can win the occasional game like that, but over a longer period the results tend to eventually follow (unless you're Reading from last season)