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So you're telling me that "how was Coutinho's cum" type of posts are not trash talk?
Better get your thoughts on before it's too late, I already warned about this type of talk, so this is the last time when I'm trying to somewhat calm everybody down.

The next time when I see someone offending other person it will result a 2 week ban.

How is that offending someone?

It’s just not objective how the guy is evaluated here...

I know it pretty much always turns into Coutinho vs Muller (just like it was James vs Muller) but I think we can all be honest in saying there's not a ton of value in evaluating a player based on a 10-minute cameo. Vast majority of players take that long to just get settled in and have a good feel for the match - there are very, very few who you can reasonably expect to make an immediate game-changing impact in such a short time, it just is what it is. So I don't really call Muller good or bad today, rather would just give a grade of "Incomplete" as I just don't think there's enough to reasonably judge by.

As for Coutinho, again, I try not to approach it as a Muller vs Coutinho thing. Regardless of what Muller did or didn't do, Coutinho simply wasn't very good today, and save for a solid performance against Spurs (which, frankly, is looking less and less impressive with their every passing match - just being honest, they are not who we thought they were) and two good performances against bottom-dwellers - he's just been largely "OK" thus far, unfortunately. Of course, I don't totally put all the blame on him, as he's being coached by a man with the tactical acumen of a shoe, but for the money he needs to be much better (I also think it was dumb to start him today. Clearly fatigued, both from playing lots and from travels)

Asking about "How's someone's cum" is not offending? Like literally - thats imposing on people sucking that someone's dick.

@isiahrashad - I have this guy on ignore, but this member is all over your post and making us look like idiots. Please act.

zozon wrote:Asking about "How's someone's cum" is not offending? Like literally - thats imposing on people sucking that someone's dick.

@isiahrashad - I have this guy on ignore, but this member is all over your post and making us look like idiots. Please act.

No not "us"... And you don’t need me for that...


You’re literally THE most insulting user on here yet YOU demand bans and cry all the time... Weird...

Average I'm assuming to mean per match?

Makes me wonder how that lines up with xA and/or total expected goal contributions in that span. So I looked. It's actually rather interesting. At least in the Bundesliga, they're kinda trending in opposite directions: xG trending down, xA trending up.

Per 90 averages:
14/15 - 0.53 xG, 0.24 xA
15/16 - 0.67 xG, 0.29 xA
16/17 - 0.34 xG, 0.40 xA
17/18 - 0.27 xG, 0.47 xA
18/19 - 0.41 xG, 0.40 xA
19/20 - 0.28 xG, 0.68 xA

Of course I think most would readily say 15/16 was Muller's best season. But what's interesting is that this current season he's only 0.01 xG+xA/90 less than his best season ever (0.97 vs 0.96 per 90).
Of course, admittedly we understand that the smaller sampling size makes this comparison not entirely as useful as it could be, but still interesting nonetheless and not totally worthless.

What we also see (and I've been saying this without any regard to xG/xA, more or less confirms it for me) is that 15/16 was really an anomaly - an exception rather than the rule. I'm not saying Muller hasn't declined in some ways, but I think at the same time many kind of got spoiled by his output in 15/16 and simply expected that to always continue. But what this failed to realize is that this sort of scoring output was NEVER the norm for Muller, so I'm not sure why it caused us to re-frame our expectations so much. Everyone expects Messi to perform well, but once he scored 100 goals in a year, nobody felt like he regressed bigtime when he didn't do so again the next year - because people understood that was an absurd achievement and really was not something one should reasonably expect to be sustained. So - was it reasonable to expect Muller to maintain his 15/16 scoring rate when it was so far outside his career prior rates? I'm not sure it really was. We see now that Muller up until 2014/15 and Muller from 16/17 until now has been largely quite consistent in his numbers, both actual and expected: it's that 15/16 year that's the real outlier here.

Anyways, none of that really proves too much, all more or less just interesting facts to chew on, but hey, I'm bored!
What would also be interesting - probably for another time - is to look beyond just Muller's (or any one player) solo xG/xA tallies and rather look at the team totals for when he (or whoever) does/doesn't play. I think this is kind of the goal of xGchain/xGbuildup (and Muller has generally scored quite well in xGC, FWIW) but I'm not sure that's entirely the story they're designed to tell. Oh well, maybe someday I'll get around to it...