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Martial was way under xG, Rashford was above :
Yeah the only possible explanation is our strikers are actually better finishers than what the caf believes.Martial did underperform his xG and he lost most of what made him good in 19/20. Rashford had good output last season and most of the complaints were regarding his workrate and decision making.
We scored last season a lot of low percentage goals, those earned us a lot of points which is basically one of the main reasons we got second.
How good were we really at creating if we were 5th behind Leeds in npXG?
For the "we don't create a lot" I agree it's not true to say we create a lot. But saying our strikers since Lukaku have been starving for chances is not true at all.
Anyway, I had some free time and this seems interesting so I had a few looks into the G-xG.
Last season:
Spurs: +11.5
United: +9.8
City: +8.7
Liverpool: -7.6
Chelsea: -8.0
This season so far:
Spurs: -5.3 (Kane turned shit I guess)
United: +2.6
City: +1.6
Liverpool: +2.0
Chelsea: +4.6
The ability to finish chances of Chelsea and Liverpool strikers has vastly improved while both United and City have regressed. But still doing ok imo.
I also had a look at the forwards who regularly start for us this season.
Bruno: +1.4
Greenwood: +0.9
Rashford: +0.8
Sancho: -0.1
Ronaldo: -0.7
Turned out Ronaldo is not really such a good finisher as he's supposed to I think.