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5 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

 

Well played Max O’Leary, he made two world-class saves.

We worked our socks-off all over the pitch to pick up a great three points, against a very good Sunderland team.

Character, commitment, bravery and hard work, well played!

Indeed.  Worry that they won so many headers in our box.  Defending set pieces has been a strength which seems to be slipping somewhat.

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18 shots, half of which were on target...but not one of Sunderland's shots were inside the 6 yard box and all those shots came to a paltry xG total of only 0.74 (early numbers).

So he was busy, very busy even, but none of those shots were actually particularly dangerous.

Still did his job well though. A good day at the office.

7 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

Outstanding performance. People will remember the saves but did well from many crosses too.

This is a good point as well. He managed the box well today.

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1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

18 shots, half of which were on target...but not one of Sunderland's shots were inside the 6 yard box and all those shots came to a paltry xG total of only 0.74 (early numbers).

So he was busy, very busy even, but none of those shots were actually particularly dangerous.

Still did his job well though. A good day at the office.

This is a good point as well. He managed the box well today.

Not dangerous? The first header was right out of the top drawer. The second I grant you would have been disappointing to concede albeit still a good save.

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25 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Good enough for this level despite what a lot of people think

He has always had games like this in his locker (e.g Brentford away in 2018), it's just performing like that on a more consistent basis.

Take nothing away from the guy today, he was on a one-man mission and was bloody brilliant, huge from a local lad.

Just now, devoncider said:

He has always had games like this in his locker (e.g Brentford away in 2018), it's just performing like that on a more consistent basis.

Take nothing away from the guy today, he was on a one-man mission and was bloody brilliant, huge from a local lad.

and villa in 2019 - another amazing solo effort

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3 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

First mistake was in the 93rd minute when his kick out was rubbish, to be fair after the forearm smash 30 seconds earlier he was probably concussed.

Outstanding & so were all the back four in front of him.

Big win.

Definitely big win when you think the way we defended against a team who haven’t a goal scorer,COYR

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Max did well today and deserves the plaudits that come his way. We know he is inclined to the odd midstaje and his distribution could be better but that is why he's playing in the Championship and not the PL. City don't get overrun every week and he rarely has a disaster of a game. He may not be the best but he is of Championship standard. I think some have a vastly inflated opinion of what the performance level of a Championship goalkeeper is. 

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24 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

18 shots, half of which were on target...but not one of Sunderland's shots were inside the 6 yard box and all those shots came to a paltry xG total of only 0.74 (early numbers).

So he was busy, very busy even, but none of those shots were actually particularly dangerous.

Still did his job well though. A good day at the office.

This is a good point as well. He managed the box well today.

You're using xG wrong. You can't use it to say the shots weren't dangerous, that's not how it works.

You can say the chances weren't good, but it tells you nothing about the individual shots on the day. What was TGHs xG the other day? Was it a dangerous shot?

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2 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

You're using xG wrong. You can't use it to say the shots weren't dangerous, that's not how it works.

You can say the chances weren't good, but it tells you nothing about the individual shots on the day. What was TGHs xG the other day? Was it a dangerous shot?

The post-shot-xG will be high on some of them, because they were right in the corner.

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29 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

18 shots, half of which were on target...but not one of Sunderland's shots were inside the 6 yard box and all those shots came to a paltry xG total of only 0.74 (early numbers).

So he was busy, very busy even, but none of those shots were actually particularly dangerous.

Still did his job well though. A good day at the office.

This is a good point as well. He managed the box well today.

If a shot is going in the top corner the xg chance it came from is irrelevant.  

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5 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

You're using xG wrong. You can't use it to say the shots weren't dangerous, that's not how it works.

You can say the chances weren't good, but it tells you nothing about the individual shots on the day. What was TGHs xG the other day? Was it a dangerous shot?

Absolutely.  

Just now, sinenomine said:

And also eyes

Completely agree.

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