finishing 2020/21 (behind closed doors edition)

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Enjoyed the finishing today!

[bigblue]

City have scored 5+ goals in a PL match for the tenth time since the start of last season - twice that of any other club.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Just read that since last time united scored 5 in a domestic game we’ve done it 27 times. Is it any wonder I mock this thread every week.

[Bluemoon4610]

[City64]

[Nigels Tackle]

we score goals. loads of them. but we should score more. like i will keep repeating, it’s not about the games we win easily, where the score line looks fantastic but the tight games and we need to be fucking ruthless in every game if we are to win those.
pep says this on a regular basis - even after we’ve scored five or six. so keep on laughing at him at don’t be fucked off when we lose a game we should win because we have fluffed our chances.

[zuricity]

it can't be easy being a PITA .

[Nigels Tackle]

[Beefymcfc]

[bigblue]

[PrezIke]

If only we could score, what a team we'd be, eh?

[PrezIke]

https://understat.com/team/Manchester_City/2018

Some useful stats to see how we are doing, as I love this site.

Interestingly enough, our xG was higher in the Burnley match than against Southampton.

Kun the leader for the team in xG and goals, yet his scoring rate is lower than it should be, while Raz with the a higher goals to xG rate.

Not surprisingly Jesus with the highest xG and lowest conversion rate. Bernardo 2nd worst, and Mahrez 3rd (gathering it's gotten better as of late).

As for xA (assists expected to create goals) Merlin #1, while Razza tied with Mendy for our best in assist total (Mendy seemed up top months ago) yet Silva's actual total is quite low for what it should be.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

[john@staustell]

It can be argued that with an out and out finisher - a la Gerd Muller, Lineker etc, we'd score a lot more. But you have to remember that those players would never get in a Pep team in 10 million years. Maybe Shearer or Wrighty would have the right dynamic?

[City64]

[johnny crossan]

[john@staustell]

[london blue 2]

[Nigels Tackle]

with the derby coming up this sunday, can someone please remind me why we didn’t seal the league title vs them last season?

[johnny crossan]