anythinggoes

Soft effectiveness as well as real in game effectiveness

I think it's assistant manager season

Assistant managers are having a bit of a spotlight moment

There's a remarkable something to be said about the work of Ljinders and Heinze

Remarkable in the literal sense - something of note

They have had a major influence on the way their teams play, the way their managers attempt to win

India is the perfect place for AI generated misinformation. Well believe anything 🙏🏽

Gets people to click**

Slightly different topic but the efficiency of capitalism here should be -

Optimize on the content people want to see

Instead it's - optimize on content that gets being to click

They aren't the same thing

If you want real discussion, real back and forth, HONEST narratives, money can't be part of the equation

You can't have a system where there's money in clicks and engagement and expect people to be real

Also if you're honest, right or wrong isn't something that matters rlly

I didn't really watch the football too closely this weekend, so I was kind of on the outside looking in on twitter and the narratives

It's all so reactive man

Thing happens --> okay now that this thing is best, this player is best, this is the future, i told you so

Next week on to the next

MAN FK we could have should have would have taken all 3 points yesterday

^ looks great to perform in the PL

Anyway, they broke my heart yesterday, hope they go down

And it has a better chance to go in than xG says. It's something

Every action is like say 15% better than a 'normal' action

It's something, it adds up

Cool to see if it helps them stay up. Their players are quality too, that's the base. Spent a lot

But solid defensively, INTENSE, set pieces

intensely, he's automatically going to play better. He's in the zone, he's locked in. He's completely in that moment, to his max ability

That's something. That's what breaks xG

A player feeling himself, running hard doesn't give a fk if it's a 0.3 xg chance. He's gna hit it hard and true

Thinking of Sunderland

They're so intense, it forces smaller things to go their way more often than their skills/ abilities allow

But okay fine, that's already included in your expected goal difference

But,

I saw the clip recently of Bielsa, when a player is running freely,

There's some amount of negative xG-xGA you can get by with pure intensity

Obviously it has to be intensity within a solid plan

^is this true? Or will it always catch up with you?

Feeling a bit sad

God damn man. Rlly tough game, but we should have won that regardless

Raya had to either collect or stay on his line. Heavy man, that was a tough game

I've not rlly been watching properly tbf but this has been an incredible second half. Made it look so easy

A mistake from them in the press does help

🥶🥶🥶🥶 what a finish

Declan Rice man, incredible. Don't give him the opportunity to take it from you

Early goooooal, HUGE

I like watching us attack from this angle more. I don't know why

Big 45 mins coming up. Think we have the win in us, just need to be a bit more forceful and make a little bit of luck go our way

They're going to get tired, make mistakes

Fuckkkk man, tough game gets even tougher

Away days like this, the physicality, the intensity, the aggression is why Arteta has built the type of team he's built

Good timing for that injury ("injury"), killed their intensity/ momentum of intensity

These guys are so intense man. How long can they keep it up

Timber can turn on the ball so quickly, so immediately. Why he's so tough to win the ball from

Amazing crowd here. I know Xhaka will be loving it

Need to fake a couple injuries against Sunderland - Rice, Saka cause we know England are gna juice them out

We only use set pieces as a tool. It's what happens in so many of our games

Teams defend deep - we try to make something happen - there are so many bodies in the way - it goes out for a corner

We try and score the corner

If you want to make games more fun, the problem is not scoring from corners

CWC teams keep getting injuries. Just give the players summers off man