Holte139
Vital Squad Member
While I was in a turkey, chocolate and birthday cake-fuelled haze last night, I decided to look at some stats on soccerstats.com to see how we were doing. In the threads I've been reading, there seems to be the full range of opinions on here. Either people are optimistic, about where they expected us to be, or feeling pessimistic about the road ahead. I've taken screenshots of 3 things I found interesting.
OK, so these things might be influenced by the fact we've played one more game at home and beat Norwich 5-1 at their place, but this confirms what we all knew to some extent. We aren't quite scoring enough goals, and away from home at least, we're conceding far too many, although we're keeping a relatively tight ship at home for a newly promoted side. I imagine that before the Leicester and Southampton games the goals conceded at home stat might have looked quite impressive.
Of course, the exact positions of this could change because of the game later tonight, but, as the table currently stands, these are the positions of the teams we've played, and what we've got to come. Our record against the bottom half teams isn't too shabby, but against the top half it's very poor. Most of the teams around us we now have to play away, and we have to bring most of the top half back to Villa Park. There's a crumb of comfort in that IMO, as most of those sides are better at home than they are away.
Lastly, here's a comparison of how we're doing now compared to 19 games in the Prem since 2010. To me, it looks like we're at a similar level to the teams that managed to stay up narrowly, but I think there's a bit more cause for optimism this time given the ownership/financial situation now.
Hopefully these 3 things are interesting to look at, I thought they might make for some good topics of debate!
OK, so these things might be influenced by the fact we've played one more game at home and beat Norwich 5-1 at their place, but this confirms what we all knew to some extent. We aren't quite scoring enough goals, and away from home at least, we're conceding far too many, although we're keeping a relatively tight ship at home for a newly promoted side. I imagine that before the Leicester and Southampton games the goals conceded at home stat might have looked quite impressive.
Of course, the exact positions of this could change because of the game later tonight, but, as the table currently stands, these are the positions of the teams we've played, and what we've got to come. Our record against the bottom half teams isn't too shabby, but against the top half it's very poor. Most of the teams around us we now have to play away, and we have to bring most of the top half back to Villa Park. There's a crumb of comfort in that IMO, as most of those sides are better at home than they are away.
Lastly, here's a comparison of how we're doing now compared to 19 games in the Prem since 2010. To me, it looks like we're at a similar level to the teams that managed to stay up narrowly, but I think there's a bit more cause for optimism this time given the ownership/financial situation now.
Hopefully these 3 things are interesting to look at, I thought they might make for some good topics of debate!
. There's an interesting report on our 19th match of that season here:
