According to the expected goals, the Giallorossi and Rossoneri should have conceded 13.5 and 14.7 goals respectively, but instead they conceded only 6 and 9: in this football of continuous innovations, sometimes it would be better to go back to the old…
Apart from Renato Pozzetto’s famous shop which sold heels, dice and dates, once upon a time, if you were missing something, you knew where to go to buy it. The sign didn’t lie. If you had your mother send you to get milk: dairy. Then the ‘Not Only’ trend broke out and the sign-product correspondence became confusing. ‘Not just carpets’. So? What should I expect? Chandeliers, bicycles, satellite dishes? One fine day Guardiola hung a sign on his goalkeeper’s door: ‘Not just saves’. Also throws, construction from the bottom, closures from libero… He asked Bayern Munich for permission to deploy Neuer in midfield. Pep himself then restored order to the shop, calling Donnarumma to City, after he was kicked out of Paris because he used his feet badly. He has fixed a new sign on Gigio’s door: ‘Here we stop’.
the Svilar and Maignan cases
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The same one that stands out on the doors of Svilar and Maignan, the best, not surprisingly at the top of the championship. It’s true that the Frenchman has a 10-point throw, but he scores with his hands, which are once again the main tools of the trade. According to the expected goals, Svilar and Maignan should have conceded 13.5 and 14.7 goals respectively, but instead they conceded only 6 and 9. The difference is their treasure. Looking at the unlikely full-back Koopmeiners and the many false 9s, one doubts whether the workshops of the other roles should also be tidied up. In this kick of heels, dice and dates, the lesson of Paron Rocco must be recovered: “A perfect team must have a goalkeeper who saves everything, an assassin in defense, a genius in midfield, a ‘mona’ who scores and seven donkeys who run”.
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