Chelsea & The Race For Europe: The Trends
5/13/202638 min
Examining football’s underlying numbers, looking back at the Chelsea match and taking a look at the teams competing for the European spots.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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Neil Atkinson· Host0:04
Neil Atkinson with Josh Williams, and we are here with our friends at Saily. Delighted to be with our friends at Saily. It's an excellent product, uh, one that we very much do endorse gladly at The Anfield Wrap. I've used it myself on more than one occasion. What happens is you download the app, and then from there you work out what your package is when you know where you're going away. And then when it comes to paying for that package and put a code in, put the code TAW, you get 15% off. In any case, even if you didn't get 15% off, it'd be a massive saving for you, and it'd make things really, really, really convenient while you are abroad. So wherever it is you're gonna go at any time of year from this point onwards, get on Saily, go from there. Get every... get other people on it as well, uh, so that you can make sure you can talk to each other when you need to when you're away. It's good to stay in touch. Um, all right. We are very, very pleased to be, uh, with Saily. We're less pleased to have to talk about what was a frankly awful football match. It's Neil Atkinson with Josh Williams. The cumulative xG of the two sides combined, uh, is one point zero two. Nought point six seven to Liverpool, nought point three five to Chelsea. There was 14 shots across the game, uh, six of them called the goalkeepers into action. Um, I'm gonna go on with the metrics, Josh, but these really were not two good football teams that faced one another at Anfield.
Josh Williams· Guest1:13
No, no, I think we saw that play out. I didn't enjoy it at all. Um, I was actually quite concerned when I left the ground as well. Sometimes I think it can be put down to certain little voids in the team or whatever. I've been high on that all season, but in this one, Liverpool in particular looked just poorly coached