Gameweek 8, Day 1 & 2, Key Notes:

⏱️ Newcastle 1 – 1 Bournemouth

⚙️ xG: 1.75 – 0.78

🚀 Shots (SoT): 20 (7) – 10 (3)

📜 Notes:

• Newcastle have scored six goals from an xG of 10.20 in their 4 home games this season. Underperforming!

• Alexander Isak bagged his second goal for Newcastle. He fired 3 shots, 3 SoT, converted his penalty. Isak had the highest xG for the day (0.95) albeit mostly due to the penalty he scored which had an xG of 0.7. His non pen xG was just 0.25!

⏱️ Wolves 0 – 3 Man City

⚙️ xG: 0.41 – 1.07

🚀 Shots (SoT) 6 (1) – 16 (7)

📜 Notes:

• KDB created 4 chances including 1 Big Chance and provided an Assist. He is now top for Chances Created (25), Big Chances Created ( 8) and Assists (6) for the season.

• Erling Haaland has either scored or assisted in every game till now. He has scored 11 goals in 8 games. Can he beat the all time PL record of 34 goals in a single season?

⏱️ Spurs 6 – 2 Leicester

⚙️ xG: 2.16 – 1.66

🚀 Shots (SoT): 16 (11) – 19 (7)

📜 Notes:

• Leicester have now conceded 22 goals in 7 games this season – more than any team has ever conceded after 7 games into the season.

• James Maddison fired 7 shots (most), 3 SoT and created 4 chances against Spurs. His goal means he has been directly involved in 16 goals in 2022 (10 Goals, 6 Assists) and 24 goals since the start of last season (15 Goals, 9 Assists). Still not enough for Southgate to include him in England squad!

• Harry Kane extended his tally of averaging 9 points per game against Leicester with a goal and an assist. He now has 23 attacking returns from 15 games against the Foxes.

• Heung-Min Son scored his 13 minute hat-trick with an xG of just 0.67. He fired 4 shots, all on target and bagged all 3 bonus points with just 31 minutes of game time.

⏱️ Villa 1 – 0 Southampton ⚙️ xG: 0.92 – 0.34 🚀 Shots (SoT): 11 (3) – 7 (1) 📜 Notes: • Aston Villa managed to keep their 1st clean sheet of the season, thanks to a poor performance from Southampton who could muster a combined xG of 0.34 with just 1 shot on target. • • • Southampton are one of the only two teams who are yet to keep a clean sheet this season.

⏱️ Forest 2 – 3 Fulham ⚙️ xG: 1.41 – 0.94 🚀 Shots (SoT) 11 (3) – 15 (7) 📜 Notes: • Nottingham Forest have conceded 3+ goals in 3 consecutive matches conceding 12 goals in that period. They have yielded most shots (118), most shots on target (48) and have the poorest xGC (14.7) in the league so far. • This was only the second time this season that Mitrovic blanked. • Pereira lost some of his set-pieces to Willian who assisted Fulham’s first goal from a corner

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