clearing up what the ExpectedGoals stat Means...
the Scorline doesn't tell the Whole story.

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"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

It's an interesting statistic, but can't be used to say 'we deserved to win' or 'on another day that same performance would have won us the game'. The scoreline didn't flatter Huddersfield at all, though we did miss some great chances.

It's the old adage: I'd be worried if we weren't creating chances,
and the fact that Huddersfield's Chances weren't as good suggests that our defense did better than we think...either that or we defended so bad the chances they created would normally be hard, but we made It easy for them!

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Or, in other words, our defending wasn't good enough. Where have we heard that before when trying to change our style of play?

True, but as we all remember from the last few months of Pardew's tenure, you can create chances and score them too - but if you're defensively inept, you won't get any points.

I don't think we should be too worried about scoring enough goals, whatever system we play; it's just defensive organisation that concerns me after Saturday.

We did look dangerous at times, it was one of those days. If Benteke puts that one away at the start of the second half all of a sudden it's game on at 2-1.

In a way, the nature of some of Huddersfield's chances were also slightly positive (maybe a bit OTT, 'less negative' a fairer assessment?). A number of them came from individual mistakes, which is the sort of thing that can be rectified and will get better as we get used to the system.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.