Nice to see Newcastle hitting form and Forest dropping ahead of “checks notes” playing Liverpool and Arsenal respectively. 
On a different note, how good is Isak? English media keep banging on about how Arsenal need such a player but on this form, he’d easily be a target for the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern if they were looking for strikers.
Not wishing for it to happen or anything like that, but I’m just saying Murillo leaving 1 on Isak wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Tbf, you need different players for different balls.
Wow, I step away to prepare brunch and the match is decided
Commentary finally starting to talk about Gordon’s theatrics…seemingly preparing for him becoming a Liverpool player 
He’s coming home?? 
West Ham hadn’t any form though had they?
“Form” it’s one game… 
This game has been great. Felt like a throw back to the first division days.
Bigger picture- good to see forest salvage a bit of pride with their second half performance that maybe gives them a bit more confidence than they’d otherwise have going into the arsenal game. Also Isak looked a little uncomfortable coming off late
Finally, has CHO finally surpassed Sancho, the player whose shadows he was in for much of his career
yeah, it’s been a good game.
Quite happy watching that. Forest made a fight of it in the end and looked well up for it, they’ve worked hard to get where they are and wont give up a CL spot if they can help it. I think they’ll give it everything against Arsenal on Wednesday.
As for Newcastle they are leaking a lot of goals atm, we’ll get plenty of chances against them but will have to defend better than we have been.
He’s not good enough.
Hilariously that made me look it up, and FBref has him at 4 goals in 26 shots, so 15.4%.
How many people would have thought that he’s actually shooting better than average in our team? Salah is on 18 in 91, which is 19.8%. Whisper it quietly, but Jota is on 5 in 35, which is 14.3%. Díaz is 9 for 49, which is 18.4%, and Gakpo not that different at 8 in 42, which is 19.0%.
Peak Haaland for City was 29 in 116, a flat 25%. Since then he’s been 18-20%. Isak though, with 17 in 66 is running at 25.8%, having been on 16.3% and 22.2% in the past two seasons.
Whisper it even quieter, but in terms of shot conversion rate, Núñez is actually outperforming his past two seasons, which have been 10-11%.
I’m guessing the main reason for the underperformance is the rest of the team, like Szoboszlai’s frankly abysmal 4 goals in 51 shots, or Mac Allister’s 2 in 27, and Alexander-Arnold’s 2 in 33. Mind you, these counts seem to differ from the Premier League stats above, as it has us on 64 goals in 445 shots, which works out to 14.4%.
None of those stats take into account the position of shots, i.e Haaland is mainly a poacher so his shots will be closer to goal and therefore a higher percentage rate.
Or a “goalhanger” as we used to call them.
Yes, that is very true. Whereas Núñez’s shots seem to come from outer space.
Mark wood has a higher percentage of goals to shots taken than halaand.
I somewhat doubt Mark Wood does.
I assume you mean Chris.
Mark is the secret twin brother. Chris rotates him in when he wants to put his feet up and have a breather.
Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but if we win on Wednesday and Arsenal does not, this is pretty much over.
