Who are you referring to as a dud? Youâve lost me.
Only so far you can go with British and Irish cloggers. Plenty of shite teams in it though, they could stay up
Difficult for Sean Dyche to confound the odds year in year out on one of he smallest budgets in the league. Next three games, Burnley have Bournemouth at home, Huddersfield and Cardiff.
The Hammers go 1 up. Balbuena centre half for them looks very good
I read somewhere (either in my apartment, in work or at the bar in the 51) that Burnleyâs 2017/18 season was a statistical anomaly, and that they narrowly won a lot of games where they lost on xG. In some cases they were routed on xG but scraped a 1-goal win or a draw. This season they may be reverting/regressing to the mean (cc @The_Runt), but I donât have the data to hand.
The key statistic about Burnley 2017/18 is that Sean Dyche presided over survival in the top flight for the second successive season,
the club having previously failed to do so in 42 years. A 7th place finish last season, highest in 44 years.
Declan Rice has started well
Absolute beauty by Yarmolenko
Sweet finish alrightâŚEverton all over the shop
So much better from West Ham. Theyâre chasing, hasselling, rushing Everton into making mistakes. Night and day difference between what weâve seen so far this season. Helped that only 4 of the squad were away or made themselves available during the recent international break.
Rice is having a great day 
I believe it was mentioned ad nauseum last season on the Guardians Football Weekly
How is xG calculated?
Everton get one back on the stroke of half time. Good game
Great headderâŚ
Burnley were promoted in 16, the 16/17 season was the one Dyche presided over survival in the top flight for the first time since their relegation in 76. In typically British fashion he seems to have underestimated the importance of them staying in Europe and will pay the price in the coming spring.
The expected goals a team would expect to score from the positions where theyâve taken their shots from in a specific match based on past evidence. Thatâs my understanding of it anyway. Its not a perfect system but over a period of time can tell you if a team is getting lucky or if their results are sustainable as it did with Burnley last season and I think the same was said when Martin O Neill took over Sunderland and they had good results for a while before regressing to the mean
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Informative. Thank you