Out of the three of us, Arsenal were the only team to get a higher Xg than PSG, out performing them by 4.53 to 2.9. That is quite significant. Villa’s negative 2.79 to 3.64 isn’t too bad, but ...

To see how this works we then looked back after the last three seasons. In these tables we have the usual end-of-season table, followed by the column showing where these clubs were after seven games, ...

But there is a second point: we have most of these players in my list already on the boos. And that is a benefit because many newly transferred players take a while to settle in, (one might recall ...