How can midfielders influence the xG of their team's shots? How can xG be used to evaluate set-piece efficiency?

Feb 15, 2023 ... Football analytics maestro & friend of the podcast Kasper Pedersbæk returns to write about what we can learn from the Superliga teams' xG ... Feb 10, 2023 ... Why Is XG Important and How Is It Influencing the Modern Game? Over the course of a season, a team may not be scoring many goals but still has a ... Expected Goals (xG for short) is the advanced metric which measures the quality of a chance by calculating the likelihood that it will be scored from a ... Oct 13, 2024 ... Goal! 1:2. Ilie Sánchez (Los Angeles Football Club) scored with right footed shot from the central position outside the box with an xG of ... Dec 21, 2018 ... On Wednesday, I published an article that detailed the most unlikely scorelines in European football over the last 5 years, inspired by the ... Apr 25, 2022 ... ... xG) are the best-known metric in football analytics. They measure the quality of a chance created. When we say that a shot had an xG of 0.2 ... Apr 11, 2021 ... Dipping my toes in football analytics as a 20 year old Economics undergraduate meant I had no access or understanding to the tools and ... Apr 8, 2020 ... The xG metric might seem snooty at first, but football fans have been inadvertently collecting their own data sets since they first saw a ... Nov 28, 2023 ... In this regard, xG, which is defined as the probability of a shot resulting in a goal, has become one of football's primary measures of player ... Apr 10, 2025 ... A player has a shot at goal from the penalty box that is rated as having an xG rating of 0.20. That means that the xG has determined that there ...