Chelsea You are currently sitting fourth in Premier league Despite the heavy discourse around its current situation, the injuries, mistakes in the defense unit, begin to give up light goals and lack of goals scored at the other end.
Enzo Maresca Side is one of the ten teams in the Premier League that weighs your expected goals, generating 48.6 xg so far this season in the first 24 gamesBut scoring only 46 goals, which means that they weaken their xg for 2.6.
If it wasn’t for their star, who had This season made 24 Premier League appearancesscoring 14 goals and scoring six assists, the Blues would be much beyond four and had much worse basic numbers in the XG section.
As Cole Palmer saves Chelsea again
Cole Palmer was signed for Chelsea in the Summer Window for Transfer 2023, for what is now seemed to be a peaceful fee of £ 40 million plus £ 2.5 million in accessories.
Since his arrival, the 22-year-old has crossed the Manchester City Academy guy who sought for a few minutes to the great Premier League, winning Pfa young player of the year and English player of the year 2024.
The English International passed the meteoric rise, scoring 39 goals and providing 21 assists in his 72 appearances in Chelsea so farAnd he also established himself as a senior international for his country, reaching in the Euro 2024 final in a 2-1 defeat against Spain.
From Chelsea’s 48.6 xg, Cole Palmer has I generated 12.3 xg In the Premier League this season, scoring 14 goals and exceeds his XG for +1.7. Palmer also created 8.2 expected assisted goals (XAG)Which means that over 20 Chelsea’s XG performs in one way or another in one way or another.
Nicolas Jackson, on the other hand, has so far generated 11.4 xg in the Premier League in this campaign, weakening its XG for -2.4.
As stated, things could have been very different that Chelsea was signed by Frank Lampard’s chief striker in his first borrowing rule.
The one who escaped
Transfers that almost happened but never. This article is part of the football fakasta that received the series.
When Erling Haaland almost became blue
Lampard made it clear that she was “push“For Erling Haaland in his first rule at the club, before Norwegian International left RB Salzburg in Borussia Dortmund, which paid a provision of € 22.5 million (£ 18.75).
“People talk a lot about mistakes or things that could be in football. [Haaland] I would come here, I don’t know, but then I pushed the big ones on several other players, but he was extraordinary. Was it close? They will only find out the answer to that. Which phase did he arrive at? From our point, I must have pushed him. “
Fast forward by 2025 and it’s pretty obvious to see why they needed to go over the line. Really, The Haaland is a transfermarkt appreciated to a whopping £ 167mwhich is even more than the Palmer mentioned above, despite his blinding representations, with the English International Is currently estimated at £ 108 million.
When you compare Haaland’s basic metric with Palmer this season – of course playing in different positions – you can see the XG value of the performance Haaland brings to its side, generating 0.77 xg by 90 in the Premier League and scoring 0.20 goals per goal; amazing levels.
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Erling Haaland vs Cole Palmer Comparison |
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Statistics (90 min) |
Haaland |
Palmer |
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Goals |
0.81 |
0.60 |
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Helping |
0.08 |
0.26 |
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xg |
0.77 |
0.53 |
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XAG |
0.09 |
0.35 |
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Progressive carries |
0.68 |
3.43 |
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Progressive passage |
0.64 |
5.97 |
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Records in total |
3.81 |
3.52 |
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Goals/Shots |
0.20 |
0.13 |
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Key passes |
0.93 |
2.75 |
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Actions of cracking |
2.37 |
5.88 |
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Air duels beat |
1.74 |
0.00 |
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Statistics taken from Fref |
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Described As a “monster” and “beast” From former striker Bayern and Germany Mario Gomez, he has earned Rave criticism for his simply sensational levels of performance from moving to the city.
Already breaking countless scoring records Moderation 82 goals in 90 Premier League appearances And if he remains on the duration of his new 10 -year contract, he is likely to break Alan Shearer.
If Lampard had his own way, Haaland would currently be in Chelsea, and the Palmer and Norwegian partnership would probably be one of the best in the Premier League, mixing XG creation and clinical ending, putting teams in bed with one two combinations easily.
