It could also have spelled disaster for them in most other seasons when competition at the bottom of the table is tougher. This season, 30 points will most likely be enough to stay up because there’s 3-4 teams which aren’t PL-ready and completely outmatched.

Him making this list in spite of spending almost his entire career at a B-tier top team is impressive. Put him at prime Barca or City and his numbers would be even higher.

All 3 of MSN were in their prime at the time, while Messi and Neymar were already past their prime when they played together with Mbappé at PSG. And 2015 Barca had a much better midfield than 2022 PSG.

I think he meant it’s surprising that Kane isn’t higher up that list.

Same. Messi at PSG still feels like a fever dream.

The memes would be endless if Bayern miss out on the championship for the first time in 11 years as soon as Kane plays for them.

By 1.42 points, which is perfectly normal. Like I said, top clubs typically overperform their xPoints by a bit. Leverkusen, by contrast, is overperforming by a whooping 7.72 points according to understat.

For totally unselfish reasons, I think this is a great idea and Real should sign Grimaldo next summer to fix their LB position.

Top clubs typically overperform their xG and xGa (and thus their xPts) by quite a bit because they have the best strikers and keepers. So what Leverkusen is doing is actually in line with the quality of their squad, it’s Bayern which is actually underperforming due to defensive lapses in key moments. This notion is also confirmed by Bayern’s fantastic GD.

They are far and away a top2 team so far if we go by actual performances, and they’re already 8/10 points ahead of Leipzig/Dortmund.

sadest backflip
sadest 10-1 win

Lewandowski was the consensus winner of the 2020 ballon d’or if it wasn’t cancelled.