{"id":378602,"date":"2025-12-29T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:10:09","slug":"premier-league-live-arteta-and-emery-on-title-race-and-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378602\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League LIVE: Arteta and Emery on title race and transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villa massively overperforming on xGpublished at 14:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>14:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Arsenal v Aston Villa (Tue, 20:15 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f6ea3c69-98f2-4657-9128-35fca1ac6b38.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-1b4qg0x-ContributorLink etflsgg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Villa and their expected goals (xG) in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a topic that has been very popular so far this season and it doesn&#8217;t appear to be showing any signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa are massively overperforming on their xG, to almost surreal levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unai Emery&#8217;s side have scored 29 goals in the Premier League so far and, according to FotMob, have done so from an xG of 19 &#8211; that&#8217;s level with Tottenham Hotspur for the biggest differential in the division. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No team have conceded less from a larger expected goals against (xGA), either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to xGA, Villa should have conceded 25 goals this season but, in reality, they have only conceded 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means Villa have the biggest points swing by some way &#8211; if the table were based on all these fancy stats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should the 25-26 Premier League table be based on xG, Villa would be 16th, 19 points worse off and just two points off the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fortunately for them, it isn&#8217;t. Instead they sit pretty in third, three points off the summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa massively overperforming on xGpublished at 14:12 GMT 14:12 GMT Arsenal v Aston Villa (Tue, 20:15 GMT) Aston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-378602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}