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Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\nAston Villa and their expected goals (xG) in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
It’s a topic that has been very popular so far this season and it doesn’t appear to be showing any signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n
Villa are massively overperforming on their xG, to almost surreal levels.<\/p>\n
Unai Emery’s side have scored 29 goals in the Premier League so far and, according to FotMob, have done so from an xG of 19 – that’s level with Tottenham Hotspur for the biggest differential in the division. <\/p>\n
No team have conceded less from a larger expected goals against (xGA), either.<\/p>\n
According to xGA, Villa should have conceded 25 goals this season but, in reality, they have only conceded 19.<\/p>\n
That means Villa have the biggest points swing by some way – if the table were based on all these fancy stats.<\/p>\n
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
Fortunately for them, it isn’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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-375491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}