Rousseau

The xG shows this is correct.

I thought Sima was quite lively.

What are your thoughts, folks?

We're the bigger team.

Because they're lower table teams. They will all finish bottom half. Easy teams. That's why I said above that our xG differential is too tight. If we're just expected to score one more goal than our opponents on average, there will be a lot of instances where we drop points. You do get extremes. I don't think I'm being extreme by suggesting our xG differential is not good enough. Agreed.

Yes, but our opponents have not actually done anything against us - that could be down to us or them, to be fair. But, we've played the easy teams, outwith them. My issue is our xG: We just don't create enough quality chances consistently.

That would be great, but football doesn't work like that. It's too tight to be dependable.

We are, but it's not good. We're only expected to score 1 more goal than our opponents, on average per game. And these - outwith Celtic - are the easy games!

We should have scored 1 more goal. Under-performing. We're conceding pretty much what we are expected to. Over-performimg slightly.

xG 9.04 - 8 goals scored. xGA 2.21 - 2 goals conceded.

After 9 games our accumulated xG is 16.26. We've actually scored 14. We've under-performed. 14 goals after 9 games is not great, is it? Our accumulated xG against is 8.19. We've actually conceded 11. We're conceding more than we were expected to.

The Motherwell manager asked the referee after the game and conceded it was onside.

I don't think they do. It's off or on. I can only recall one instance of VAR coming out and saying they made a mistake with an offside, which was because they focused on the wrong side of the pitch, iirc - or something like that. I only see it as a matter of interpretation in those instances when a player is in the way of a shot.

Because it's not a matter of interpretation.

Not offsides, no.

It is to VAR, which is all that matters... 😏

It was... 👀

I don't think so. There are 6 cameras used in normal VAR use, and even more when it's a live match.

In my case I'd be f*cking mystified, but delighted. I think he's offside. I don't think we can challenge offside calls; it's on or off. It's not like the 'foul' last time out.

We say this every time he does well off the bench late on. Then he starts and he's p*sh because we can't use his pace.

Agreed, but I don't think offsides need to be interpreted; it's off or it's not. He's off.

There were a few big scores - including a maximum! - but overall mostly low scores. Correct Result (1 pt): Everyone who entered (except WB91). Correct Number of Rangers Goals (1pt): SBG, BEAR, BD, Yorkie, Bill, DJ, Mal, CammyF, 26th and Ted. FGS (2 pts): Devil, BD and Onevision. Correct Score (3 pts): BEAR, BD, Yorkie, Mal and Ted. BD gets a maximum! Latest Standings:

Sima has been quite lively.

FGS Roofe