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This bad Kai Havertz pass vs Brighton saw the new Chelsea signing literally pass to nobody on the sideline during their league clash on 14 September, 2020. As it tends to be with the internet, the misplaced Havertz pass against BHAFC quickly became viral, more so given that Chelsea had splashed out big bucks for him. It was also his competitive debut for Chelsea
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Brighton vs Chelsea 2020 (BHAFC-CFC 2020)
Final score and result: Brighton vs Chelsea 1-3 (Trossard/Jorginho pen, James, Zouma)
Amex Stadium- 14 September, 2020- Monday
Chelsea get their campaign up and running with a 3-1 win away at Brighton and Hove Albion
Here is a look at the xG stats for PSG vs Marseille on 13 September, 2020. OM won the game 1-0 thanks to Thauvin’s goal, earning a rare Classique victory and condemning PSG to two opening defeats in a new league season for the first time in 36 years. Paris had plenty of chances and should’ve definitely scored at least once (if not twice), but weren’t able to.
xG PSG 2.22-0.50 Marseille (Actual score PSG 0-1 Marseille)
xG of some big PSG chances vs Marseille
Marco Verratti 2′ miss xG (0.59)
Pablo Sarabia 57′ miss xG (0.45)
Neymar 69′ miss xG (0.68)
The missed chances explain why Neymar and Sarabia and their team mates were rated poorly in the PSG OM paper player ratings.
Marseille had a total xG of 0.50, out of which Thauvin’s match winning goal had a xG of 0.40
Also, check out the full time post match stats (for comparison alongside the xG shots map above)