Statistics Reveal How We Might Beat Brentford

[AnagRam]

Hey thanks Ella...still early here, that's my excuse :-?
Love the idea of us being 'Languidly Clinical' in attack and 'Dominant' in defence, could really go for that.
I know 'Constant Threat' is better but 'Languidly Clinical' just sounds so cool and refined...bit like your good self.

Can hear it now, pouring out of the South Stand...COYLC's

[AngryRam]

Hey thanks Ella...still early here, that's my excuse :-?
Love the idea of us being 'Languidly Clinical' in attack and 'Dominant' in defence, could really go for that.

Can hear it now...COYLC's

To be fair you do quite often hear that we need to be more languidly clinical where I sit... It's quite a common phrase.

[AnagRam]

Think it was Mark Twain who first referred to 'lies, damned lies and statistics' so I know what you mean, Angry, but don't all statistics have to be 'retrospective'?

[swaledale]

Funny how the use of stats hasn't seemed to ahve worked at brentford to date!

Interesting info Ella, we ought to beat Brentford on paper but football isn't played on paper! Still we ought to be on for giving a team a good thrashing soon.

[Manofpride]

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The very excellent Experimental 3-6-1 site is starting to aggregate the attacking and defending statistics from this year's Championship games. The above charts are based on matches up until 13th September and whilst it's still early-doors, we can start to see discernible patterns in the data {If you don't think statistics tell you much about football then stop at this point...this post isn't for you}.

To summarise, the above charts are based on data from every game that each team has played in the league so far. They plot things like how many shots each team has taken to score a goal {ie a ratio of shots taken to goals scored and hence "shot" quality} and similarly a ratio of shots faced to goals conceded {and hence a "defending" quality}. Now, i