Well, my friends, it would seem the xG warriors and the underlying performance pirates are on the rampage, pillaging old tweets of folk who went far too aggressively against the team in December.

Arsenal comfortably with the best attack in the league by npxG since jesus came back from injury late november. 21.03 npxG, liverpool in second with 17.86 npxG. Lazy narratives gonna narrative.
? Seewrap (@craptor) January 22, 2024

With a shot chaser from Scott Willis.

Since Jesus came back from his last knee injury Arsenal have 2.2 non-pen xG (best) and are +1.28 in non-pen difference (best) https://t.co/R7pEJbyLbG
? Scott Willis (@scottjwillis) January 22, 2024

… and hot dang, I’m feeling frisky. Gabriel Jesus might only have 3 Premier League goals this season, but his impact on the team from an xG perspective is a sight to behold. I know people find these performance metrics boring, but to have a better output than Liverpool, the league’s xG monsters, is surprising to me. Here’s what we don’t know about these numbers. Is the correction in performance against Crystal Palace a sign of things to come" Or will we revert to creating loads of nice chances but no one to finish them"
This is the faith part of xG. You either believe we’ll start scoring more goals than xG like last season or you don’t. I think we have a 5th gear to hit over the next 2 months and Palace was the start of something special. So we’ll see where thi...