🧗 A sustainable climb? – This week’s data insights from Blades by Numbers
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Top lines from ‘Blades by Numbers’:
🎯 Set-piece impact — Blades have scored 32% (8) of their 25 goals from set pieces this season.
📦 Final-third presence — Against Norwich, United recorded 42 touches inside the box, the most since the Bristol City opener.
📈 Year-on-year xG improvement — Comparing 24/25 to 25/26 Blades are posting a better xG now than last year… nothing to crow about, but it shows the points should follow.
🦊 Danny Ings’ xG share — After a slew of chances misses v Norwich, Ings now accounts for 9% of the club’s 30.80 xG.
🚀 Full-backs creating — Harrison Burrows and Femi Seriki are rising in expected assists, contributing 11% and 9% of our 23.4 xA total.
🔥 Control of chance quality — United have generated 70%+ of total xG in 5 of the last 6 matches, which is frankly, pretty exceptional.
⚖️ Strongest 0–0 platform — At 0–0 vs Norwich, Blades posted a +0.88 xG difference, the best position of the season at that scoreline.
📉 xG vs reality — We’re still underperforming xG and xGA, but recent matches show meaningful improvement…
😁 We may or may not make the play-offs, but one day soon, Sheffield United Football Club will be outperforming our non-penalty xG.