xG Manchester United Sevilla Europa League 2020 Semi Final | Expected Goals Stats Man Utd 2.47-1.26 Sev

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Here is a look at the xG statistics from the Man Utd v Sevilla Europa League semi-final on 16 August 2020. A game that Manchester United dominated in terms of chances created (they had 20 shots), but lost on the scoreboard.

xG Man Utd 2.47-1.26 Sevilla (Actual score Man Utd 1 Sevilla 2)

xg Sevilla Manchester United 2020 Europa League

This xG model includes the Bruno penalty, but even without the spot kick, you can see that MUFC created plenty on the shot map for the game, but Sevilla were clinical.

xG of individual goals

1-0 Man Utd goal Bruno Fernandes Penalty 9 (xG 0.77)
1-1 Sevilla goal Suso 26 (xG 0.28)
1-2 Sevilla goal Luuk de Jong 78 (xG 0.68)

xG of some other notable missed chances for MU in this semi-final:

Anthony Martial 53′ (xG 0.35), Anthony Martial 50′ (xG 0.32)

Second xG model (from Stats Bomb data- Man Utd 2.7-0.9 Sevilla)

xG models can vary, but here is another one, courtesy SB. Again, the story is similar, United dominate in terms of xG, but don’t win.

xG of individual Man Utd players v Sevilla in this model

Anthony Martial xG: 0.6 (from 3 shots)
Marcus Rashford xG: 0.5 (from 4 shots)
Bruno Fernandes xG: 1.1 (excluding penalty 0.3)
Mason Greenwood xG: 0.3 (from 4 shots)
Harry Maguire xG: 0.1
Fred xG: 0.1

Total: 2.7 (excluding penalty 1.9)

xG of some Sevilla players vs Man Utd in the second model

Luuk de Jong xG: 0.4
Suso xG: 0.2
Lucas Ocampos xG: 0.1
Joan Jordan xG: 0.1

Total team xG: 0.9

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