Marseille

This Di Maria vs Alvaro spitting incident (VIDEO BELOW) could see Paris SG’s Argentine star land in hot water after footage emerged of him spitting at Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez in their Classique game over the weekend. Di Maria had just recovered from Covid, and with the world still grappling with the pandemic, this might earn him a lengthy ban

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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)

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