Expected goals: Premier League and EFL analysis

Football data expert Mike Holden looks at the teams who are overachieving and underachieving so far this season based on the expected goals (xG) stats

Premier League

The big players cost big money, which means the elite leagues operate by their own rules of what's normal. There's nothing unusual about the biggest teams outperforming their xG stats, it simply reflects their quality and depth of resources at both ends of the pitch.

So what you see is what you get at far as the top six goes. There's not much to argue with, unless you think Manchester United have been unlucky.