Ipswich Town — Sunderland 2:1

Ipswich Town

2:1

Sunderland

The score says how it ended. xG says how it should have ended: it is the sum of the chances each shot was worth, not an opinion about the game.

Who deserved it

The score matched the game: Ipswich Town was the better side by chances too.

The numbers

Team	Goals	xG	Goals − xG	Expected points
Ipswich Town	2	1.58	+0.4	1.65
Sunderland	1	1.18	−0.2	1.10

Goals

Minute	Goal	Team	Shot xG	Assist
23'	Emersonn	Ipswich Town	0.57	Julio Enciso
38'	Nilson Angulo	Sunderland	0.08
89'	Jack Clarke	Ipswich Town	0.06	Sasa Lukic

Key chances

Minute	Player	Team	xG	Outcome
49'	Daizen Maeda	Ipswich Town	0.62	off target, header
23'	Emersonn	Ipswich Town	0.57	goal
3'	Brian Brobbey	Sunderland	0.50	blocked

Shots: Ipswich Town 10, Sunderland 11; big chances (xG 0.3 and above): 2 and 1.

How the game went

In the first half xG was Ipswich Town 0.75, Sunderland 0.99: about even. In the second half xG was Ipswich Town 0.84, Sunderland 0.20: a small edge for Ipswich Town.

How it fits the season

Ipswich Town: +0.8 for the season (14 in the table). Sunderland: −6.2 (19). The gap between points and xPTS is built from matches like this one.

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