I certainly agree with the Gary Player maxim 'The more I practise, the luckier I get', but where we benefited from some dodgy goalkeeping against Fulham, the second goal against Villa just wouldn't come, other days you get results like the opening day win v QPR where everything seems to go in.
The top level goal attempt stats are almost an exact reversal of the Fulham match with one side having far more attempts than the other but actual attempts on target being pretty similar:
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Attempts by Team, Swansea had 10 attempts in first 30 min then only 1 in rest of half |
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Along with Chris Herd winning 7/9 duels, Villa had by far the best of the Aerial battle |
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Aerial Duels by half, Graham won 1 of 9 duels and Chico 1/7 |
Having said all that, when looking at the outcomes of goalkeeper passing you can see a huge difference in the Blue/Red split (Success/Fail) between the teams:
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All passes (including goal kicks) by keeper, majority of Guzan's passes into the opposition half find a team mate |
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Pablo made almost double the number of final third passes of any other player and also created the most chances (4) with the next highest players creating 2 |
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