why i dug into west ham vs chelsea stats
honestly, i caught that west ham vs chelsea game live last night. felt like a rollercoaster, you know? woke up today still buzzing about it. figured i should look deeper than just the scoreline. just felt right.
first thing, i fired up my laptop. opened like five different browser tabs for match stats. some sites looked dodgy, others were clunky. kept refreshing one cause it kept timing out. annoying, but whatever. needed the raw numbers. possession, shots, fouls – all that basic stuff.
then i grabbed my notepad – old school, yeah. started jotting down what stood out:
- possession: chelsea had way more ball, like almost 70%. kinda obvious if you watched.
- corners: west ham got loads. felt like they were constantly whipping balls in.
- big one for me: clear-cut chances. neither side seemed super clinical, honestly.
next part sucked: checking if different sites actually agreed. spoiler: they mostly didn’t! one site had west ham with 15 shots, another said 12. which is it? gave up trying to find the “truth” and just averaged them out in my head. messy.
really wanted to see the shot locations. found one heatmap that was kinda blurry. looked like both teams took potshots from outside the box a lot. explained why the goalkeepers weren’t exactly getting ripped apart. frustrating for strikers, i bet.
the tackles and fouls bit jumped out later. game felt scrappy, right? numbers backed that up. yellow cards flying, tackles flying in. saw one stat about fouls committed near the halfway line – tons. just midfield battles all day long. no surprises there after watching.
spent ages staring at the passing accuracy numbers. chelsea’s looked slicker overall, makes sense with more ball. but west ham? their passes in the final third seemed kinda… hopeful? long balls, crosses. less precise. stats showed lower accuracy there. matched what my eyes saw.
end of it, felt drained. compiled my scribbles into some semi-coherent notes. main takeaway? stats kinda told the story everyone saw. chelsea controlled it but couldn’t unlock them enough. west Ham dug in, defended like crazy, took their few chances. numbers just confirmed the scrap was real.