A pattern of this season at Stamford Bridge has been Chelsea not putting away chances that they have made for themselves this season.
Despite the fact that they have been finding the net at a far superior rate to what they were last season, they have still seen massive opportunities go begging in the Premier League.
It doesn’t bare thinking about just how many points higher up the table they would be if they had converted what are relatively easy chances.
There has been one particular outlier for the Blues, with Cole Palmer already in double digits for the season domestically.
However, elsewhere it has been the same old story of players not delivering to what the statistics say they should be.
WhoScored posted a team of the players who are underperforming their xG the worst this season, and Chelsea fans will perhaps not be too surprised to see they are well represented.
Fernandez and Sterling among worst XG underperformers
Raheem Sterling and Enzo Fernandez are both involved, with the pair being in the top six players to have underperformed what the stats say they should have scored.
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It took Fernandez until this season to score his first goal for the club, however he has chipped in with some that have been both crucial and incredible.
Sterling meanwhile has begun to waste his opportunities in the starting side, and is now facing competition from other members of the squad for his place.
Mykhailo Mudryk replaced the England international against Newcastle on Monday night, and scored what proved to be the winning goal in fantastic circumstances.
Considering the Ukraine international has performed well whenever he has played recently, supporters now seem to be of the opinion that it should be a spell on the bench for now for Sterling, who has today not been included in the upcoming England squad.
