Man Utd should not obsess over City, Son’s xG cheat, and feeling happy for Nunez

United might be better emulating Arsenal or Villa, Son brings some calm at Spurs, and Nunez shows his class

Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during the season, The Athletic discusses three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s football. This week, ’s owner embarked on some complaints of his own after ’s late winner at the City ground, and drew rather limply again.

If things continue like this, he could feasibly surpass his best goalscoring season of 2021-22, when he scored 23 league goals. But you’re all intelligent readers, so let’s move on to some slightly more advanced numbers and point out that Son is an expected goals cheat code, a forward who consistently scores more goals than the metrics suggest he should.

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