Not The Top Table (23 December 2025)

Dec 23, 2025

Out of office: Not The Top Table will be on annual leave over the festive period and returning in the New Year — bigger and better.

Who’s doing what in the xG form tables?

Ipswich are hitting their stride at last: over the last 10 fixtures, they’ve conceded far fewer chances than the rest of the Championship.
Another blunt display has sent Stoke’s attacking numbers into alarming territory.
Millwall’s recent difficulties (DLL against Derby, Hull and Blackburn) are reflected in their underlying numbers.
Stevenage are now bottom of League One’s 10-game xG ratio table, despite posting the fifth-best defensive numbers in that time. No team in the division has created fewer chances in 2025/26 – yet they’re 3rd in (actual) points per game.
Huddersfield’s performances are getting better amid lingering fan discontent, even if results are slower to catch up; with three of their next four fixtures at home to Port Vale, Northampton and Exeter, they could break back into the top six.
Exeter’s xG ratio is improving, mind, over the short, medium and long term.
MK have flown up League Two’s xG ratio form table, helped by a resounding win over struggling Harrogate.
Cambridge’s defensive numbers are strong and getting stronger.
And Grimsby’s numbers may be starting to drop off, though they remain top of the season-long xG ratio table… and 15th in the league table, with three points from eight games.