They squawked. They shouted. They put it down. And, at the end of it, they ran Expected Goals (xG) out of town with all the tolerance of a group of villagers towards Frankenstein's Monster.
xG is a new metric that has been introduced by Opta this season. It has been trotted out on Match of the Day since the first weekend of the campaign, but not many people seem to understand what it is.
Among them are Jeff Stelling and the panel on Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday. The host responded to claims from Arsene Wenger that Manchester City are not unstoppable.