What is ‘intended purpose’?

He PSG closed its participation in Champions League with something new elimination which closed the doors to the final at Wembley. The one in Luis Enrique they failed to score a goal in 180 minutes of his wrist with the Borussia Dortmundalthough in defense of the French it must be considered that in between the round trip they fell as far as six balls in the posts.

Data that ultimately does not decide the outcome of the tie but shows that Mbappé, Dembélé and the company, with a little more luck, could enter the final of ‘orejona’.

This is what he was referring to Luis Enrique at the end of the match, although he did so with more up-to-date terminology: the Asturian coach defined the ‘expected purpose’, concept that can be translated as ‘anticipated goal’: “We We did 3 of the ‘expected goals’ and they were 0.7 and they have scored. “It is what it is,” he stressed, resigned.

But what is ‘intended purpose’? This is index which results from the calculation of various variants and that relies heavily on the tools provided by artificial intelligence which is gradually becoming a regular travel companion in our daily lives.

To calculate this, they consider many variables: from number of shots on goal for the team (or for each player if the calculation is individual) at position where they are made (in or out of place, with more or less angle with respect to the objective…), passing through distance in purpose, the rivals What is between the point of the shot and the opponent’s goal, etc.

In this way, the data expressed by Luis Enrique, translated into an ‘earthly’ language, means that PSG should have finished the game having scored three goals and Dortmund, in a theoretical world, less than one, specifically 0.7. Or what is the same, that PSG failed in the offensive aspect and the German team got an honorary degree, because it was more than they expected.