That's the point that's been made. Players tend to average out to their XG because finishing as a stat is negligible and down to variance. What is more important is getting in the right place at the right time. Solanke has been doing that and now it is paying off. Watkins has improved it and now he is scoring more.
The act of finishing is hitting the ball in the right direction, and most professional footballers can do that at this level. Whether it goes in or not is sometimes not what you can control (miss hit, goalie saves, bounces off the bar).
You have good XG you'll have more chances, eventually it starts paying off, and you end up scoring about what you were expected to.
Solanke himself is proof of that - it was always good, now he is scoring.
It's more important to regularly be in the right place at the right time
I don't disagree with much of this, and it's why I'd far rather have Nunez playing for us than 2006 Robbie Fowler, for example, even though God was a better finisher even at that stage of his career.
That doesn't mean Nunez's finishing *can't* improve beyond simple variance and luck. I mean, take the word at its face value. He literally isn't
finishing the majority of the time. He is simply shooting. That needs to change and I believe it will to some extent over time.
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