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stupot07

stupot07

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Fergusons_Beard said:
maybe we need to appreciate just how difficult it is to score a goal-at any level.

This article breaks down the stats behind goal scoring opportunities https://statsbomb.com/2016/10/xcommentary/ definitely worth a read.




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Interesting that. Especially when you look at our stats on Whoscored.com we're the lowest in the league for goals scored in the 6 yard box.


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Gibbo

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stupot07 said:
Interesting that. Especially when you look at our stats on Whoscored.com we're the lowest in the league for goals scored in the 6 yard box.


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This has been my bug bear for quite a time.
We have not been scoring enough goals (see the goal diff compared to others), but the goals we do score are often very good goals - Shipley's on Saturday being yet another as would have been O'Hare's if it had gone in. If you see the match highlights for all games a good proportion of goals in League 1 and League 2 are plainly "scruffy" - coming from poor defensive work in the penalty area.
We have not been good enough at scoring our share of these scruffy goals. Bakayoko's late equalizer almost qualifies, but I can't remember many. So much as I love a raking cross field pass leading to a clean strike from the edge of the box.....I'd settle for a few more scuffy scrambles in the box if it got our goal tally up. It is something we are missing.
 
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covboy1987

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Gibbo said:
This has been my bug bear for quite a time.
We have not been scoring enough goals (see the goal diff compared to others), but the goals we do score are often very good goals - Shipley's on Saturday being yet another as would have been O'Hare's if it had gone in. If you see the match highlights for all games a good proportion of goals in League 1 and League 2 are plainly "scruffy" - coming from poor defensive work in the penalty area.
We have not been good enough at scoring our share of these scruffy goals. Bakayoko's late equalizer almost qualifies, but I can't remember many. So much as I love a raking cross field pass leading to a clean strike from the edge of the box.....I'd settle for a few more scuffy scrambles in the box if it got our goal tally up. It is something we are missing.
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15 goals in the last 6 games shows we are turning the corner on scoring goals - We have to deal with here and now and recent form -
 
Evo1883

Evo1883

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I do wish sometimes, and I rarely moan about how we play... That we would get the ball in and around the 6 yard box more to give our strikers a better chance of scoring more... However what we are currently doing is working... Just in a less traditional way
 
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Speedies_Chips

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Gibbo said:
This has been my bug bear for quite a time.
We have not been scoring enough goals (see the goal diff compared to others), but the goals we do score are often very good goals - Shipley's on Saturday being yet another as would have been O'Hare's if it had gone in. If you see the match highlights for all games a good proportion of goals in League 1 and League 2 are plainly "scruffy" - coming from poor defensive work in the penalty area.
We have not been good enough at scoring our share of these scruffy goals. Bakayoko's late equalizer almost qualifies, but I can't remember many. So much as I love a raking cross field pass leading to a clean strike from the edge of the box.....I'd settle for a few more scuffy scrambles in the box if it got our goal tally up. It is something we are missing.
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I think the reason we don’t score scruffy goals is that generally we don’t get many people in the box so there’s no one in a position to score off their arse from 2 yards.
 
robbiekeane

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shmmeee said:
I swear we’ll win the league and someone on here will be moaning that we converted the least amount of left footed backheels from outside the area in the second half of Tuesday night games.

It’s mid January and we have it in our power to win the league. We’re doing OK.
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It’s the lack of in the first half that pisses me off
 
Johhny Blue

Johhny Blue

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It’s interesting to evaluate specific chances.
The odds of Dele Alli’s shot going in to the keepers left as opposed to the gaping net on his right were low. Does that make it a great goal? If the defender had blocked it would he have been stupid not to go the other way?
The first time I saw Shipley play was at Oxford last year and he scored a goal where I thought he chose the wrong option. (I thought the same about his goal at Doncaster). I saw him in the next game at home to Barnsley and thought he would never make it as a league one player.
I’m glad to be proven wrong.
 
Gazolba

Gazolba

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One of the differences between a good striker and an average striker is that when a good striker shoots, he follows the ball in so if there is a rebound or parry, he can still score.
That's why in the Premier League when a GK stops a shot, he has to parry it well to the left or right, because if he just parries it out forwards it's almsot sure to be fired in by someone following up.
 
SlowerThanPlatt

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Gazolba said:
One of the differences between a good striker and an average striker is that when a good striker shoots, he follows the ball in so if there is a rebound or parry, he can still score.
That's why in the Premier League when a GK stops a shot, he has to parry it well to the left or right, because if he just parries it out forwards it's almsot sure to be fired in by someone following up.
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Is there any statistical evidence behind this? Following the ball in from a shot is one of the basics taught at junior level. Also a goalkeeper to parry the ball away from opposition players and away from goal. I’m not sure it’s exclusive to Premier League players or good ones as you say, you would find these happening at Sunday league
 
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