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The Stats Thread

Thought these were interesting.

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Watching the Goal of the Month competition on MotD2 last night made me think quite how nice it must be to be able to score from free kicks...

Are swerve-and-dip balls behind dramatic increase in goals from free kicks? | The Times
Published at 12:01AM, September 30 2013
Rickie Lambert, Wayne Rooney and Leandro Acuna all scored direct from free kicks at the weekend, making the rate of such goals this term one per five Premier League games, up from one every 14 over the past three seasons.
While that might well be merely a six-week quirk, an investigation into goals from free kicks since the formation of the Premier League reveals a remarkable long-term rise.
Over the past 13 years, from the start of the 2000-01 season, goals direct from free kicks have been scored at a rate of one per 12 Premier League games. Yet between 1992 and 2000 they only occurred once every 26 matches — less than half as often.
The impression is that a higher proportion of free-kick goals in the 1990s were scored through striking the ball hard and fairly straight, perhaps benefiting from a deflection or the ball sneaking through the wall, whereas now efforts fired over the wall seem to be the most common method of finding the back of the net.
If so, then the introduction of footballs that swerve and dip more readily — allowing them to travel round or over the wall — could explain this dramatic change.
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Spur of the moment said:
Tempting to conclude this reflects how much more the big decisions go for the Big Four, especially the two we suspect the most, United and Chelsea. Might be even more telling to see a similar table omitting only penalties and free kicks.
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Excluding penalties we would move up to 14th in the league for the total number of goals scored from set piece last season:



http://www.squawka.com/football-tea...any#season#2#all-matches#total#desc#c47-Spurs
 
Rossi22 said:
Thought these were interesting.

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I wonder how many chances we have allowed but avoided the shot, especially through Lloris sweeping up.

I think that until yesterday, so far this season teams had been able to counter-attack and get in dangerous situations but we restricted the shots they got off and dealing with those they did. Yesterday that changed, with West Ham getting shots off and the breaks. Only time will tell if we were just unlucky yesterday or had been riding out luck before.
 
Twitter / OptaJoe: 557/404 - Tottenham (557) have played the most long passes in the Premier League this season, Arsenal the fewest (404). Contrast.

Twitter / SpursStatMan: The average length of Hugo Lloris' distribution this season is 37m, the 4th shortest out of all keepers in the Premier League.

Twitter / SpursStatMan: Hugo Lloris has made 9 punches in the Premier League this season, only Mignolet (10) has made more, and he has won 100% of his 25 claims.

Twitter / SpursStatMan: Spurs have received 20 yellow cards this season in the Premier League, a total only beaten by Man Utd (21).

Twitter / SpursStatMan: 34 of our last 49 Premier League goals have come in the second half.

Twitter / OptaJoe: 11 - Tottenham's highest number of penalties in a single PL season was 1993-94 when they won 11. Legs.
 
Not too dissimilar to last season, where we ranked 12th in the league for First Half results and 4th for Second Half results, which I suppose fits into AVB' philosophy of wearing opponents down through our dominance of possession.

In contrast to Redknapp' teams... in 2011/12 we ranked 3rd for First Half results but still 4th for Second Half results... his 2010/11 side ranked 10th for both First and Second Half results... in 2009/10 we ranked 3rd for First Half and 7th for Second Half results.
 
Our most embarrassing EPL stats to date?

Spurs v current top six

P6 W0 D2 L4 GF1 GA14 Pts2

0-1 Arsenal
1-1 Chelsea
0-0 Everton
0-1 Saudi Sportswashing Machine
0-6 Emirates Marketing Project
0-5 Liverpool

Thanfully, apart from the odd aberration, at least we continue to beat the teams below us

Spurs v the rest

P11 W9 D1 L1 GF17 GA9 Pts28

1-0 C Palace
1-0 Swansea
1-0 Cardiff
2-0 Norwich
0-3 West Ham
2-0 Aston Villa
1-0 Hull City
2-2 Man Utd
2-1 Fulham
2-1 Sunderland
3-2 Southampton

What a contrast!
 
Stoke only club not to have scored with a horse this season

Data reveals Potters' aversion to stable-based goal action...

Stoke City remain the only Premier League club this season yet to register a goal from a horse, according to statistics from data experts Opta.

The news is especially remarkable given that for each of the past three seasons, Stoke have led the league in goals scored by horses, with former manager Tony Pulis an avowed fan of old-fashioned English equidae.

But new boss Mark Hughes has made it a priority to phase out the club’s domestic livestock, with the result that every goal scored by the Potters this season has come either from a human or a goalkeeper.

“Herbert [Mark Hughes] has been determined to show he’s not a one-dimensional man,” a club insider told FourFourTwo. “He wants us to work on shape and ball retention and controlling the midfield, which means less space in the team for cloven-hooved beasts of burden.

“It’s been a blow for a few of four-legged lads, who’ve always worked their tails off for us, but on the plus side Glenn Whelan’s been much more visible this season now he doesn’t have to carry oats around for Argo, Shadowfax and Charlie Adam.”

In other surprising details released this week by Opta, Norwich City are the only team with a 100% record from line-outs, while Southampton have had the fewest players mauled by feral bears (3), a likely consequence of Mauricio Pochettino’s emphasis on fitness training.

Stoke face Villa this weekend, who have injury concerns over Charles N'Zogbia (knee), Chris Herd (hamstring) and Ron Vlaar (fetlock).

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/stoke-only-club-not-have-scored-horse-season
 
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