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Categories of Goals, Attempts and Ratios in the 2018 World Cup

Attempts at Goal and Goals scored in 2018 World Cup

Comparing the Scoring Patterns in the EPL with the ‘A’ League  I find it interesting to compare scoring patterns in different competitions and also to look at the way the top teams score goals compared with the pattern of all teams in the competition. Scoring Categories I created three categories of goals in Open Play …

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A snapshot of EPL scoring patterns Over the course of a season the average number of goals is around 2.5 per match. In a good year it might be just over 3 goals per game but that’s quite unusual. In the last two seasons the average goals per game has been (1068/380 games) 2.8 and …

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Hyundai ‘A’ League scoring trends between 2014 & 2017  Football is played according to the Principles of Play. Differences in playing style demonstrate different ways of applying the Principles, for example some teams prefer to apply the defending Principle of ‘Delay’ by pressing high up the field while other teams prefer to defend closer to …

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Changing the ‘system’ – or our thinking about ‘systems’? When national coach Ange Postecoglou changed his regular 1-4-3-3 shape and started with a back three, for the matches against Iraq and UAE, he gave the media, coaches, pundits and fans plenty to talk about. The change in his system of play also involved the role …

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Hyundai A League goals after 14 Rounds of the 2016-17 season We are at the halfway stage of the season and I like to compare the scoring patterns with last season.  I am more interested in goals scored in Open Play but record the goals scored from Set Plays because they are still very important. …

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