Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Room for improvement of course but for me the odd extra cross going astray is preferable to the intermidable sideways passing in front of goal we usually have to endure.
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The Stats Thread
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SteveAWOL
Colin Calderwood
FWIW, according to the Premier League site… hopefully we’re able to field a proper CF more frequently next season which should help.
Porro had 32% accuracy from 77 crosses in 2022/23
Porro has 19% accuracy from 197 crosses in 2023/24
Maddison had 28% accuracy from 123 crosses in 2022/23
Maddison has 17% accuracy from 127 crosses in 2023/24
Perisic had 28% accuracy from 123 crosses in 2022/23
Perisic has 23% accuracy from 13 crosses in 2023/24
75% of those will be romero and vdv I reckon.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Excellent work, thanks.
Stats seem to confirm main reasons suspected for drop in accuracy:
- Kane's departure (scored 10 headers in last season with us, a PL record)
- Perisic's long-term injury
- Ange urging more risk taking
- Son not a natural CF; seldom scores headers (about 4%)
Chrissivad
Sergei Rebrov
Not even in the top 3 for total tackles.
Porro - 90
Bissouma - 80
Udogie - 68
Romero - 65
Kulusevski - 61
VDV - 48
Then Royal and Sarr
VDV picks up a lot of lose balls that get hit long, and Romero's anticipation puts him high on interceptions
From who scored
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
So, extrapolating from Porro's stats above, last season he delivered roughly 37 accurate crosses from a total of 197 compared to 25 from just 77 in season 2022/23. Ooer. Well at least in theory it meant he created 12 more goalscoring chances than previously.
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
It’s not the cross that is always the issue
If your crossing for son you may as well cross for Stephen Hawking
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Yeah, as mentioned before, around 4% of his goals were headers. Even that number is a surprise, although he can be quite deft with his nut tbf.
Edit: saying that, low crosses across the face of the goal can often be more deadly, especially for the likes of Son.
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Kandi1977
Terry Dyson
A lot of our crosses are on the ground, where Son is pretty good at poking them in.
Chrissivad
Sergei Rebrov
Son isn't going to be jumping with a CB trying to win the ball. I'm sure he has even said he doesn't header the ball.
He has always been better when you can get the ball into his feet, it's why he (not just son) struggles against teams who sit back in numbers.
Would be a good option to have someone who is strong in the air, and we can also continue to get the ball wide and hit it low back in
He has always been better when you can get the ball into his feet, it's why he (not just son) struggles against teams who sit back in numbers.
Would be a good option to have someone who is strong in the air, and we can also continue to get the ball wide and hit it low back in
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
He isnt very good that
He is is rarely in the right place for it
Kandi1977
Terry Dyson
Take a look at a vid of his goals scored for us. There's plenty of them!
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
We really missed Perisic. He may not have been a starter, but as an impact sub you can't do better.