This decade, no team has
conceded fewer shots across an entire season than City did.
(Bayern
conceded the fewest shots in Germany in each of Guardiola's three seasons at the club.)
It's no surprise that Napoli and Juventus sit atop Serie A as they are the two top teams that
concede the fewer shots.
Not exact matches
I took time out to study the Laliga stats when I took notice of him and I discovered that Sociedad are among the top 5 teams in all the positive stats, including possession,
shot conversion rate, highest no of goals scored and
fewest no of goals
conceded.
Almost straight after the restart a third goal from a deflected Bellerin
shot sealed the points and Arsenal rarely looked like
conceding although there were a
few hairy moments in the last 25 minutes.
In the last five games, Allegri's men have
conceded only 8.45 normalized
shots per game, 15 percent
fewer than league leader Napoli (9.95 normalized
shots per game).
Between this defensive routine and a solid central midfield in front of them, Seattle faced only a
few dangerous looks that came through the middle,
conceded only one
shot on goal, and earned their first clean sheet of the season.
Only 4 percent of the
shots they
concede come from inside the 6 - yard box, second
fewest in the league.
While there are some exceptions, the way to build a successful team through a season and beyond is to create lots of
shots and
concede very
few.
Not only have they
conceded only two goals, the
fewest in the league, but they've also
conceded only 41
shots, 10
fewer than any other team.
Pep Guardiola's men have
conceded 12 goals more than Spurs in the Premier League this season, despite having
fewer shots on their goal and that tells me that Harry Kane (who has been responsible for five of the last 10 Spurs strikes) will take his chances with
shots from any angle against Claudio Bravo who has a poor
shot to goal ratio when
conceding this season.
Opta consider the quality of
shots a goalkeeper faces, his placement in the goal and the position of the shooter to determine how many
fewer - or more - goals the goalkeeper
conceded than expected, from which they establish the «expected goals on target» (xGoT).
The pair actually lead the way in a whole host of areas in 2015/16 — Spurs have created the most chances, scored the most set - piece goals, attempted the most
shots & also boast the best defensive record, having
conceded the
fewest goals.
The risk worked, Jota leads the team with 14 goals and Neves in defensive midfield anchors a unit that has
conceded only 33 goals, the second -
fewest in the league and 9.6
shots per game, the
fewest in the league.
As Pataki, who is just a
few weeks shy of his 70th birthday, prepared in recent weeks to announce his candidacy, he
conceded to friends and allies that he was an extreme long
shot for the Republican nomination.