Format is: - Name,
goals less penalties, minutes played, minutes per goal Aguero, 15, 1777, 118 Lukaku, 17, 2419, 142 Kane, 16, 2735, 171 Giroud, 11, 1939, 176 Vardy, 15, 2718, 181 Ighalo, 14, 2565, 183 Mahrez, 12, 2455, 204
Not exact matches
39
goals and 11 assist in 44 games, and only 1
penalty taken and no «shoulder
goals», in his first season no
less, is more than enough to make any opposing fan jealous.
Take out the
penalties and he has scored
less league
goals than OG in the last 5 seasons.
Surprisingly, and frankly I was shocked, over 60 % of the title winning teams in the past 5 years have had their designated / main centre forward scoring 16 or
less goals (either with or without
penalties).
And keep in mind that United conceded 18
less penalties, so that is only a 16 non-penalty
goal difference over nearly 300 matchs...
Granted, this has as much to do with a change in manager as anything, but the moment Luciano Spalletti took over last winter, Roma relied
less on set pieces and
penalties and, thanks to Stephan El Shaarawy, Diego Perotti and Mohamed Salah, took a more direct route to the
goal.
It was Hazard's second
goal of the season and while his
penalty against West Ham was no
less important, this was a strike that epitomised a player brimming with confidence.
However, his intervention in our
penalty area proved
less useful moments after Sterling's
goal, the forward clumsily bringing down Munoz with a flailing leg as the full - back got into the box.
Well Tevez scored five
penalties to Aguero's three, Tevez scored his 23
goals with four shots
less (126 to 130) whilst both average one shot on target in each of the games against the Top 6 teams.