The recent scoring form of Hertha Berlin has been rather poor with less
than a goal per game on an average.
They have averaged two goals per game on home soil which their defence has been rock solid having conceded less
than a goal per game on average this season.
The Tigers have produced less
than a goal per game on their travels this season in the Championship and they have conceded at an average of 1.6 per game on the road.
Having scored less
than a goal per game on the road in the league this term, which doesn't bode well for a clash with Premier League opposition.
Bournemouth have averaged less
than a goal per game on their travels, while they have conceded at an average of 1.5 goals per game.
Defensively they have conceded less
than a goal per game on average So Bloomfield Road is where Blackpool need to excel again for the semi finals.
Not exact matches
Teams who got relegated was also the only teams in the EPL last year to not score
on average more
than 1
goal per EPL
game, teams who did managed to survive.
As the Czech has made 11 more league appearances
than the Belgian since August 2015, clocking up over 1,000 more minutes of action, our analysis has been made
on a
per minute,
per game and
per goal conceded basis.
Any fears that his powers as a striker are
on the wane at 34 - years old should be eased by the fact that his last season in France has been his most prolific ever, with 46
goals from 49
games, including 36 in the league at a rate of more
than one
per match.
Clement also admitted that he is going to focus
on being solid defensively, which is little surprise considering that the Swans have
on average conceded more
than 2
goals per game in the first half of the season, so Arsenal will have to be prepared to break down a dogged defence.
NM has one league
goal in two seasons, NM and MS have a total of 3 assists between them this year and create a lot less
than one chance
per game on average.
With 0.96
goals per game this season, only Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez have a better
goals per game ratio
than the Iceland striker, who narrowly missed out
on a place at the World Cup after his country lost to Croatia in the playoffs.
They've beaten up
on a lot of bottom half teams but because they're not us get rated as some fantastic all out attacking outfit, only scoring 1/3 of a
goal more
than us
per game.
Rashford and Martial have already scored important
goals and no United player has made more successful take -
ons -
per -
game in the league this season
than either player.
How they've earned that has been a little different from the sides around them, though, as they have been one of the stingiest outfits in the league while scoring just enough to get their share of results — they have the sixth best
goals against record, letting in only one
per game on average so far, and are the only side below Tottenham to have conceded less
than 15 times.
Newcastle's overall home record this season is W4 F5 L4 and they have averaged 1.5
goals per game on home soil, actually though having only scored two more
than they have conceded there.
Verdict: Manchester United have been
on average just 0.1 expected
goals per game better
than Liverpool, yet have won all four matches.
Mignolet has conceded more
goals per game than his Man Utd counterpart, which just confirms how Liverpool have relied
on their free - scoring forwards to make up for their defensive weaknesses this season.
West Brom have managed to come up with only the seven
goals so far this season as it is, which is less
than half a
goal per game on average.
Steve McClaren's men have yet to win in the league this season and have conceded more
than two
goals per game on average.
Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get
on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more,
per game,
than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's
goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of
goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of
goals in the league?
They are averaging exactly two
goals per game on the road but only 38 % of their road
games have gone over 2.5
goals and none have gone over 3.5 which suggest that Barcelona are efficient more
than destructive.
With 2.4
goals average
per game this season to date, then
goals scored are more
than 10 % down
on last season's average of 2.7, but once again it is perhaps too early to predict a continuation of the downward
goal scoring trend.
Diego Costa is
on course to score more
goals than he has in either of his previous two seasons, one assist shy of his personal best already and is committing fewer fouls
per game than in his previous two seasons.
City have averaged 2.7
goals per game on their travels this season and are seven points better off
than they were at this stage last season.