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John Knight's avatar

Really nice, Martin, well done.

Matt's avatar

My favourite takeaway is the relationship between increase in open play conversion rate overall and the decline in long range shot volume. Really interesting read!

Ryan Inghilterra's avatar

Great work as usual! It feels like Spurs this season have been conceding a large amount of goals from the top of the box which is interesting.

Multiple coaches in the PL have talked about how they do not like shots from outside the box often due to low probability of scoring (low xG). This includes Thomas Frank.

MartinOnData's avatar

Somehow it does not surprise me that an ex-Brentford manager does not like low xG shots 😅

Football Machine's avatar

EPL has the lowest avg distance out of the top 5… brutal. Makes you pine for another Lampard to pop up.

Dave Sirl's avatar

Nice! But should the article be called “death of the attempted screamer? - how do the two competing forces balance out? Fewer long range shots but each one more likely to score; the numbers are there but I think the real answer to “is the screamer dying?” would be in a plot of the number scored (rather than attempted) over time.