Clinical

[Davefevs]

21 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

I'm not sure the relevance of this table tbf. As you suggested above, we aren't a team that will take pot shots from 30 yards unlike others. We build up to create a better chance and maybe therefore not get a shot in at all. 

Any stats on goals/long shots? That would be interesting to see if we should be shooting more from distance

For info here is where we score / concede (all comps):

Haven’t got yesterdays data yet, but re taking big chances (XG > 0.3) we are doing pretty well, ie we take most of them.

[red colin]

10 hours ago, grifty said:

He can get the time if he's clever enough to find the space. If you watch off the ball, Williams and Massengo are very static when the defenders (more so Vyner & Atkinson) have the ball and often have an attacker in between stopping the simple pass in the middle. Small movements from either of them could open up the middle allowing a through ball or a simple pass, but they sort of just stand there looking around until Vyner pumps it down the line or Atkinson has a little run and passed to Jay. Scott is very good at this movement. and allows him to pick up the ball in space.

I think Naismith is clever enough to find these spaces which will give him time to pick passes out once in possession.

Seeing our central CB who is not blessed with pace and is normally last man attempting two Cruyff turns in 5 seconds is an unnecessary risk that we can't afford to take. Not to mention the attempted dribble v Hull where he lost it and they scored and the woeful pass today that set Blackpool through where fortunately the attacker turned back in to him and then there is playing an outside of the boot cross goal pass that bounces shin high to Vyner in the last minute of a game...

IMO his delivery and ability on the ball is wasted while playing the central defender of a back 3 and at times has shown to be a liability.

spot on

[ExiledAjax]

5 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

I'm not sure the relevance of this table tbf. As you suggested above, we aren't a team that will take pot shots from 30 yards unlike others. We build up to create a better chance and maybe therefore not get a shot in at all. 

Any stats on goals/long shots? That would be interesting to see if we should be shooting more from distance

The relevance is that it shows that we are "clinical" when compared to our competitors.   

In terms of being "clinical", long shots are shit. Generally they have about a 1-2% chance of going in. If they don't go in you generally cede possession to the other side.

Relevant stats are generally limited to shots from inside or outside the box. On that metric yeh we're near the bottom. Ie we don't shoot from outside the box much. That's been a trend for a few seasons now. 

It used to be an issue under LJ and then Holden, but that was because we weren't creating and scoring the close range shots. We are doing that very well right now, and so now I'd encourage us to continue with it rather than waste our possession with a 25 yard speculation.

Hope that makes sense.

[Mad Cyril]

I would be very interested to find out what our conversion rate is from 12 yards was, but the referees union has other ideas.

[Murraysrightplum]

19 hours ago, Rossi the Robin said:

I said to my Dad HNM would come off at half time  For some reason, didn’t seem in the game 

Is your dad Nigel Pearson?