| Set Piece Conversion Rate 09:50 - Nov 16 with 2196 views | SheffordBlue |
Set pieces are currently accounting for just under a quarter of our goals tally. Against teams who pack the box in open play the fact that we're creating better quality opportunities from set pieces and converting them is going to be quite important I feel.
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 09:54 - Nov 16 with 2177 views | GeoffSentence |
Didn't McKenna identify our lack of set piece goals last year as a weakness?
You've got to hand it to the man, he sees a problem and sorts it out. |  |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:20 - Nov 16 with 2118 views | HighgateBlue |
That is a welcome graphic, it really is. Davis' delivery seems to be improving all the time, so there is much to be pleased with here. It's good that we've improved in this area.
However, how 'deadly' we are really depends on this 'xG' metric, which is a bit mysterious. The fact that the median xG is different from the median actual goals means that the xG metric is not perfect, which is perhaps stating the obvious.
But I guess the thing to take from this is that Cheltenham may well have been a horrific aberration and I guess without Walton's error for their goal it would have been 1-0, with "nothing to see here". I just can't shake the feeling that we were the opposite of clinical and that a clinical striker is what we most obviously lack. |  | | |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:30 - Nov 16 with 2077 views | SheffordBlue |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:20 - Nov 16 by HighgateBlue |
That is a welcome graphic, it really is. Davis' delivery seems to be improving all the time, so there is much to be pleased with here. It's good that we've improved in this area.
However, how 'deadly' we are really depends on this 'xG' metric, which is a bit mysterious. The fact that the median xG is different from the median actual goals means that the xG metric is not perfect, which is perhaps stating the obvious.
But I guess the thing to take from this is that Cheltenham may well have been a horrific aberration and I guess without Walton's error for their goal it would have been 1-0, with "nothing to see here". I just can't shake the feeling that we were the opposite of clinical and that a clinical striker is what we most obviously lack. |
xG in general is based on thousands of data points whereas this will be based on several hundred so some difference is to be expected I guess. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:39 - Nov 16 with 2046 views | monty_radio |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:20 - Nov 16 by HighgateBlue |
That is a welcome graphic, it really is. Davis' delivery seems to be improving all the time, so there is much to be pleased with here. It's good that we've improved in this area.
However, how 'deadly' we are really depends on this 'xG' metric, which is a bit mysterious. The fact that the median xG is different from the median actual goals means that the xG metric is not perfect, which is perhaps stating the obvious.
But I guess the thing to take from this is that Cheltenham may well have been a horrific aberration and I guess without Walton's error for their goal it would have been 1-0, with "nothing to see here". I just can't shake the feeling that we were the opposite of clinical and that a clinical striker is what we most obviously lack. |
The last 15 minutes were like the Alamo with us providing the ammo, and Cheltenham the dead and dying. With 15-16 men in their box as the umpteenth ball was whipped in, but more especially floated over, what was noticeable from my seat dead in line with their area was the height disparity, Ladapo apart. It wasn't accidental that Burgess came on up front. Whoever that "clinical" striker turns out to be, he needs to be good in the air. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:49 - Nov 16 with 2014 views | Metal_Hacker |
My other take on this apart from how much we've improved in this respect is imagine where Plymouth would be if they pulled their finger out |  |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:01 - Nov 16 with 1957 views | HighgateBlue |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 10:39 - Nov 16 by monty_radio |
The last 15 minutes were like the Alamo with us providing the ammo, and Cheltenham the dead and dying. With 15-16 men in their box as the umpteenth ball was whipped in, but more especially floated over, what was noticeable from my seat dead in line with their area was the height disparity, Ladapo apart. It wasn't accidental that Burgess came on up front. Whoever that "clinical" striker turns out to be, he needs to be good in the air. |
Yes, you're absolutely right in respect of the last period of the match, no question. In that context, Ladapo has to be the one who sticks his hand up and accepts that it's his job to stick the ball in the net. He's the number 9, he's the tall guy, and when it's Alamo time, there's no room for explaining away other deficiencies by saying he holds the ball up well - the ball doesn't need holding up, it needs sticking in the net.
Bringing Burgess on was a good call in that particular situation, in my view. After all, it was a tall centre back who was our only player who managed to get one of the 29 shots on goal into the goal.
I do remember a tall player coming agonisingly close for us with a header in the box, only to be thwarted by a wonderful save. I wish I could recall Ladapo's wonderful headed attempts as easily as Walton's!!!
In short, I agree, but I'm maybe more frustrated. | | | |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:04 - Nov 16 with 1936 views | cbower |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 09:54 - Nov 16 by GeoffSentence |
Didn't McKenna identify our lack of set piece goals last year as a weakness?
You've got to hand it to the man, he sees a problem and sorts it out. |
Great we are scoring some from set pieces. I still feel we don't attack the ball well enough and our direct free kicks on goal are poor on the whole. |  |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:04 - Nov 16 with 1927 views | Pinewoodblue |
Be interesting to see how we are placed for goals conceded from set pieces. |  |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:57 - Nov 16 with 1865 views | SheffordBlue |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:04 - Nov 16 by Pinewoodblue |
Be interesting to see how we are placed for goals conceded from set pieces. |
We've conceded 7 - which is joint 3rd worst along with a number of different clubs. Plymouth have only conceded one so their inability to score is matched by an ability not to concede. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 12:02 - Nov 16 with 1842 views | GeoffSentence |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 11:04 - Nov 16 by cbower |
Great we are scoring some from set pieces. I still feel we don't attack the ball well enough and our direct free kicks on goal are poor on the whole. |
What do you want? The moon on a stick? ;) | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 12:56 - Nov 16 with 1721 views | thorpedo |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 09:54 - Nov 16 by GeoffSentence |
Didn't McKenna identify our lack of set piece goals last year as a weakness?
You've got to hand it to the man, he sees a problem and sorts it out. |
To be fair, Stevie Wonder could have seen that we had a set-piece problem last season.
Credit to McKenna for addressing it so well though. |  |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 13:04 - Nov 16 with 1691 views | Chrisd |
It's certainly encouraging that we are able to score from set pieces as it had been a standing joke before this season and set piece goals are important especially when a game is tight. Nevertheless, I'd then argue how many corners do we get most games? It seems like we get over double figures on average, still think we could do even better with this stat. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 13:12 - Nov 16 with 1677 views | SheffordBlue |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 13:04 - Nov 16 by Chrisd |
It's certainly encouraging that we are able to score from set pieces as it had been a standing joke before this season and set piece goals are important especially when a game is tight. Nevertheless, I'd then argue how many corners do we get most games? It seems like we get over double figures on average, still think we could do even better with this stat. |
According to some of the stats sites we're averaging 7.8 corners per game which makes it about 140 corners in total. We've scored 5 which means we're scoring from about 3.5%.
That sounds really low but I think it's just indicative of how rarely teams score from corners and this article found that in the Premier League it averaged about 3%.
https://sqaf.club/goals-from-corners-stats/
I think we're probably there or thereabouts now but getting lots of corners means we'll get more goals from them than teams that get far fewer. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 16:42 - Nov 16 with 1560 views | GeoffSentence |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 13:12 - Nov 16 by SheffordBlue |
According to some of the stats sites we're averaging 7.8 corners per game which makes it about 140 corners in total. We've scored 5 which means we're scoring from about 3.5%.
That sounds really low but I think it's just indicative of how rarely teams score from corners and this article found that in the Premier League it averaged about 3%.
https://sqaf.club/goals-from-corners-stats/
I think we're probably there or thereabouts now but getting lots of corners means we'll get more goals from them than teams that get far fewer. |
I'd seen that before and was surprised how few goals are scored from corners, despite how excited we all get about them.
The other enlightening fact it reveals is that short corners are more effective than long corners.
As a result I now instruct my FM teams to take short corners. | |
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| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 21:20 - Nov 17 with 1322 views | ArnieM |
| Set Piece Conversion Rate on 09:54 - Nov 16 by GeoffSentence |
Didn't McKenna identify our lack of set piece goals last year as a weakness?
You've got to hand it to the man, he sees a problem and sorts it out. |
Striker a centre backs coming in in Jan then, good. |  |
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