| Shots 00:34 - Jan 17 with 788 views | SamWhiteUK |
I think I heard the commentator say that we've had the lowest number of shots from open play in the division?
I know it's not the be all and end all, but if even Soton are managing more shots than us, then something seems amiss... |  | | |  |
| Shots on 01:11 - Jan 17 with 683 views | Vaughan8 |
Shots is a bit of a stat that can be misleading.
A team could take 10 shots from 30 yards out. I don't think we were even that team when we were in the other leagues. We seem to pass it around a lot waiting for good opportunities.
Obviously that stat you say isn't great, but you need some more details behind it. |  | | |
| Shots on 01:41 - Jan 17 with 622 views | Smoresy |
| Shots on 01:11 - Jan 17 by Vaughan8 |
Shots is a bit of a stat that can be misleading.
A team could take 10 shots from 30 yards out. I don't think we were even that team when we were in the other leagues. We seem to pass it around a lot waiting for good opportunities.
Obviously that stat you say isn't great, but you need some more details behind it. |
Sorry to contradict you but we had the most shots of any Championship team last season, both on target and off target. Same in L1 22/23. Possession is what we sacrificed in 23/24 in order to keep the number of chances and shots super high, and it shouldn't have surprised opposition fans as much as it did that we kept edging games when we continuously kept these numbers in our favour.
Your point about blasting the ball from miles out is totally valid, but teams tend not to do that as a pattern because the chance of scoring is mostly too low to accept ending possession for. Average distance per shot is 14.6 yards for Arsenal at one end and 18.2 yards for Wolves at the other. We're 17.1 yards, closer to Wolves but also near the middle of the pack.
This season we're only above Southampton for shots overall, and bottom for open-play shots as OP raises. The bottom five for shots are in order from lowest: Southampton, us, Leicester, Everton, Wolves. What we've done better than the two below us is in the table is give away fewer shooting opportunities ourselves, but Wolves have been a bit better here too and Everton a good amount better. These are the numbers / ratios that we need to shift in our favour more to survive. | | | |
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