Day 80

I dove into goal analysis today. Turns out we have some really neat tools for doing it.

The first thing I noticed was that most of our goals come from the wings—passes or crosses from wide positions. Interestingly, our opponents have not yet scored by passing from one player to another within the penalty area. We have managed it four times in the league, however.

We tend to score either early in the match or in the middle portion of the match—18 out of 38 of our goals in all matches, and 12 out of 23 of our goals in the league have been scored between 31 and 60 minutes into a match.

In friendly matches, our goals mostly came through long passes from within our own half; we've managed that four times in the league, making for an even distribution. As for the type of assists, passing dominates for both goals we score and goals we concede. Having said that, though, our crossing has apparently improved over the last five matches—four of the six goals scored by converting a cross came in those most recent five games.

I'm also pleased to see that we have yet to concede during injury time at the end of a match (although we haven't scored then, either, which is unfortunate).

I can't wait to revisit this later in the season, when there's more data to go on and the trends are more apparent.