Interesting Stats comparison

[modern matron]

Interesting comparing statistics for the Reading game and West Ham / Brighton.

 

Both us and West Ham had 18 attempts on goal, 12 on target. Brighton had more attempts on target (6) than Reading (5). We had more possession, more corners than West Ham did and Brighton had more than Reading. What does this tell us? There is not a lot of difference between winning 6-0 and losing 3-1, it proves that we need take more of our chances and either defend better or hope our final opponents are not as lethal as Reading when they get a chance.

 

We usually finish clinically, defend better and teams don't take every chance presented to them a la Reading, If normal service resumes then there is every reason to think we will win all 3 and maybe the championship trophy as well so let's keep believing!!!

 

COYR

[david in sweden]

nice figs.

Being a bit of a stats. nerd myself, I understand that there's more to a game than merely the result or the points.

 

You're right that our rate of finishing is not nearly as good as it should be, but when you get on-form goalies like Federici against you - it's tougher.

with the first half chances we had, we'd have had 3 or 4 by HT on another day.

[Fan The Flames]

We were just too flat on Friday, cutting down the options of the last pass. When Reading broke of their second they had options for the last pass which is harder to defend.

[Doctoroncall]

The last time the midfield contributed to the goals tally was the 10th March, with Lallana scoring two goals. 18th February again with Lallana. It's the 14th January since a different midfielder has scored - Gully and schneiderlin helping out then. It seems are midfield dynamism has gone and the opposition are pressing more.