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Man City: Away day Blues | Opta Stats Analysis

Shots

If you don’t shoot, you don’t score. So goes the old adage in football but it is perhaps not as simple as that when analysing the numbers. Total shots by a side is the figure often referred to when discussing a side’s dominance in a game or trying to quantify potency in front of goal.

Not all shots are equal however. Certain shots undoubtedly have a greater worth than others and certain shots will have a better chance of leading to a goal (for instance City have scored fifteen goals inside the box and fourteen goals outside the box this season).

The graphic below looks at City’s total number of shots and then breaks this down into four categories: inside the box, outside the box, on target and off target. As is clear, there is a consistent pattern across all categories in terms of a drop in numbers between the first six and last eight games with one very important exception; shots on target:

Taking this a step further, we can look deeper into those shots that (in theory at least) should provide a greater opportunity to result in a goal being scored: shots taken from inside the box. The following graphic breaks down each of City’s away games this season and the outcome of these shots:

The first six games of the season – when City were in rampant goal scoring form – saw the Blues’ average 11.33 shots per game and hit the net 2.83 times. The following eight games have seen a dramatic reduction in terms of goals per game with a miserly 0.5 goals on average, having been shut out on four occasions.

Next Page: Shooting analysis continued…

dannypugsley
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Managing Editor of SBNation's Manchester City blog 'Bitter and Blue' and author of 'Man City 365'.
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