Notable changes in performance for the season to date (games = 20) .
Measures expressed as a % of the overall 2021-22 per game measures ...
Spurs :
1. Number of clean sheets has decreased by 40%
2. No goals have been scored from free kicks
Opposition
3. Number of goals scored has increased by 47%
4. Number of goals scored by headers has decreased by 52%
5. number of goals scored from free kicks is zero
6. Number of red cards accrued has decreased by 68% .
My suggestion for the causes of :
- 1/3 is that the Spurs defence has been worsening (these measures
are KPI)
- 2 is mainly due to allowing Kane to take direct free kicks
- 4/5 is mainly due to the Spurs defence being able to deal with crosses
- 6 is that the Spurs attack is not putting the opposition under
sufficient persistent pressure to draw rash tackles
I was having a read of this thread again over lunch and was thinking about this. One source of the lack of clean sheets is errors from the defenders and GK. The PL’s stats say we have made 6, which I believe is the highest in the division, with Lloris alone responsible for 4 of them. The others are one each from Dier and Romero.
Now I don’t know the way they have calculated this metric