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SaintinNZ said:
From the Telegraph - #23. Only the teams that finished in the top six had more shots than Southampton's 549 but only the bottom five scored fewer than their 41 goals.
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One partial explanation as to why: miserable shooting from distance, combined with far fewer goalmouth chances.

Team ---Goals/shots -Shot%

Chelsea -- 12/216 - 5.56%
Liverpool - 13/257 - 5.05%
Leicester - 9/183 -- 4.92%
Burnley ---- 8/179 -- 4.47%
Tottenham 12/313 --3.83%
West Brom 6/158 - 3.80%
Arsenal ---- 7/187 -- 3.74%
Swansea -- 5/158 -- 3.16%
Stoke --------5/161 -- 3.11%
Man City --- 7/241 -- 2.90%
Man Utd ---- 7/248 -- 2.82%
West Ham -- 6/230 -- 2.61%
Hull ---------- 4/162 -- 2.47%
Watford ----- 4/190 -- 2.11%
Brnmouth --- 4/201 - 1.99%
Saints ------- 4/210 -- 1.90%
Sunderland - 3/168 -- 1.79%
Everton ----- 3/198 --- 1.52%
Palace ------ 2/162 -- 1.23%
Middlesboro 1/150 -- 0.67%


We took lots of long shots...but we were one of the worst teams in the league at converting long shots (I also cannot remember us scoring too many on rebounds from long shots, either). Our overall percentage of long shots wasn't spectacularly high; teams that have higher possession stats tend to take more long shots, as a function of facing packed defenses. But facing packed defenses is really rather difficult when your midfielders have no accuracy and you struggle to work chances in the box.

In 2015/16, we were okay when shooting from distance (3.31%), but we were also more choosy, taking a lower percentage of shots from range. Instead, in part because we hit teams on the counter, we got more shots from very short range, and scored a sizable sum of our goals that way. We were second in the league in goals scored in the six yard box that season (behind only walk-it-in Wenger). This season? 15th.
 
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Just miserable all round when it comes to goals this year. Blame the manager, blame the strikers, blame the transfer business. Take your pick. I pick all three.

One thing I will note is that I am really surprised our attempts on goal are that high as I really don't feel like we've put that many teams under the hammer. Missed some sitters, some chances gone begging but stats are exaggerating our threat throughout the season. The quality of our chances wouldn't be up there with City and Chelsea thats for sure.
 
SaintinNZ said:
The quality of our chances wouldn't be up there with City and Chelsea thats for sure.
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I would tend to agree, but it still doesn't solve the problem. Was our inability to create quality chances a function of poor tactics or poor talent? I lean more towards the latter. Boufal was a buts this year. Tadic was inconsistent as usual. I think we all know by now that JWP and Davis have their pluses but are not guys who can pull that killer ball out of their ass against a locked defense. Don't see Redmond becoming that player either.
 
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