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Do England stats show we have a better chance than we think?

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Do England stats show we have a better chance than we think?

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League Shot Rates Per Goal (excluding penalties)

England's strikers sit 5th in the table of the number of shots it takes to score a goal, based on league games during 2017/18. Belgiumsit 7th and Belgium 8th.

Do England have a better chance than we think? 

We still have to create the chances, something we struggled with during qualification, despite the relatively easy opposition. 

Despite their slow start, have Uruguay have been underrated and the Germans overrated?

Are Belgium not as good as people think?

1. 🇺🇾 - 4.54 (Suárez, Cavani, Stuani, Maxi) 2. 🇧🇷 - 5.31 (Gabriel, Neymar, Firmino) 3. 🇫🇷 - 5.35 (Griezmann, Giroud, Mbappé) 4. 🇪🇦 - 5.45 (Aspas, Rodrigo, Costa)
5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - 5.79 (Kane, Vardy, Welbeck) 6. 🇦🇷 - 5.98 (Messi, Aguero, Higuain) 7. 🇧🇪 - 6.21 (Mertens, Lukaku, Batshuayi) 8. 🇩🇪 - 6.89 (Warner, Gómez, Müller) 9. 🇵🇹 - 9.00 (Ronaldo, Silva, Guedes)



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3 comments

  1. Here's a link to a similar article, albeit from a different approach
    https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/Elcx9YTaIkq7o5V69abkKQ/Show/Stats-prove-Messi-Ronaldo-and-Kane-well-short-of-Europe-s-clinical-finishers
    ...hence my comment on Clive's previous post.
    Could it be that, because the famous three don't have any competition for their places, they have become nonchalant?
  2. Well, as most of us have just witnessed, VAR, is simply not a step forward, but just another avenue that allows corruption to impregnate international football.
    What a pathetic response from the BBC commentary team...still, not surprising from a country that's been anesthetized by the PC brigade...
    • Very frustrated with the use of the system myself too, but I certainly wouldn't go as far as to put that down to the introduction of VAR. Certainly it hasn't fixed all the problems, but nor has it made it any worse. I believe it's helped enormously in many situations too.

      I can't argue against there being corruption involved. That England - as always - get dumped on from a height, even when the VAR shows very clearly that at least two penalties - probably two of the clearest penalties in the whole competition so far - should have been awarded, is entirely consistent with major competition after major competition.

      All we need to do now is to show the world that we keep on keeping on in spite of the circumstances.