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Now 20 games have been played, won and lost by all the teams in the A-League, it’s time to review the performance of each team by their applicable statistics.
Note that ultimately points is the best statistic of a team’s performance and the teams at the top of the ladder are there deservedly so. All statistics were taken from footballaustralia.com.au.
The most exciting moment in any soccer match is of course the scoring of a goal. The team that’s provided us with the most exciting moments is the league-leaders, the Central Coast Mariners, with 37 goals.
Sydney FC are second with 34 goals, and Melbourne Victory are third with 30 goals. At the bottom is, somewhat predictably, the struggling Perth Glory with 20 goals.
An interesting way to analyse the offensive performance of each team would be investigate the goals-per-attempt ratio of each team (using attempts both off-and-on target).
For example, the Western Sydney Wanderers have had the most attempts in the league (by a considerable amount) with 314 attempts. However, they’ve only scored 24 goals, which means they’ll score once every 13 attempts (approximately).
The team with the lowest goals-per-attempt (GPA) ratio is Sydney FC, who score once around every six shots.
Other teams with good GPA ratios are the Central Coast (6.81) and Melbourne Victory (7.8).
The Wanderers have the highest (worst) ratio, followed by Perth (12.55), Wellington (9.42) and Brisbane (9.37). The lower the score inferences that the team does a good job of turning opportunities into goals (not necessarily they have high amounts of either).
Defensively, Sydney FC have committed the most fouls (17.4 fouls per game) with Western Sydney second (15.9) and Melbourne Heart third (15.5).
The Central Coast Mariners have the fewest fouls with only 10.7 fouls per game and, interestingly, also the least goals allowed (14) while Sydney have the most conceded (40).
Sydney also has the most saves (70) while the Central Coast the least with less than half of that (34).
In other statistical categories, Melbourne Victory has been called for offside the most (69 times) followed by Perth (66) and Wellington (61). Newcastle is very rarely offside (29 times).
Bottom of the league team Perth has won the most corners (131, which makes you wonder how they’ve only scored 20 times when you can guarantee the ball can be played into the box 131 times), then Wellington with 118 corners and Western Sydney with 116 – the three teams with the lowest goals scored have the highest corners taken.
Sydney have taken the least corners with only 77.
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