Stats for last season

[King Binny]

 

[Rosco]

Weird.

We make lots of tackles, but very few blocks and interceptions.

 

[RedStar]

Our percentage of shots to goals is pretty low too which suggests we are either shooting wildly from ridiculous situations or we are missing alot of easy chances, probably both to be fair

 

[King Binny]

Most shots on target

1. Luis Suarez – 103
2. Gareth Bale – 101
3. Robin van Persie – 78
4. Santi Cazorla – 78
5. Christian Benteke – 73
6. Demba Ba – 70
7. Jermain Defoe – 64
8. Carlos Tevez – 63
9. Theo Walcott – 61
10. Steven Gerrard – 56

Most passes in opposition half

1. Santi Cazorla – 1463
2. Yaya Toure – 1301
3. Mikel Arteta – 1230
4. David Silva – 1150
5. Juan Mata – 1138
6. Michael Carrick – 1109
7. Steven Gerrard – 1062
8. Steven Pienaar – 1006
9. Shaun Maloney – 940
10. James McCarthy – 937

Most dribbles

1. Eden Hazard – 56
2. Luis Suarez – 55
3. Gareth Bale – 48
4. Adel Taarabt – 46
5. Stephane Sessegnon – 44
6. Andros Townsend – 41
7. Aaron Lennon – 40
8. Arouna Kone – 38
9. Hatem Ben Arfa – 38
10. Sergio Aguero – 36

Most crosses

1. Robert Snodgrass – 148
2. Leighton Baines – 145
3. Gareth Bale – 117
4. Jean Beausejour – 117
5. Adam Johnson – 103
6. Steven Gerrard – 92
7. Juan Mata – 87
8. Matthew Jarvis – 83
9. Jobi McAnuff – 72
10. Anthony Pilkington – 70

Most tackles won

1. Morgan Schneiderlin – 89
2. Matthew Lowton – 86
3. Jan Vertonghen – 81
4. Nathaniel Clyne – 81
5. James McClean – 80
6. Leiva Lucas – 78
7. Pablo Zabaleta – 73
8. Mikele Leigertwood – 73
9. Leighton Baines – 72
10. Glen Johnson – 72

Most clearances

1. Jonas Olsson – 86
2. Brede Hangeland – 85
3. Sebastian Bassong – 83
4. Gareth McAuley – 81
5. John O’Shea – 80
6. Ron Vlaar – 63
7. Clint Hill – 59
8. James Collins – 56
9. Ashley Williams – 56
10. Ryan Shawcross – 53

Most blocks

1. Ashley Williams – 49
2. Ryan Shawcross – 43
3. Adrian Mariappa – 40
4. Brede Hangeland – 38
5. James Collins – 38
6. Jonas Olsson – 36
7. Ciaran Clark – 31
8. Gary Cahill – 30
9. Clint Hill – 29
10. Ryan Nelsen – 29

Most saves

1. Simon Mignolet – 234
2. Brad Guzan – 224
3. Mark Schwarzer – 220
4. Petr Cech – 200
5. Asmir Begovic – 198
6. Jussi Jaaskelainen – 192
7. Ben Foster – 167
8. Tim Howard – 156
9. Ali Al Habsi – 140
10. Julio Cesar – 138

 

[Whirly]

Is there a Most Shots Taken stat to go with that?

 

[Dreambeliever]

So Glenjo isn't worth bolding then?

 

[Dreambeliever]

And basically we suck at any part of defending bar tackling.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Most shots on target

1. Luis Suarez – 103
2. Gareth Bale – 101
3. Robin van Persie – 78
4. Santi Cazorla – 78
5. Christian Benteke – 73
6. Demba Ba – 70
7. Jermain Defoe – 64
8. Carlos Tevez – 63
9. Theo Walcott – 61
10. Steven Gerrard – 56​

But...

Goals to shots on target: (just taking a few of the better ones; not sure if these are the best ones for, say, those scoring 10 goals and more).
Michu: 18 / 34
Mata: 12 / 24
Lampard: 15 / 31
Berbatov: 15 / 35
Lukaku: 20 / 47

 

[King Binny]

So Glenjo isn't worth bolding then?

 

[King Binny]

Is there a Most Shots Taken stat to go with that?

Sorry mate, haven't got the fully ranked list but according to the goalscorers list:

Gareth Bale 158
Luis Suarez 143
Robin van Persie 132
Demba Ba 119
Santi Carzola 113
Christian Benteke 105
Jermaine Defore 103
Michu 101
Rickie Lambert 92
Romelu Lukaku 86
Steven Gerrard, Theo Walcott 85
Edin Dzeko 82
Sergio Aguero 80
Marouane Fellaini 79
Dimitar Berbativ, Wayne Rooney 77
Frank Lampard 72
Juan Mata 63
Fernando Torres 58
Steven Fletcher 49
Adam Le Fondre 46

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Sorry mate, haven't got the ranked list but according to the top goalscorers list:

Luis Suarez 143
Gareth Bale 112
Robin van Persie 108
Demba Ba 86
Michu 84
Christian Benteke, Rickie Lambert 67

Something wrong with the Benteke stat - he has 67 total shots here, but 73 shots on target in the previous post.

 

[King Binny]

Something wrong with the Benteke stat - he has 67 total shots here, but 73 shots on target in the previous post.

Cheers mate, updated.

 

[King Binny]

http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwic...he_best_value_in_the_premier_league_1_2237484

Analysts at Football Observatory have worked out exactly how much each point won by top-flight teams last season cost them to earn.

The Swiss research centre used the fees paid for all players on the books of every top-flight club, whenever they were brought in – and seeing Norwich’s cost of assembling last season’s squad coming in at £21.38m. Only Reading’s (£15.5m) was cheaper to assemble.

And that in turn brought the conclusion that each point last season cost City under £500,000 – the cheapest in the Premier League, and a figure dwarfed by some of their top-flight rivals.

While City finished the season 11th – a one-place improvement on the previous season – Chelsea’s third place cost them nearly £5m per point. That’s a lot of money when you are clocking 75 points over the course of the season.

Manchester City and Liverpool were not far behind in the inefficiency stakes, with the former’s fees of £375.74m topping the table.

The same could not be said of their points tally, of course. Manchester United’s 11-point dominance in taking the Premier League title was achieved more than £1.5m per point cheaper than their city rivals.

West Brom, Swansea and West Ham – like Norwich – kept the cost of each point below £1m; as did Reading, albeit dropping out of the top flight in the process.

But the picture was far from pretty for relegated Queens Park Rangers, whose paltry 25 points were earned by a squad that cost £66.58m. That figures doesn’t include wages, leaving each point costing £2.66m.

Whether Norwich’s record £8.5m outlay for Ricky van Wolfswinkel signals the boat being pushed out a little bit further for the 2013-14 season remains to be seen, but City’s financial prudence was not a one-season wonder.

The 2011-12 season had City recorded as the lowest wage payers in the Premier League, at an average of £1.01m per year per player – working out at £19,434 per week.

To put the figure in perspective, fellow newly promoted Swansea were next (£1.02m, £19,654) while Queens Park Rangers were already shelling out an average weekly wage of £32,569.

That season’s Premier League champions were the only side to smash the astonishing six-figure mark for a player’s weekly wage, with an annual average of £5.24m working out at £100,765 per week.

Those big figures are likely to have increased for each of the established top-flight clubs last season, and are almost certain to rise again for the 2013-14 campaign – possibly by a significant amount given clubs’ major boost in income from their new television deal, raising the minimum TV income from £40m to £60m per club.

Hughton's continued his good work from Newcastle and Birmingham.

 

[King Binny]

Despite Chelsea playing 69 games last season – more than any other Premier League club – they picked up just 16 significant injuries while competing in the Premier League, World Club Championship, FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. Most Chelsea players also played international matches for their countries.

Chelsea have reaped the rewards of investing heavily in fitness and employing a number of the secrets from AC Milan’s MilanLab, a legacy from former Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti’s time with the club. Conditioning coaches at the club hold training programmes designed to extend the careers of ageing players such as Frank Lampard and John Terry.

Former Liverpool head of sports medicine Peter Brukner, told Sportingintelligence: “There are a lot of factors that can influence injury rates. These include the number of games played, the type of training and the age of the players.

“If players have to regularly play twice a week then they are more likely to be injured. Those clubs with greater depth in their squads, who can afford to rotate players and reduce the game load, should be in a better position to reduce injuries.

“Chelsea and Liverpool, two clubs which had significantly lower injury rates than other top clubs last season, have also invested heavily in their medical and fitness staff in the past few seasons, allocating more resources and recruiting high quality staff. One thing for certain is that injuries play a major role in determining titles and relegation.”

The average number of injuries per club increased significantly last season to 24.4 days, up from 20.5 days in 2011-12, a 20 per cent rise across the Premier League.

“There is a culture among Premier League clubs of not asking players to do anything they don’t want to do,’ Bruknew says.

“As the speed of games and demands on players become greater, the challenge for club fitness staff is to convince players and management that a little time and effort spent on prevention will be more than worthwhile by the end of the season.”

 

[red_maradona]

thanks, wigan looked to have suffered a lot in light of the % change

 

[Mors]

I read somewhere that we had more shots on goal last season than any team in the top 5 leagues in Europe.
If we can convert a few more of those next season with our new players, instead of rolling them straight at the keeper, we'll be laughing easy in the top 4.

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

I read somewhere that we had more shots on goal last season than any team in the top 5 leagues in Europe.
If we can convert a few more of those next season with our new players, instead of rolling them straight at the keeper, we'll be laughing easy in the top 4.

Where were those shots from though?

 

[Whirly]

Main injuries were Kelly, Borini, and Lucas I think. Important players, but not as significant as losing Suarez/Agger/Gerrard/etc

I think we were very lucky in terms of injuries still, considering very few key players missed time.

 

[juniormember]

We lost Sterling (half a season) and Sturridge (several games) as well.

 

[Whirly]

We lost Sterling (half a season) and Sturridge (several games) as well.

Sterling was more of a role player than a key player for us.

Sturridge only missed a couple weeks iirc. Not really significant time. I think he missed 3-4 matches maximum.

 

[King Binny]

http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article/injury-stats-901653.aspx

Swansea City’s medical team has hit the top of the charts for the lowest number of injuries in the Barclays Premier League last season.

The Swans were among the top performers, and were way out in front in a number of categories, when it came to injury prevention, performance and recovery.

For the last two years the medical staff at almost every Barclays Premier League club has been providing injury, match and training data to the league as part of a research study.

Injury stats are released to the research study group by the club every month, including the number of training hours, game time, injuries and other relevant stats.

The club then receives a mid-season and end of season report comparing clubs to each other and the Premier League average. And the final report of the 2012-13 campaign made impressive reading from the Swans’ point of view. Here is a brief overview:

Training Exposure: The Swans completed more training sessions than any other PL club. They trained on average 22.2 sessions per month. The PL average was 17.5 sessions, while the lowest was 14.5 sessions.

Training To Match Ratio: Highest in the PL. Some clubs may play more games than others, such as in the Europa League, but this category averages out the findings alongside the number of training sessions.

Training Injury Incidents: Second lowest in PL.

Match Injury Incidents: Third lowest in PL.

Average Days Absence From Training & Match Injuries: Well below PL average.

Severe Injury Incidents: Lowest in PL.

Soft-Tissue Injuries: Joint-lowest in PL.

Re-injury Rate: Lowest in PL.

“As a medical team, we are delighted at the statistics,’’ explained Swansea City’s Head of Medical, Kate Rees.

“Since the current medical staff teamed up at the club our injury statistics have improved year on year, which is very encouraging considering the number of personnel changes involving managers, coaches and training methods we’ve experienced in recent seasons.

“Michael Laudrup is very understanding and supportive of the work we do, which is very important because it shows he has faith in what we are advising and trying to achieve.

“For example, Michu was suffering a bit on the first day of training in Holland with his quad muscle and he agreed for us to keep him out of the next session so that we could work on him back at the hotel. It meant he returned to full training the following day and played in the second friendly.

“The recent stats are a pat on the back to everyone involved from the medical and sports science departments through to the coaching staff and players.’’

Richie Buchanan, the club’s rehabilitation physio, added: “As far as the medical team is concerned, one of the most important stats involves the re-injury rate.

“The fact that we are the lowest in the Premier League is extremely encouraging as it highlights we are taking care of the players during their rehabilitation and they are ready to return to action at the right time.’’

The recent move to the club’s new training ground at Landore has also proved a massive boost.

“I think the facilities on offer at Landore will help us even more,’’ added Kate. “To have everything in one place for the first time could prove vital.

“It made all the pre-season fitness testing at the start of the week so much easier and of a better quality. Sometimes all the hanging about can be a bit laborious for the players, but this time it was a pleasure to do.

“It will also enable us to work more closely with the Academy set-up. The club has expanded the Academy medical team over the last 12 months and it is something we will continue to work on.

“We have already noticed that the young boys who have stepped up to the senior squad this season are in much better physical shape than previous years.

“They are much better prepared to become professional footballers and first-team players.’’

But despite the stats fillip, the medical team know they are going to have their work cut out over the next few months to cope with the domestic league and cup campaigns, plus the additional Europa League quest.

Richie added: “We have a massive challenge ahead of us, especially if we proceed to the group stage and beyond in the Europa League. But it’s an exciting challenge that we are all looking forward to.’’

Although the club figures are gathered anonymously, the Sporting Intelligence website has gathered some of the data and compiled a club-by-club injury chart.

It is available HERE