Posts Categorized: goals

Watch Gareth Bale’s 31 Goals And Decide Which Is The Best

Watch all 31 goals that Gareth Bale has scored for Tottenham and Wales during the past season and decide which is the best goal that he has scored for Spurs.   Gareth Bale has scored 26 goals for Spurs this season. Twenty one were scored in the Premier League making him the 3rd highest scorer [...]

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Thor’s Hammer: Chelsea 2-2 Tottenham Tactical Analysis

When I have a son, I’ll be able to tell him all about Tottenham’s history. One day, I might tell him about these two players that used to be on that White Hart Lane turf. One was this useless, lanky striker. He walked around the pitch like he was looking for a toothpick in the [...]

Time for a striker to Step Up for Spurs | Defoe & Adebayor Stats

With only eight games left to go in the fight for a top four finish in the Premier League, Tottenham will be hoping that one of their strikers can find a bit of form to help them with their pursuit. There is no denying that both Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor have struggled this term [...]

Time for a striker to Step Up for Spurs | Defoe & Adebayor Stats

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How To Get A Togolese Scoring Again: An Ade Case Study

In his pre-match media call before Tottenham’s Europa League away match with Lyon, Andre Villas-Boas once again waxed lyrical about the need to get the club’s highest earner back to his best. “We’re trying to unlock the best of Adebayor. Last year shows as an example of what we’re trying to get out of him… The [...]

Goal Involvement | Which of the Top Goal Scorers are involved in most goals?

There have been some interesting statistics on Twitter of late about “Goal Involved” in. This is when you combine the goals and assists of a player and create a percentage over the team’s total goals. It’s an interesting statistic that can show a variety of attributes for teams and players. Firstly it can show how [...]

Goal Involvement | Which of the Top Goal Scorers are involved in most goals?

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How Have Sides Fared Against Top and Bottom Half Teams So Far?

This article looks at how well each Premier League team has fared against the teams in the top half and the bottom half of the league this season. We take a look at which teams have taken the most points against the teams in the top half, as well as wh…

Spurs 3-0 Coventry: FA Cup Highlights

Although you couldn’t find live coverage of Spurs’s 3-0 FA cup win over Coventry to save your life this weekend, at least console yourself with a short highlight reel of their goals. Two from Dempsey and one from Bale in the first half ensured Spurs cruised to victory. Several key players were rested, including Lloris, [...]

Brilliant Bale Destroys Villa | Player Stats Analysis

On the back of an 8-0 drubbing from Chelsea on the weekend before Christmas, Aston Villa’s youngsters can’t have been looking forward to the prospect of facing Tottenham’s Gareth Bale running at them. The Welshman was in scintillating form as Spurs ran riot, inflicting another heavy defeat on the midlands team. Bale seems to enjoy [...]

Brilliant Bale Destroys Villa | Player Stats Analysis

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Deadly Defoe at the Double | Premier League Striker Stats Comparison

On Saturday afternoon at Craven Cottage, a brace for Defoe took him to four goals in a week and his tally for the season up to 9. Aside from the goals, Defoe had a relatively quiet game, making just 14 passes in the entire 90 minutes. Defoe is a player…

An analysis of every Premier League goal and assist of 2011/12 | Tactics

The following analysis is simply to illustrate exactly where goals were scored from on the pitch and where each and every assist came from during the 2011/12 English Premier League season. The conclusions that can be drawn from the following are useful…

The Importance of Adebayor | Stats Comparison of Strikers From Top 6

With two weeks to go until Tottenham face their season opener up at Newcastle, to say we are lightweight up front is an understatement. The only recognised strikers on the books are Jermain Defoe and the youngster Harry Kane. While [...]Written by Matt…

Should Aaron Lennon Have Made the England Squad? Opta Stats

When Roy Hodgson announced his England squad last week there were a number of surprises. Most surprising for me and I am sure a number of England fans was the inclusion of Stewart Downing. This is a player who famously [...]Written by Matt SwanShould A…

Is crossing still an effectively used strategy in the Premier League?

“The game has changed!” How many times have you heard, particularly from the ex-pros, this statement? There’s no doubt that some ways and forms of modern-day élite football has changed. You only have to look into the life of a [...]Written by Cr…

Premier League Goal Scoring Patterns

Our statistical expert Ford Bohrmann analyses Premier League goal scoring patterns by looking at which areas of the goal teams score in. The article focuses on every Premier League side and then also covers their conversion percentages with the use […..