Goals for in the PL Era - A meaningless analysis

[Philw]

Funny you should mention that, there's been some analysis done on ToffeeWeb which shows that if Rom had been playing centre forward in the 05/06 team then we'd likely have won the league.

http://toffeeweb.com/season/16-17/news/34806.html

Will I ever learn. .

Expected better from Woolly tbh :|

If it'd been Chico on the other hand...

 

[MrGrumpy]

So, another four goals today, to add to the four we scored against Hull, the six against Bournemouth, the four we put past City, not to mention ( though I'm just about to ), the three we put past WBA, Soton, Boro and S'land means we appear to be scoring for fun this season.

To put this into context, since football was invented by Sky back in 1992, our best "Goals For" columns have been :-

• 1995/96 : 64
• 2013/14 : 61
• 2009/10 : 60
• 1999/00 : 59
• 2015/16 : 59
• 2016/17 : 57 ( to date, after 32 matches ).

So, with six games to go, we look on course to beat the 2013/14 number, and the "all time" (or, at least the version of "all time" that Murdoch's minions recognise ) record isn't out of reach.

Those of us of a certain age, can cast our minds back to the 95/96 season when a certain Andrei Kanchelskis

was playing in Royal Blue and knocking in goals on a regular basis ( Sixteen if memory serves me right, if not I'm blaming google ) with a little help from the now slightly portly club ambassador Graham Stuart who chipped in with nine. I really only mention this to justify posting a pic of Kanchelskis, and, in case Graham reads this, I'll throw one in of him too, though it's sized to reflect the fact his lesser goal scoring prowess that season

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Admittedly, the "Goals for" column means Jack Wotsit if we don't win anything, which, given the seventh place trophy carries no weight in the honours rating happens to be the case this season and yes, we're relying a lot on Lukaku, a fact which David-K has highlighted at https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/are-we-a-one-man-team.95387/ so, other than acknowledging that Lukaku's improvement this season is partly down to him maturing and partly down to us playing to his strength, lets not go down that road again.


However, we, under Koeman's team of coaches seem to have found a balance between neat, possession football and actually penetrating ( ooo err missus ) other teams defences, which is nice. But OK, there's already a Koeman thread over at https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/ronald-koeman-discussion.89131/

So, if you're going to Goodison for either Burnley or Watford games and now expect us to score a hatful of goals against, so called, weaker opposition and end up watching a dreary 0-0 draw then feel free to blame me, but I'm not arsed.

Why have I typed this gubbins you might ask, or you might not. Well, it's purely to give any stattos ( or however you spell that ) amongst us something to watch for, so here's a TL;DR

TL;DR ?

• Four more goals equals our second best tally in the PL Era
• Unsurprisingly, five more goals would better it
• Seven more goals would equal our best ever tally and ...
• There are no prizes for guessing how many goals we need to beat it

Don't mention the 72 points ffs

Great post with great stats, what's our all time PL GD though? Do we think it will be + or -

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Interesting that we had a +22 goal differential in 2013/2014 and this season we're currently at +23.

Were we lucky in Martinez's first year or unlucky this year? We're still 15 points behind where we ended up in 2014 (72 pts).

There were a few one-goal wins driven by free kicks or freak goals, like Seamus' scuffed winner vs. Cardiff, so you could say we rode our luck a bit that season. Baines had more free kick goals in the game at Upton Park (2) than we have all of this season to date (1).

 

[Khalekan]

That 05/06 season we had 1 goal in our first 8 games and didn't score multiple times in a match until December. Yikes

Holy mother of God.....how did we not get relegated

 

[Mekias]

Great post with great stats, what's our all time PL GD though? Do we think it will be + or -

We're currently at +23 goal differential.

Going back to 2001/2002, our best GD has been:

2013/2014: +22 - Ended in 5th with 72 points
2007/2008: +22 - Ended in 5th with 65 points

Interestingly, our best finish in 2004/2005 when we ended up in 4th, we only had a -1 goal differential.

 

[a bell maul]

We're currently at +23 goal differential.

Going back to 2001/2002, our best GD has been:

2013/2014: +22 - Ended in 5th with 72 points
2007/2008: +22 - Ended in 5th with 65 points

Interestingly, our best finish in 2004/2005 when we ended up in 4th, we only had a -1 goal differential.

...that's extraordinary!

 

[tommye]

...that's extraordinary!

You need to get out more...

 

[zirc]

we also got 4th with only 61 points, which most years gets you 6th at most.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Great post with great stats, what's our all time PL GD though? Do we think it will be + or -

Mekias has got this ...

We're currently at +23 goal differential.

Going back to 2001/2002, our best GD has been:

2013/2014: +22 - Ended in 5th with 72 points
2007/2008: +22 - Ended in 5th with 65 points

Interestingly, our best finish in 2004/2005 when we ended up in 4th, we only had a -1 goal differential.

 

[WycombeToffee]

There were a few one-goal wins driven by free kicks or freak goals, like Seamus' scuffed winner vs. Cardiff, so you could say we rode our luck a bit that season. Baines had more free kick goals in the game at Upton Park (2) than we have all of this season to date (1).

Baines still hasn't scored a free kick since that West Ham game.

 

[a bell maul]

You need to get out more...

...with my camera, around L4

 

[tommye]

...with my camera, around L4

If that's what appeals to you then why not.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Nothing to report this weekend.
Koff Everton.

 

[RomanReigns]

i'd like to think we could at least put 4 past watford

 

[marsh]

Boooooooo