Have Liverpool become more clinical?

One thing that let Liverpool down last season was their inability to turn shots into goals. They would go whole games dominating possession, having up to 5 times as many shots as the opposition and still coming away with a loss or a draw. Liverpool brought in Fabio Borini who scored 9 goals in 24 appearances for Roma to improve their luck in front of goal, did it work?

I have decided to analyse the data from the first 5 games of this season and compare them to the first 5 games of last season to see whether Liverpool had become more clinical in front of goal.

                                                                                                                    

Liverpool have actually had twelve more shots on goal in the opening 5 games of this season than they did last season and 50.6% of shots this season have been on target compared to 40.3% last season.

Does this mean they are more clinical? Well no as by this point last season Liverpool had scored 6 goals compared to the 4 they have scored this season. That means that at the moment 5% of their shots are goals and at this stage of last season it was 9%.

So are Liverpool more clinical?

Liverpool are getting into more shooting positions and having more shots on target but unfortunately they still aren’t getting the goals. This could be due to the fact that they don’t have an out and out goal scorer, something they have been lacking since Torres’ departure, Brendan Rodgers should look to bring in a striker in the next transfer window.

Liverpool had a tough start to their season and hopefully their increase in shots on target will bring them more goals.

Sports Nerd Out!

(This is my first blog post so please feel free to comment with your views and constructive criticism)