Tag: Everton stats

• October 5, 2014

  David De Gea – The Premier League’s Premier Shot-Stopper

  Goalkeepers are under ever more fan and media scrutiny these days. A slip from Joe Hart against Roma overshadowed an otherwise impeccable performance midweek while a segment from Carragher and Neville on Monday Night Football tore into Tim Howard and Simon Mignolet for the derby goals they conceded. Everton travel to Old Trafford today facing…
• September 27, 2014

  The Defenceless Derby

  Everton have conceded 13 goals from 20 shots on target. That really takes some doing. Here’s how it looks visually (I resisted the urge to scribble wildly on a bit of paper). Yellow dots are shots that ended up in the net, blue dots are shots that Howard saved: Using my expected goal model I…