That five goal at Mansfield does feel like a massive outlier now. Games we've scored more than once this season:
Rochdale H 3-0
Sutton H 3-2
Grimsby A 2-1
Hartlepool H 2-1
Mansfield A 5-2
23 other games with one goal or none - 12 one goal, 11 none. That's including all three cups* for 28 games.
Back of an envelope maths says we score 1.5 goals or more (in the bookies terms) in about 18% of our games.
I'm not much of a football tactics bod, but I think you'd have to say that is fucking dreadful.
* Maybe best not to include the cups, as we played 5 games which we lost on aggregate 1-14.
On the subject of stats I found these quite interesting (if you are into stats as I obviously am
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I know its stats, stats and more stats...but
We are 1st/24 with the highest number of shots in L2 on 312 with Stevenage 2nd/24 with 279.
We have only 33.3% of our shots on target in L2 13th/24, Grimsby and Tranmere are top with 37.4%.
When it comes to goals per shot its only 0.08 leaving us 19th/24.
Goals per shot on target is 0.23% leaving us 22nd/24 with only Sutton and Gills worse than us.
We are bang in the middle of players used in L2 having used 24 players with Stevenage only using 20 players so far but Crawley using a huge 30 players.
We have the 3rd lowest average age of players used on 25.3 with Crewe the youngest on 24.8 and Mansfield the oldest playing squad at 28.9.
We are 21st/24 on fouls committed on 217 fouls, Donny are lowest on 189 but AFC Wimbledon have committed 309 fouls.
Yet we are 2nd/24 for yellow cards with 47 with Wimbledon top with 53 yellows. Also only Stockport (5) and Bradford(3) and Crawley(3) have had more reds than us with 2.
We are 3rd/24 for the number of crosses with 429, Mansfield(1) have 486 and Stockport(2) 442.
