For a team that wants to get results, taking the chances created is the key to getting the three points, and the team that misses them will always be punished. We often refer to the phenomenon of those great chances not scoring as "happy football", with players such as Raheem Sterling and Timo Werner as representatives of "happy football", we can always see those famous scenes of empty goals and single goal, 2023 is coming to an end, and the Premier League schedule is also halfway completed, let's take a look at which Premier League team is at the top of the list of missed chances this season.
In this season's Premier League, Chelsea was given high hopes at the beginning of the season under the crazy buying of the Boehly consortium, but only ranked tenth after the halfway, the number of losses was the same as the number of wins, the team introduced a lot of demons who have not fully proven their strength but have great potential, but too many semi-finished products make it difficult for the team to produce results, the team has repeatedly dominated the field, and finally lost the game because of one or two mistakes, the team's center Jacquesson and Broja (just left on loan) can be called "Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chick", Fans will be stunned by their repeated contributions, and it will be interesting to see how Chelsea really rank on the list.
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Here are the statistics of SofaScore in professional data.
Top Chance Missed Scoring Leaderboard (club name, number of missed chances).
Liverpool 43 times.
Chelsea 42 times.
Newcastle United 42 times.
Everton 42 times.
Brentford 41 times.
Brighton 40 times.
Aston Villa 38 times.
Manchester City 35 times.
Arsenal 33 times.
Tottenham Hotspur 32 times.
Manchester United 31 times.
West Ham 29.
Wolverhampton Wanderers 23 times.
Sheffield United 23 times.
Nottingham Forest 22 times.
Bournemouth 22 times.
Burnley 20 times.
Fulham 18 times.
Luton Town 18 times.
Crystal Palace 17 times.
As we expected, Chelsea are second only to Liverpool in the number of great scoring opportunities missed, with a total of 42, including Jacquesson, the most effective program in the Premier League this season, who contributed 12 times, while "Happy Boy" Raheem Sterling and Mr. Enzo Fernandez contributed 7 and 6 times respectively, and the overall outrageous performance of the attacking line put the current manager Pochettino in dire straits, Pochettino has experienced two unsuccessful years in charge of Grand Paris, and urgently needs to coach a new team to prove himself. And this season he has trained the offensive line and backline to be difficult to be satisfied with.
Jacquesson was given high hopes after joining Chelsea, once dubbed Chelsea's 'new Drogba', but his performances were simply unattainable, despite having seven league goals, a staggering 12 missed chances, and Jacquesson's total expected goals tally reached 1059 times, far greater than his actual goals, shows his poor finishing skills, and he joined Chelsea this summer for a transfer fee of 37 million euros, which is a lot of money, and thanks to the outrageous performances of Jacquesson and Armando Broja, Chelsea must make the front line do better.
Chelsea have had a number of notable scenes in attack this season, including the peak against Wolves, Jacquesson, Armando Broja and Raheem Sterling each contributing unimaginable meals, while Thiago Silva's age this season has led to a significant decline in form, the team's other centre-backs Disasi and Badiashile have been embarrassed, and Fofana has suffered another major injury, resulting in Chelsea's terrible attack and defence, the following GIF is a microcosm of Chelsea's season.
Among the other teams at the top of the list, Newcastle United are joint second with 36 missed chances, Newcastle United have recently suffered a very dismal record, the team has also fallen from the Champions League place at the beginning of the season to eighth place, the team's strikers Karim Wilson and Anthony Gordon have missed more than 5 great chances, Almiron, who broke out last season, is also in very average form this season, and the team's captain Kieran Trippier has repeatedly made major mistakes in the game, which has caused the team to struggle now. The previous double-front battles and too many injuries also made the players very tired, and I don't know if Newcastle will be able to adjust their form and return to the European competition in the future.
In the top 10 of the list of missed scoring opportunities, the "big6" teams occupy 5 seats on the list, most of these giants are advocating offensive football, the number of chances created and the number of missed chances are a lot, and only Manchester United, which is not on the list, has played all the offense and defense under the leadership of Ten Hag this season (in fact, as long as it is a deep defense), resulting in not enough opportunities created, and the number of missed opportunities has also reduced the number of other giants, Manchester United has only scored 28 goals this season, which is at the bottom of the top ten teams, I don't know if Manchester United will be able to show something new in the "Ten Hag era" in the back game.
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