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Apr 26, 2024 · Opta defines ‘winning goals’ as “the goal that makes the difference,” so if a team wins 5-0, it would be the goal that made it 1-0, or if the result were 4-2, it would be the third goal ...
Jul 21, 2022 · Identifying ‘Clutch’ Players: Goalscorers. July 21, 2022. POSTED BY Analytics FC. Alex Stewart revisits the ‘clutch’ topic and looks at last season’s goalscorers who delivered when it mattered most. Back in 2019, Analytics FC Managing Director Jeremy Steele wrote a piece exploring the concept of ‘clutch’ goal scorers. As Jeremy ...
- Divock Origi. One recent Premier League player who always helped their team when it mattered is ex-Liverpool man Divock Origi. The striker left Liverpool in June 2022, but not without some clutch goals that helped Liverpool reach the Champions League final!
- Mario Balotelli. Our next player is another ex-Liverpool man – I promise it won’t be all Liverpool – Mario Balotelli. The Italian man only scored four goals while at Liverpool, but three of those goals helped Liverpool break the ties after the 80 in the game and helped pick up all three points.
- Alvaro Morata. A super sub that has been surprisingly a clutch football player throughout his playing career is Alvaro Morata. In games that he has played in coming off the bench between the season 2013-14 and 2016-17, he scored 20 times in 1,250 minutes, with 11 of the goals coming after the 80 minute.
- Marcus Rashford. Marcus Rashford has performed under pressure for his boyhood club, Manchester United, making him enter our list of clutch players. The English international has scored more 90th-minute winners in the Premier League than any other Manchester United player in the competition’s history.
Tennant, a 6-foot-5 senior from Shawnee, lifted the Wildcats to a thrilling 29-27 victory over the Jayhawks by making arguably the biggest play of the night.. It was without a doubt the biggest ...
- Methodology
- The Data: The English Premier League
- The Data: Young Talent Around Europe
- The Data: The English Football League
- Conclusion
How should we measure a creator’s ability ‘in the clutch’, then? Our data-scouting platform, TransferLab, features a ‘clutch’ metric. We use the name ‘Assist Importance’ for this metric but it refers to the same thing. ‘Assist Importance’ expresses the points added from a player’s assist for a goal based on two variables: time of assist/goal and sc...
With a filter set to a minimum of 1000 minutes played, here are the top performers for ‘Assist Importance’ from last season’s Premier League: Unsurprisingly, many of the top assisters in the league are featured in the list. Harry Kane was the highest provider of assists in the Premier League last season with 14 assists and his rank of third in the ...
Changing up the search filters a little, here are the top performers in Europe’s Big 5 Leagues Under the age of 23: Again, many of the players featured here are not surprising: Borna Sosa’s 9 assists were instrumental to VfB Stuttgart’s strong season, Jadon Sancho was in the top 10 assisters in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund, and we already ...
Finally, here are the top performers in the English Football League (EFL)in 20/21 according to Assist Importance: It might seem a little strange to see this list topped by a centre back from Swindon Town. But when you find out Tom Broadbent assisted two stoppage time winners, it makes a lot more sense. It’s also notable that Harvey Elliott and Mich...
As we have seen, looking at ‘Assist Importance’ can show some interesting differences to simply looking at which players produced the greatest volume of assists or expected assists. This metric is one of many within TransferLab which looks to bring further insight to a player’s value to their team. To find out more about TransferLab, why not sign u...
Feb 11, 2021 · Not only that, but 15% of his overall production -- 18 of his 119 goals and assists -- came in these situations, including his only assist of the 2011-12 season, and one of the most famous assists ...
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Jun 19, 2024 · A more clutch situation, one late in the game when the game is close -- the same situation as above but midway through the fourth quarter, for example -- has a clutch index of about 2.0. Maximum clutch indices are about 3.0, and minimum indices are about 0.3. That is an enormous weight to assign to late-game situations.
