{"id":14578,"date":"2017-07-27T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=14578"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:48:50","slug":"the-young-lions-the-story-of-defending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2017\/07\/the-young-lions-the-story-of-defending\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Lions: The Story of Defending"},"content":{"rendered":"
When thinking about the statistics I thought I would find when writing this blog, I figured goal times would be telling. It made sense to me that most of our goals conceded would come late on in each half. They did not. Just one goal all (league) season was conceded past 90 minutes. In fact, most goals came between 46 and 60 minutes. Not by much though, not enough to draw a correlation between. Perhaps then, by goal type. Most goals are scored by a placed shot. Maybe we would concede a lot of headers, or give away dangerous free kicks or penalties. Yet we did not. The numbers are actually on our side. We conceded five headed goals. Not bad for a side with average jumping reach and below average strength. Our heading is way below average too.<\/p>\n