The CIES Football Observatory has partnered with the leading football data company InStat to analyse the performance of teams across Europe. Issue number 217 of the Weekly Post lists the 100 clubs from 31 competitions with the best ratios between shots taken and conceded from the box during the current domestic league season. Porto ranks first ahead of Ludogorets and Crvena Zvezda.

Porto attempted 3.79 more shots from the opponents’ box than those conceded from its own box. The best ratios in the five major European leagues were measured for Napoli (2.93), Manchester City (2.87), Paris St-Germain (2.73), Bayern Munich (2.47) and Liverpool (2.23). Surprisingly, Real Madrid (2.10) outranks Barcelona (1.82). This finding suggests that Zidane’s side was particularly unlucky at domestic league level so far this season.

The top 50 lists of the best performing clubs from 35 European leagues for defence, possession and attack are available on the CIES Football Observatory website. For more information about InStat data and additional analysis requests, please contact us at football.observatory@cies.ch.

Ratio between shots attempted [A] and conceded [B] from the box

Domestic league matches played from 01/07/2017 to 20/02/2018

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31 leagues covered: AUT, BEL, BUL, CRO, CZE, DEN, ENG, ENG/D2, ESP, ESP/D2, FRA, FRA/D2, GER, GER/D2, GRE, HUN, ISR, ITA, ITA/D2, NED, POL, POR, ROM, RUS, SCO, SRB, SUI, SVK, SVN, TUR and UKR

CIES Football Observatory

Editors : Raffaele Poli, Roger Besson and Loïc Ravenel

Contact : football.observatory@cies.ch