Why Soccer analysis?

Today, soccer is considered one of the most popular sports in the world. There are abundant major soccer tournaments, such as the World Cup, The Euro Cup, Champions League, Copa America, Asian Cup, and the Africa Nations Cups. Each major tournaments bring huge joy to soccer fans around the world. Among so many soccer league in different countries, England’s Premier League is the most popular and competitive soccer league in the world. Many star players from different countries and twenty two teams compete each other to become the league’s champion and each team plays 38 games in a season. This analysis is based on 2020-2021 English Premier Leauge and it will provide an information about soccer.

First, I will be creating a graph to check which soccer clubs scored the most in English Premier League during 2020-2021 season.

By creating graph, I was able to confirm that Manchester City was the club that scored the most goals in English Premier League during 2020-2021 season.

Since there are different positions in soccer, this graph will show what positions made the most goals.

Next, I will create a graph that shows if playing times affects the number of goals.

Now, this graph will analyze which age groups scored the most.

This graph proves that age group between 25 and 30 is the group that made the most goals among different age groups. I can conclude that players in Premier League are reaching their career high in age 25 to 30.

Now, i know that players who are between 25 years old to 30 years old scored the most goals. Then i want to analyze who scored the most among the English players since Premier League in in England League.

By creating this graph, I confirmed that Harry Kane was the top scorer.

Since I checked Harry Kane was the English players who scored the most, then i will create a graph that shows who scored the most among all players in Premier League.

Again, Harry Kane was the top scorer among all players in Premier League and Mohamed Salah was placed in second.

I know Harry Kane was also the top scorer from English players and among all players. Now i will analyze who had the most assists.

Harry Kane was not only the top scorer but also a player who had the most assist as well.

Since Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah were the top 2 scorers, i want to compare between Salah and Kane.

By looking at this graph, Kane made couple more goals than Salah.

Then, who played more games?

As you can see this graph, Salah played two more games then Kane did, but Kane made more goals than Salah.

Now, I know that Salah played two more games than Kane did and Kane made a couple more goals than Salah did. Then, who made more assists between Kane and Salah?

Kane made 14 assists while Salah made only 5 assists.

Now, I will analyze who has the most xG among the players in Premier League. xG (an expectation goal) measures the quality of the opportunity by calcualting the probability of scoring at a particular position in a particular competition stage. This value is based on several factors before the shot is taken.

I see that Antwoine Hackford, who had not scored a single goal, has the most xG but is higher xG better? Comparing xG to actual scores can indicate a player’s shooting ability or good luck. A player who consistently scores more goals than this or her total xG probably shoots/finishes above the average.

Since I analyzed who made most goals, assists and highest xG, now i will analyze what players attempted the most penalty kick.

As you can see, Bruno Fernandes was the player who attempted most penalty kick. Harry Kane, who scored the most goals, only attempted 4 penalty kicks while Mohamed Salah attempted 6 penalty kicks.

Then, who made most goals by penalty?

As Bruno Fernandes attempted 10 penalty kicks, he succeeded 9 goals out of 10 penalty kicks. Harry Kane succeeded his every penalty kick attempt and also Salah succeeded 6 of penalty attempted.

Conclustion

Harry Kane was the top scorer and top assistser from all of the players and also from English players in Premier League. Mohamed Salah was a second highest goal scorerer. Despite of Salah played two more games than Kane did, Kane made more goals than Salah did. Not only goals, but also Harry Kane made most assists. Interesting fact that i found was Harry Kane only had 0.6 xG but he scored the most, which means that he consistently involved with scoring and overpassed his xG level. Furthermore, while Harry Kane only had 4 penalty kick attempts, he still scored the most while Mohamed Salah attempted 6 of the penalty kicks. By analyzing many of facts, i can conclude that Harry Kane was the player who scored the most and assisted the most even though he missed couple of games during the season. In 2020-2021 English Premier League, Harry Kane was the player who had the most influence.