Stat Check Tuesday
- Updated: April 21, 2015
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With Sunday’s comeback win at PPL Park still fresh in our minds, let’s take a look at where the Revolution rank in some key statistical categories.
(Note: the following statistics can be found on whoscored.com and squawka.com, both of which use information gathered from OPTA to calculate its figures.)
Total chances (key passes + assists): 54 (12th)
Analysis: Eight days after a rather drab offensive outing against Columbus, the Revolution were far more dangerous at PPL Park, where they collected 10 attacking chances. Many of those chances came in the second half, especially after Jay Heaps started to use his substitutes against a tired Union side. Interestingly, Lee Nguyen only created two of those chances, despite playing the full 90.
Passing accuracy: 75.7 percent (12th)
Analysis: Following weeks of substandard passing accuracy averages, the Revolution improved considerably on Sunday. Their 82.6 percent accuracy was their best number of the season so far, and only one starter – Juan Agudelo – had a percentage (68.4 percent) lower than the league median (76.6 percent). All the more impressive is the fact that a number of key players were missing from the lineup, including Jose Goncalves, Chris Tierney, Teal Bunbury and Darrius Barnes.
Who’s up: London Woodberry. The rarely-used reserve defender sparkled in his 2015 regular season debut by completing 94.3 percent of his passes, collecting 11 crosses and setting up Teal Bunbury for the final pass on Charlie Davies’ equalizer.
Who’s down: Lee Nguyen. With defenses regularly clogging the central channel, last year’s MVP finalist has found it difficult to channel the form that allowed him to score 18 goals last year. According to Squawka, Sunday’s match was Nguyen’s worst of the season statistically.
Performance score*: 892 (12th)
*Squawka.com uses an aggregate of key stats such as goals scored and conceded, defensive actions and chances created and combines them into an overall score.
Analysis: The Revolution climbed six spots from last week’s ranking thanks to continued improvement on both ends of the pitch. Cristian Maidana may have punched the ol’ onion bag on a brilliant free kick, but aside from that, the defense held strong for much of the match. As noted above, the 10 attacking chances the Revolution created made Sunday’s match made it one of their brightest on the attacking end.
How does their current score compare to last year’s through the first seven games? After their 1-1 draw at Chicago on Apr. 19, 2014, the club’s performance score was 373.
Did you know? The Revolution have conceded 11.3 shots per game this year, the second-lowest average in the Conference behind the Montreal Impact (10.5).
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