MLS Goal Details 2010

Taken from the game guide pdfs on MLSsoccer.com. They appear each week, and also in the playoffs. For the non-playoff teams who played each other in the final week (DC-TOR, CHV-CHI), I've added in the stats myself. As usual for MLS, the final numbers don't quite add up. It always seems to be off by a goal or two when comparing the offense and defensive numbers. It may be possible to go through each week's game guides to figure out the errors and when they occured (or not, since they didn't have the game guides for a while early on this season). Anyway, on offense there are 88 cross goals, 44 corner, 15 fk, 40 idfk. On defense, it's 87-45-17-38 respectively. The location numbers are different too: 134-373-84 vs 131-375-85. Totals Offense Total Goals 591 100.00% Right Foot 323 54.65% Left Foot 141 23.86% Headers 120 20.30% Other 7 1.18% Open Play 316 53.47% Cross 88 14.89% Corner 44 7.45% Rebound 22 3.72% Penalties 48 8.12% Direct From FK 15 2.54% FK (indirect) 40 6.77% Own goals 18 3.05% Inside Goal Area 134 22.67% Inside Penalty Area 373 63.11% Outside Penalty Area 84 14.21% Compared to Previous Years 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Right Foot 48.21% 56.62% 57.65% 57.72% 53.98% 52.54% 54.65% Left Foot 32.65% 23.77% 26.64% 23.75% 26.90% 27.15% 23.86% Headers 18.37% 18.15% 15.51% 17.57% 18.44% 19.96% 20.30% Other 0.77% 1.45% 0.20% 0.97% 0.68% 0.35% 1.18% Open Play 52.04% 51.72% 49.50% 47.30% 51.78% 50.61% 53.47% Cross 21.43% 19.60% 18.09% 18.34% 18.61% 19.44% 14.89% Corner 6.63% 6.53% 7.36% 8.11% 6.77% 7.53% 7.45% Rebound N/A N/A 7.36% 7.14% 6.09% 4.20% 3.72% Penalties 9.95% 9.07% 6.96% 9.07% 6.09% 8.58% 8.12% Direct From FK 2.55% 3.45% 2.98% 3.09% 2.88% 3.15% 2.54% FK (indirect) 5.36% 6.72% 5.57% 5.21% 5.08% 3.33% 6.77% Own goals 2.04% 2.90% 2.19% 1.74% 2.71% 3.15% 3.05% Inside Goal Area 26.79% 25.05% 26.84% 22.59% 21.15% 26.62% 22.67% Inside Penalty Area 61.99% 60.80% 56.86% 62.16% 60.74% 59.37% 63.11% Outside Penalty Area 11.22% 14.16% 16.30% 15.25% 18.10% 14.01% 14.21% Team Breakdowns: Offense CHI CHV CLB COL DAL DC HOU KC LA NE NY PHI RSL SEA SJ TOR Goals 37 31 40 44 42 21 40 36 44 32 38 35 45 39 34 33 Right Foot 14 15 19 25 24 11 17 22 24 20 23 27 22 24 18 18 Left Foot 14 7 8 11 10 8 10 7 8 8 8 5 12 7 10 8 Headers 8 8 12 6 8 2 11 7 12 4 7 3 11 8 6 7 Other 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Open Play 21 20 17 24 21 12 17 23 23 18 20 22 21 25 13 19 Cross 3 8 5 6 6 2 7 5 5 5 6 4 6 6 9 5 Corner 3 1 5 2 1 0 5 0 5 1 2 2 6 2 7 2 Rebound 3 0 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 Penalties 2 1 5 4 8 2 3 2 3 1 4 3 3 1 3 3 Direct From FK 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 2 2 1 0 1 FK (indirect) 1 0 4 2 2 3 6 2 4 2 2 1 5 2 1 3 Own goals 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 Inside Goal Area 7 4 11 7 13 5 5 10 12 7 12 9 11 7 9 5 Inside Penalty Area 24 17 26 30 26 11 31 21 27 19 21 21 26 29 22 22 Outside Penalty Area 6 10 3 7 3 5 4 5 5 6 5 5 8 3 3 6 Team Breakdowns: Defense CHI CHV CLB COL DAL DC HOU KC LA NE NY PHI RSL SEA SJ TOR Goals 38 45 34 32 28 47 49 35 26 50 29 49 20 35 33 41 Right Foot 25 29 22 21 17 23 28 17 11 26 12 24 10 18 14 26 Left Foot 5 9 6 6 4 13 11 15 10 13 8 14 5 7 10 5 Headers 8 7 6 5 7 10 9 3 3 11 8 11 5 10 8 9 Other 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Open Play 20 24 16 15 18 24 31 24 10 33 15 25 8 15 22 16 Cross 6 5 6 3 3 8 6 5 4 7 8 6 5 7 4 4 Corner 4 4 2 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 3 4 1 4 3 6 Rebound 1 3 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 Penalties 6 5 4 4 2 2 0 1 1 2 1 4 4 5 0 7 Direct From FK 0 2 1 2 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 FK (indirect) 1 1 4 4 0 5 3 2 2 4 0 5 1 2 0 4 Own goals 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 Inside Goal Area 6 8 5 8 6 10 10 7 7 13 7 7 4 10 10 13 Inside Penalty Area 27 30 23 20 18 33 32 25 16 27 20 33 13 21 16 21 Outside Penalty Area 5 7 6 4 4 4 7 3 3 10 2 9 3 4 7 7 Corner Kick Scoring Percentage Corners Goals PCT 1 SJ 126 7 5.56% 2 RSL 133 6 4.51% 3 LA 140 5 3.57% 4 CLB 141 5 3.55% 5 HOU 161 5 3.11% 6 CHI 129 3 2.33% 7 TOR 98 2 2.04% 8 COL 128 2 1.56% 9 NY 143 2 1.40% 10 PHI 147 2 1.36% 11 SEA 171 2 1.17% 12 CHV 110 1 0.91% 13 NE 128 1 0.78% 14 DAL 158 1 0.63% 15 DC 144 0 0.00% 15 KC 150 0 0.00% Total 2207 44 1.99% Only 98 corners for TFC? That may be the lowest total of all time. I know it's the lowest from 2003-present. Overall PCT of corners converted is right in line with previous years: Corners Goals PCT 2003 1502 32 2.13% 2004 1554 26 1.67% 2005 1776 36 2.03% 2006 1751 37 2.11% 2007 1826 42 2.30% 2008 1980 40 2.02% 2009 2168 43 1.98% 2010 2207 44 1.99% As always, keep in mind that due to the way MLS counts things, there may be more goals scored off corners. Depending on what happens, a goal from a corner kick could end up as a rebound goal or an own goal, and those wouldn't be counted in the "corner goals" category. What jumps at you from these stats? It's interesting to me that there were more headers this year, yet fewer crosses.