Leeds have been playing a like a mid-table side with their eyes closed. Pretty good football, but inefficient.<\/p>\n
A lack of goals is a real issue for Daniel Farke’s side. Only Wolves’<\/a> tally of seven is fewer than Leeds’ 11.<\/p>\n They are having shots, though. So far, they have registered 146 shots, which is more than 11 other Premier League clubs, including Aston Villa<\/a> and Crystal Palace.<\/a><\/p>\n It is converting those shots to goals that is letting them down – Sunderland,<\/a> for example, have taken 31 fewer shots than Leeds yet have scored three more goals this campaign.<\/p>\n And it is only bottom of the league Wolves (6.2%) that have a worse shot-conversion rate than Farke’s side.<\/p>\n Defensively, only three teams have conceded more goals than Leeds this season.<\/p>\n Yet Leeds have given up fewer shots than 12 clubs in the league, including reigning champions Liverpool,<\/a> Bournemouth,<\/a> Newcastle<\/a> and Brentford.<\/a><\/p>\n Both of Leeds’ goalkeepers have been among the worst shot-stoppers in the league – Lucas Perri has let in 1.6 and Karl Darlow 1.8 more goals than they should given the quantity and quality of chances they have faced.<\/p>\n Only Wolves have a worse goal difference, but Leeds have a better xG difference than Tottenham,<\/a> Aston Villa, Sunderland and Fulham.<\/a><\/p>\n So it comes down to where blame lies for Leeds being in the relegation zone. How much should be laid at Farke’s door and how much at the performance of the players or the summer recruitment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds have been playing a like a mid-table side with their eyes closed. Pretty good football, but inefficient.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-314233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}