{"id":199683,"date":"2025-12-23T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:34:08","slug":"scotland-is-in-form-hull-city-striker-oli-mcburnie-worth-a-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199683\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: Is in-form Hull City striker Oli McBurnie worth a recall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite missing two months of action through injury, only four players have scored more Championship goals than McBurnie (nine) this term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Factor in his three assists and only three players have bettered his combined goals contribution tally of 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But what do the striker&#8217;s underlying numbers tell us about his season so far?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight of McBurnie&#8217;s strikes have been non-penalty goals, while his goals-per-90 ratio of 0.87 is the third-best in the division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is overperforming his expected goals rating by four, so perhaps some will question whether his current level of output is sustainable, but he still ranks just outside the league&#8217;s top 10 for shots on target per 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Where McBurnie also shines as a forward in England&#8217;s second tier is his playmaking ability, with just four other strikers creating more big chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Off the ball, he ranks within the Championship&#8217;s top 20 strikers for blocks, clearances, tackles and possession won in the final third on a per-90 basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s winner against West Brom was an eighth goal in nine games and takes his all-time Championship tally to 53 in 138 matches across spells with Barnsley, Swansea, Sheffield United and Hull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A season-long spell in La Liga with relegated Las Palmas last term, where he scored five goals and set up six, will have also improved him as a player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite missing two months of action through injury, only four players have scored more Championship goals than McBurnie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-199683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}