We bring you the top/bottom 10 players who are massively underperforming in front of goal this season, and Gabriel Jesus is on that list. The guy at the top is having an absolute mare, mind…
Oh and we don’t hold no truck with penalties so we have taken those numbers out.
10) Richarlison (Tottenham)
Expected goals: 1.6
Actual goals: 0
The scorer of three World Cup goals for Brazil but somehow yet to get off the mark for Spurs in the Premier League, though he has actually only started five top-flight games and taken 13 shots since his switch from Everton. He really should have scored v Arsenal, mind.
9) Diego Costa (Wolves)
Expected goals: 1.6
Actual goals: 0
He took eight shots against Leicester City in a 4-0 defeat; that’s just ludicrous. And he still has more red cards than goals since his return to Premier League football.
8) Amadou Onana (Everton)
Expected goals: 1.7
Actual goals: 0
He looks like a genuinely excellent footballer, but a genuinely excellent goalscorer he is not. “From my point, I worked hard to score goals. I repeated, repeated and repeated from 10 years old to when I finished to score goals. It’s my job to pass that on,” says boss Frank Lampard. Right now, he is not quite doing that job with Onana.
7) Mohamed Elyounoussi (Southampton)
Expected goals: 2.0
Actual goals: 0
This monumental miss v Newcastle was given an xG of 0.66.
What a miss from Elyounoussi 😬 #SOUNEW pic.twitter.com/usoHqwA3qm
— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) November 6, 2022
6) Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United)
Expected goals: 3.2
Actual goals: 1
In three of four Premier League seasons, Bowen has scored fewer goals than his xG suggests he should. But this is his worst deficit yet; only one open-play goal in this campaign for a player who takes way more shots than any of his West Ham teammates.
5) Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa)
Expected goals: 4.3
Actual goals: 2
After breaking even in his first Premier League season with 14 goals, his 11-goal second season was also pretty much par for the chances he was given. But this season has been poor from Watkins, who is taking better quality shots from shorter distances but still contriving to come up well short.
4) Solly March (Brighton)
Expected goals: 2.6
Actual goals: 0
An absolute parody of a football team. It takes a certain kind of skill to take 27 shots without accidentally scoring once off your arse.
3) Gabriel Jesus (Arsenal)
Expected goals: 7.7
Actual goals: 5
All-round game, works hard etc etc. But the…
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