Manchester United fans will like this interesting display of who’s been the luckiest when it comes to receiving the most “gift” goals. And also what Premier League teams have been hurt by gift goals the most. I saw this on Deadspin, who got it from SportsMatrix.
They went through the Premier League season to this point and counted every time a team made an obvious mistake that led directly to a goal. And there’s charts and graphs. Numbers, stats and ratios.
As you can see from the chart (via Sport Matrix with a h/t to Deadspin) below Manchester United was given five gift goals and conceded three.
As you can see from this chart, Manchester United ranks 14th in the league when it comes to percentage of goals conceded as gifts with 13.6%.
Riveting material really. Glory glory Man United
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