Manchester City have issues in the goalscoring department; no PL goals for Savinho, Bernardo Silva, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden or Jack Grealish this season and they have had 67 shots between them.
We use xG because that’s the most reliable measure over several games.
10) Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)
Expected goals: 1.5
Actual goals: 0
Only Phil Foden has taken more shots without scoring a goal. Something is rotten in the state of Manchester City.
9) Dominic Solanke (Tottenham)
Expected goals: 5.6
Actual goals: 4
His performances have largely been positive but there’s no denying that he should have scored more goals in a Tottenham shirt. 1.6 more goals to be precise. But we can’t all be Bryan Mbeumo.
8) Marcus Tavernier (Bournemouth)
Expected goals: 2.7
Actual goals: 1
Loves a long-range shot. Doesn’t score from a long-range shot very often.
7) Joshua Zirkzee (Manchester United)
Expected goals: 2.7
Actual goals: 1
Finished ahead of his xG for Bologna last season but has looked a little out of his depth for Manchester United this season. Often banished to the bench with Rasmus Hojlund fit, with Paul Scholes left asking ‘exactly what is a Joshua Zirkzee?’. He looks a little like a competition winner.
6) Nikola Milenkovic (Nottingham Forest)
Expected goals: 1.7
Actual goals: 0
The City Ground is going to erupt when the brilliant Serb defender scores his first goal for Forest. Unless it’s away, obviously.
5) Adama Traore (Fulham)
Expected goals: 2.8
Actual goals: 1
Three shots with an xG of 1.3 v Manchester City and he could not score. It got him in the worst XI of that Premier League weekend but Pep Guardiola basically said he was unplayable. Up to the point he took the shot, obviously.
4) Savinho (Manchester City)
Expected goals: 1.8
Actual goals: 0
Four Premier League assists in a largely positive start to life in England, but he is yet to score in any competition for Manchester City, who are starting to look like they might be in a crisis.
No PL goals for Savinho, Bernardo Silva, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden or Jack Grealish this season and they have had 67 shots between them.
3) Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton)
Expected goals: 3.9
Actual goals: 2
The worst finisher of 2023/24 is here again; he’s getting better chances than Jamie Vardy and scoring half the number of goals.
2) Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace)
Expected goals: 3.0
Actual goals: 1
Opta have clocked him missing five Big Chances this season, which has become a factor in Crystal Palace’s unexpectedly poor start to the season. Takes his shots from a bigger average distance than anybody on this list. Currently injured, which has lifted him off the bottom of this list.
1) Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)
Expected goals: 4.2
Actual goals: 2
Three poor shots from distance from Fernandes at Ipswich to show that nothing much has yet changed under Ruben Amorim. He basically takes the same number of shots as Mo Salah with roughly 20% of his success.