Goalscorer Stats - Two-Footedness

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A couple of times during the Southampton game Rashford had a chance on his left foot and the finish didn't look particularly confident for a #9. I ended up looking into the stats of his goals as well as various players in the "Big 6" and main strikers of other teams.

Not saying there's a great deal of insight here, but might be interesting. Spurs' attack is impressively two-footed.

Data:
transfermarkt.com, player goal stats, filtered by left-footed shot and right-footed shot in "Manner of goal". I don't think this includes set pieces / penalties / tap-ins(?) and obviously not headers. I think this way is more indicative than including dead balls. For Rashford, Martial & Lingard, I've manually checked their international goals (9 total, ignoring 1 tap-in). Not ruling out some mistakes in my collection.

Key:
Dom % = dominant foot % of goals
Right = total right-footed goals
Left = total left-footed goals

Code:
PLAYER          Dom %   Right   Left
Bernardo Silva    95.7%    2    45
Sané              90.7%    4    39
Rashford          90.2%    37    4
Deeney            89.5%    51    6
David Silva       89.3%    9    75
Lingard           88.4%    38    5
Abraham           88.2%    45    6
Haller            86.5%    45    7
Jiménez           86.0%    37    6
Sánchez           85.6%    89    15
Willian           85.5%    53    9
Mahrez            84.8%    5    28
Wesley            83.9%    26    5
Lucas Moura       83.6%    51    10
Salah             83.2%    20    99
Zaha              82.9%    34    7
Lacazette         80.9%    89    21
Pukki             80.4%    78    19
Pépé              80.0%    4    16
Dele Alli         80.0%    48    12
Pogba             80.0%    24    6
Giroud            79.8%    19    75
Mata              79.8%    18    71
Shaqiri           78.3%    10    36
Barnes            78.0%    32    9
Aubemayang        77.6%    132    38
Murray            76.6%    36    11
Martial           75.9%    41    13
Ozil              75.4%    15    46
Callum Wilson     74.5%    38    13
Aguero            74.4%    177    61
Origi             74.3%    26    9
Sterling          73.3%    66    24
Joelinton         73.1%    19    7
Firmino           72.1%    62    24
Sigurdsson        71.7%    43    17
McGoldrick        70.9%    39    16
De Bruyne         69.6%    21    48
Mane              69.4%    77    34
Barkley           69.2%    18    8
Hazard            66.7%    64    32
Vardy             66.2%    49    25
Kane              65.0%    76    41
Ings              64.9%    24    13
Batshuayi         64.8%    59    32
Pedro             59.3%    70    48
Lukaku            58.6%    46    65
Richarlison       57.1%    9    12
Son               54.2%    52    44
Eriksen           53.4%    39    34
 

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Seems about right, I think. When I think of the most two footed players in the league I tend to think of Son, De Bruyne, and Eriksen.

Never really noticed Rashford was that one footed. The worst in our side in recent years have been Valencia and Matic.
 

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Seems about right, I think. When I think of the most two footed players in the league I tend to think of Son, De Bruyne, and Eriksen.

Never really noticed Rashford was that one footed. The worst in our side in recent years have been Valencia and Matic.
Valencia surprisingly has 3 left-footed goals (2 for us, 1 for Wigan), out of 26 total (88.5%). But yeah, one-footed as a player. Whoscored has 94.6% of his total shots as right-footed. I'm not aware of anywhere public that colects left/right-footed passing.
 

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When will Greenwood be given the opportunity to start. You surely cannot expect a 17 year old to come in when we are in desperate need for a goal and judge him on 10 mins? Surely if Ole actually has faith in the youngsters he should drop Rashford?
 

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When will Greenwood be given the opportunity to start. You surely cannot expect a 17 year old to come in when we are in desperate need for a goal and judge him on 10 mins? Surely if Ole actually has faith in the youngsters he should drop Rashford?
I know Greenwood is famously two-footed but this is still an unusually gratuitous bit of whinging. Also worth noting that a) Greenwood was given 40 minutes to make an impression in the game before last and b) coming off the bench when the team is chasing a goal is exactly the way most young strikers first make an impression.
 

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I know Greenwood is famously two-footed but this is still an unusually gratuitous bit of whinging. Also worth noting that a) Greenwood was given 40 minutes to make an impression in the game before last and b) coming off the bench when the team is chasing a goal is exactly the way most young strikers first make an impression.
I don't think we should put pressure on him but Rashford's current form, dropping him for a game or 2 will make him realise he isnt a fixture in this team.
 

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Thanks, that was interesting. I think Hazard surprised me the most.
 

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Valencia surprisingly has 3 left-footed goals (2 for us, 1 for Wigan), out of 26 total (88.5%). But yeah, one-footed as a player. Whoscored has 94.6% of his total shots as right-footed. I'm not aware of anywhere public that colects left/right-footed passing.
I feel like on the rare occasions when he actually attempted a left-footed pass or a left-footed cross (like 2 or 3 times each season), he was surprisingly often successful with it. And it's not like they were just too simple too feck up, especially since he fecked up right-footed crosses on a regular basic regardless of their difficulty.
 

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Interesting stats. Confirms most of what I perceived but there are some surprises in there for me. Didn't realise Vardy was particularly good with his weaker foot and I didn't expect Mata to have got so many with his right foot. Always saw him as a particularly one-footed player.
 

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I was actually thinking about the last player who scored a goal for United by cutting inside from the right, and the only one that came to my mind was Valencia a couple of seasons ago against Stoke.

 

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Lukaku surprises me there.

For United it looks like he was 67.9% dominant foot, 9 right, 19 left. Even that's quite good for two-footedness and better than I would have guessed.
 

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I honestly have no idea which foot Son is stronger with, he generates tremendous power with both and seems to use them completely interchangeably. I don't know if I've ever seen a more "truly" two footed attacker.
 

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I honestly have no idea which foot Son is stronger with, he generates tremendous power with both and seems to use them completely interchangeably. I don't know if I've ever seen a more "truly" two footed attacker.
It's something I noticed about him vs Arsenal. Driving at the defenders towards the box, they can't show him onto a "weaker" foot because he can go both ways. Anyone else come close?

FYI, for anyone wondering:

Messi 82.8%
Ronaldo 70.7%