'Data shows that only one out of 92 crosses on average leads directly to a goal — although, as Garry Gelade, a statistical consultant who works with Premier League sides has shown, it is a bit more complicated than that. After analysing 35,000 crosses in the Premier League between 2013 and 2015 in more depth — and, in particular, looking at what happened in the six seconds afterwards — he found that one in every 47 crosses leads to a goal.' Crosses are falling in the Premier League: why the focus on target men? https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/jan/21/andy-carroll-peter-crouch- | |