Southampton: The stats that sum up Saints’ brilliant Premier League start
By Marc Walker
Confidence in front of goal
Form our tweet above, the facts are set straight.
Saints have scored their second-most goals in the first eight games of a top-flight season in 2020/21 and have registered on the scoreline in all but one Premier League match.
Via fbref.com, we can see that Saints have performed brilliantly when it comes to finishing chances.
Their expected goals total – the number of goals they would expect to score, on average, from chances created – is at 8.7. However, given that they have scored 16 times so far, it is clear that they are finding the net in confident fashion from many different situations.