Shots conceded by the best defenses in the top European leagues

With the start of Bundesliga, all European leagues have finally kicked off the 2024/25 season. This means that we can now take a look at statistics for the first matches and draw some comparison between leagues and teams. It’s still too early to make final conclusions, but it can be definitely interesting to look at early trends.

In particular, I have noticed that quite a few teams have kept a clean sheet in all matches played so far. How good are their defenses? Is it because they are not conceding shots on target, or because their goalkeepers are world-class? To answer these questions, we need to

• select the teams that have not conceded a single goal (yet)
• calculate the number of shots on target conceded
• rank them by number of shots on target conceded

In this way, the teams that have outstanding goalkeepers will be ranked at the top, since they have saved the highest amount of shots on target.

In the article, I am going to outline the analysis process, from getting the data, to aggregating, visualizing and ranking the teams.

 

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