Leo, as it turns out, has the worst conversion rate
Reddit user Pek-Man has compiled a table ranking Barcelona’s attackers over the past 11 years in terms of their non-penalty conversion rate. As it turns out, the 2020/21 versions of Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann rank last and third-from-last respectively.
Here are their league stats.
Griezmann
- 15 matches
- 1,007 minutes
- 3 goals
- 0 non-penalty goals
- 31 shots taken
- 1 penalty taken
- 3 non-penalty goals
- 30 non-penalty shots
- 9,68% conversion rate
- 10,00% non-penalty conversion rate
Messi
- 15 games
- 1,305 minutes
- 7 goals
- 2 penalty goals
- 93 shots
- 3 penalties take
- 5 non-penalty goals
- 90 shots taken
- 7,53% conversion rate
- 5,56% non-penalty conversion rate
The top result actually belongs to Pedro, who scored 12 non-penalty goals after just 38 non-penalty shots in the 2009/10 season. He had a non-penalty conversion rate of 31,58%.
Messi’s best result is from the 2012/13 season when he managed 42 non-penalty goals in 159 non-penalty shots. He had a non-penalty conversion rate of 26,42%.
As for Griezmann, he had a slightly better result last term, registering a non-penalty conversion rate of 16,36%. The Frenchman scored 9 goals in 55 shots.
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