So Where Are All The Goals

By Ted Dunmore Pitch Invasion

Where Are The World Cup Goals?
As I type this, Algeria and Slovenia are convincing me I shouldn’t have woken up at 6 am to watch them both hamfistedly try to score a goal. It has just finished 1-0 to Slovenia and that comes after the first two days of the World Cup produced a pitiful 1.4 goals per game, the lowest total for that period of games since 1986. We are now at 1.33.

So where are all the goals, despite a couple of terrible goalkeeping blunders already?

It’s very, very early to be drawing the conclusion that we could be headed for a historically low-scoring tournament, though we do have a sample of almost 10% of the games already.

But in the broader sweep of World Cup history, it would be no surprise if the number of goals declined again in this World Cup, as the following list of goals average per World Cup illustrates:

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