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Key takeaways
- Each game at the 2026 World Cup has featured about 80 possessions per team.
- Those teams generate only around 12 shots per game, so 85% of those possessions don't lead to an attempt on goal.
- But we all put up with the constant futility because there's a likely payoff hidden behind all of these hopeless statistics, right?
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Each game at the 2026 World Cup has featured about 80 possessions per team. And each team has scored about 1.5 goals per game. Those teams, in other words, are failing to score goals with 98% of their possessions.
Those teams generate only around 12 shots per game, so 85% of those possessions don't lead to an attempt on goal. And even when they do, those shots fail to become goals 88% of the time.
But we all put up with the constant futility because there's a likely payoff hidden behind all of these hopeless statistics, right? Right?
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