they are but they are not registered as shots on target...
otherwise clubs like barca/real would have 50 shots on target every game...
shot on target should be a shot which gk saved, one of three posts or a goal...
12 seasons, 35T player
5 Titles, 3 Runner-up, 2 Third place
0 Champions league, 2 Runner-up, 3 Third place
1 Cup, 0 Runner-up, 0 Third place
12 seasons, 35T player
5 Titles, 3 Runner-up, 2 Third place
0 Champions league, 2 Runner-up, 3 Third place
1 Cup, 0 Runner-up, 0 Third place
I don't know. OTOH, Hawkeye does a pretty good job of deducing that stuff in tennis and cricket, so I choose to assume the game has a virtual Hawkeye - tracking the flight of a football isn't much different to working out whether a cricket ball would hit the stumps or not.
No different to working out whether a goalie "needed" to make a save or not really
By looking at the angle of the strike etc. If the ball doesn't travel a reasonable distance (to allow for such a look) then it was probably a tackle and would negate any consideration of a 'shot'. You know, the sort of 'reasonble' and 'judgement' factors that referees, linesmen, managers, pundits etc make/discuss/argue about all the time when they are marginal. (Just like, when there is the question of whether a goal is a strikers goal or a defenders own goal? You can make the rule and agree its correct but then find a grey area which is difficult to apply - it doesn't break the rule, it just highlights the role of judgement.) But in some instances you will never KNOW, you need to make a reasonable judgement.
I could ofc have written my reply to withstand forensic examination and included words like 'could be reasonably expected' or 'with an acceptable degree' etc but it would then have have ran to Paragraghs, sub-paragraghs and clauses rather than 1 line.
I stopped reading here. Thanks for your effort tho
Anyway, I googled it, so here u are, all of you who wondered what exactly "shots on target" mean
Shots on target
Any goal attempt that:
a) Goes into the net
b) Would have gone into the net but for being stopped by a goalkeeper's save
c) Would have gone into the net but for being stopped by a defender who is the last man.
12 seasons, 35T player
5 Titles, 3 Runner-up, 2 Third place
0 Champions league, 2 Runner-up, 3 Third place
1 Cup, 0 Runner-up, 0 Third place
I suppose I'll have to assume that on googling you got it from a reputable source.
Afaik, using the definition I have always known, b & c together should read:
....if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another player on the defending side.
That still leaves your own question unanswered as how you decide if it was going into the net before it was blocked.
"I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago."
Question is not unanswered, if my shot was.stopped by last man then it would have been a goal...
12 seasons, 35T player
5 Titles, 3 Runner-up, 2 Third place
0 Champions league, 2 Runner-up, 3 Third place
1 Cup, 0 Runner-up, 0 Third place