World Cup Qualifiers – Goals Scored and Conceded Stats

With the World Cup  drawing closer those playing World Cup Fantasy Football games are already racking their brains to form a perfect team. Already strategies of playing 3-4-3 and 5-3-2 are being discussed to take advantage of the different rules the games have to offer. Selecting that correct team for optimizing the defense or attack is a real dilemma. 

To help out I have tabulated the performance of each of the 32 teams during the qualifiers in terms of goals scored and conceded. Since the number of matches played varies for different teams I have kept it in terms of GSPM (Goals scored per match) and GCPM (Goals conceded per match). Furthermore for comparison purposes I have grouped them according to their World Cup groups.  I have left out Brazil as they did not have to participate in the qualifiers.

Goals  Scored and Conceded Per Match

GROUP A                 GSPM                 GCPM

Brazil                          –                         –

Croatia                       1.1                     0.75

Cameroon                   1.7                     0.57

Mexico                       1.3                     1

GROUP B

Spain                         1.75                   0.37

Chile                          1.56                   1.81

Australia                     1.5                     0.87

Netherlands                 3.4                     0.5

GROUP C

Greece                       1.33                    0.5

Colombia                    0.81                    1.68

Ivory Coast                  2.28                    0.85

Japan                          2                        0.62

GROUP D

Italy                            1.9                      0.9

England                       3.1                     0.4

Uruguay                      1.56                   1.56

Costa Rica                  1.3                      0.7

GROUP E

Switzerland                 1.7                      0.6

France                        1.8                      0.8

Ecuador                      1                        1.25

Honduras                    1.3                      1.2

GROUP F

Bosnia                        3                         0.6

Argentina                    2.18                    0.93

Nigeria                       1.28                     0.42

Iran                            1                         0.25

GROUP G

Germany                    3.6                      1

Portugal                     2                         0.91

Ghana                       2.71                     0.71

USA                          1.5                       0.8

GROUP H

Belgium                     1.8                       0.4

Russia                       2                         0.5

Algeria                       2                         0.57

South Korea              1.62                     0.87

Now exercise those grey cells and go get those hidden gems.