Season Analysis: Goalscorers

Season Analysis: Goalscorers

This post was written by an individual that was granted a permission to write in this blog. It is not necessarily reflect CFC's perspective.

28 Matches, 141 goals. Forget about 4 own goals from New Venture, 137 goals scored by 54 players. Attacking forces are proven crucial in this league as goal differences made the different in the league position - look at 2nd and 3rd, as well as 4th to 6th.
Golden Boot award will be handed to Raj(again) from Machanz FC, with the total of 11goals almost half of their total. His teammate Lingesh followed closely with 9goals, thanks to 7 he had against New Venture - while Raj took the remaining 4 they got in that match. This partnership contributed to almost all goals for Machanz, because 2 each from Trish and Ringgo completed 24 goals for them. Raj scored in all games except when they lost to Trinity, which means they lost their medal for this season.
The Champion Sabah FC scored 31 goals in the campaign, 2 of them came from NV's own goals. Jorden lead their goal chart with 6goals. Eventhough that amount of goals put him 5th place (with Nadun from Eagles), but they have 11 players scored throughout the season to help them winning the league. Taha, Fir and Ahmed contributed 4 each, and Nan scored 3 before he broke his collar bone. Sumit and Berty scored twice, while 4 more scored once. Defender Julian's goal in highlight gave them the winning against main title rival (in week 6) Galacticos.
2nd place Eagles FC is 2nd in term of goals scored, with 29goals, one from NV player. They also had 11 players scored for them, including the 2 who involved in transfer windows with machanz - Samuel and Juma. Mmediong scored 8 to get 3rd in the scorers' rank, while Nadun matched Jorden's goal tally with 6. They also have Salim with 4, and Kimu with 3 - one from it when he equalized against Sabah FC. Ope had 2, while 6 more scored one.
Table leader in more than half of the season Galacticos who finished 3rd, only scored 20 (4th in term of goal scored) shared among 9players. Their star-man Steve lead the way with 5, and Sean scored 4. 3 more players scored twice, JJ, PK and Mseks. 4 other players scored one. One more goal is from NV own goal.
Kelkatu FC relied too much on the rookie Amirul who scored 7 for them, more than one third of the total 18. Salim and Abdi scored 3, while Mohsen had 2 for himself including the equaliser against Galacticos in the last match. 3 more players scored one.
Sheperd scored 3 for Trinity, and Dennie 2. 4 more players scored one.
As for UFC, they scored their opening goal in their shocking win against Kelkatu in week 3 through Farid. Daniel scored 3, and Rusy scored 2.
New Venture opened their goal in the first matach against Trinity by Ragu. But they had the own-goal issue in the following matches. Their ey-player Farouk however managed to score 2 more.

This analysis suggests that having a squad that is capable to score is very important, more important than just having one (or two) scoring machine in the team. It is proven when Sabah, Eagles, and Galcticos had 9 to 11 players scored for them. Machanz in the other hand was 'not-enough' to get top 3 even they have 2 top scorers in the league which gave them 20 goals amongst just the two of them.