Shots conceded by the best defenses in the Premier League
The Premier League has started in August and already 7 match weeks of the 2024/25 have been played. Liverpool is currently top of the table with 18 points, with Manchester City and Arsenal tied at 17 points. Chelsea and Aston Villa are currently tied in the fourth place with 14 points.
Liverpool is currently the best defense in the League with only 2 goals conceded, while teams like Aston Villa have been a bit more leaky, conceding 9 goals in the league so far and keeping very few clean sheets.
In this article I want to analyze the top 10 teams for goals conceded and visualize what type of chances they are conceding, to get an intuition about their defensive style of play. I am going to outline the analysis process, from getting the data, to aggregating, visualizing and ranking the teams.
I have used the data available on football data website. Here you can find the detailed match statistics of all major European leagues (and more). In order to import one league, using pandas you can do:
