Premier League Stats Review: Gameweek 3 Set Piece and Penalty Takers

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Published on September 28, 2020

Penalties were the talk of the Premier League this past weekend, as we saw seven converted attempts by six players, accounting for 20.6 percent of the 34 total goals scored (excluding own goals) in Gameweek 3. While we weren't surprised to see Jamie Vardy line up (twice) for Leicester City in their 5-2 win over Manchester City -- a result we all saw coming, of course -- it was a bit of a surprise that Youri Tielemans took their third penalty attempt, which came after Vardy was subbed off (theoretically it could have gone to James Maddison or Kelechi Iheanacho). Otherwise, Neal Maupay for Brighton and Bruno Fernandes for Manchester United were who we expected to see, as the latter's perfect Premier League conversion rate continued.

More importantly, we got the answer to the "who takes penalties for Everton when Gylfi Sigurdsson isn't on the pitch?" in the form of Richarlison. Additionally, we saw Callum Wilson take Newcastle's attempt in their draw with Tottenham, though that came after Matt Ritchie was subbed off, so it doesn't completely give us the answer there. Wilson was actually second-choice to Joshua King at Bournemouth last season, but at least we know he's in the mix with his new club.

In all, we've seen 18 of 20 penalty attempts converted this season, with Chelsea's Jorginho and Sheffield United's John Lundstram the only unsuccessful takers, both having their tries saved.

Meanwhile, we saw a few first-time corner takers this past Gameweek, with Patrick Bamford taking two of Leeds' seven chances while Kalvin Phillips (three) and Jack Harrison (two) took the others. Bamford didn't cross either, while Phillips and Harrison crossed all of their chances. In addition to Bamford, we saw Steven Bergwijn (two), Grady Diangana (one) and Roberto Firmino (one) take at least one corner after failing to do so in the first two games, with Bergwijn and Diangana actually crossing theirs. Mason Mount, Pascal Gross Ryan Bertrand, Matt Ritchie and Erik Lamela were also on that list, though they have a history of taking set pieces anyway, so their additions shouldn't be unexpected.

Here are the free-kick breakdowns for Gameweek 3, followed by the penalties for the season:

Note: all columns are sortable.

Legend: MIN = minutes, CRN = corners taken, FK CR = free-kick cross, FK S = free-kick shots

If you'd like to see a match-by-match breakdown for each team, check out our Team Trends pages.

Gameweek 3 Set Pieces
Player	Team	OPP	H/A	Form	POS	MIN	CRN	CRNCR	FKCR	FKS
Nicolas Pepe	ARS	LIV	A	343	SUB	22	2	2	0	0
Dani Ceballos	ARS	LIV	A	343	SUB	30	1	1	0	0
Conor Hourihane	AVL	FUL	A	433	MC	77	1	0	3	0
John McGinn	AVL	FUL	A	433	MC	90	2	1	2	0
Solomon March	BHA	MUN	H	343	ML	90	2	1	2	0
Pascal Gross	BHA	MUN	H	343	SUB	16	3	3	1	0
Leandro Trossard	BHA	MUN	H	343	FWR	90	2	2	1	0
Ashley Westwood	BRN	SOU	H	442	MC	90	6	5	1	0
Dwight McNeil	BRN	SOU	H	442	ML	90	2	2	1	0
Josh Brownhill	BRN	SOU	H	442	MR	90	0	0	0	1
Reece James	CHE	WBA	A	4231	DR	90	5	5	0	0
Mason Mount	CHE	WBA	A	4231	AMR	90	4	4	0	0
Marcos Alonso	CHE	WBA	A	4231	DL	45	0	0	0	1
Andros Townsend	CRY	EVE	H	442	MR	90	6	6	2	0
Eberechi Eze	CRY	EVE	H	442	ML	75	1	1	1	0
James Rodriguez	EVE	CRY	A	433	FWR	86	6	4	0	1
Lucas Digne	EVE	CRY	A	433	DL	90	0	0	2	0
Ivan Cavaleiro	FUL	AVL	H	343	FWL	90	3	3	0	0
Tom Cairney	FUL	AVL	H	343	MC	90	2	2	0	0
Joe Bryan	FUL	AVL	H	343	ML	90	0	0	1	0
Neeskens Kebano	FUL	AVL	H	343	SUB	12	0	0	1	0
Kalvin Phillips	LEE	SHU	A	3142	DMC	90	3	3	3	0
Patrick Bamford	LEE	SHU	A	3142	FW	90	2	0	0	0
Jack Harrison	LEE	SHU	A	3142	ML	90	2	2	0	0
Mateusz Klich	LEE	SHU	A	3142	AMC	90	0	0	1	0
Youri Tielemans	LEI	MCI	A	541	MC	90	3	1	0	0
Andrew Robertson	LIV	ARS	H	433	DL	90	5	5	2	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	LIV	ARS	H	433	DR	90	1	1	0	0
Roberto Firmino	LIV	ARS	H	433	FW	89	1	0	0	0
Riyad Mahrez	MCI	LEI	H	4231	AMR	90	2	2	0	0
Kevin De Bruyne	MCI	LEI	H	4231	AMC	90	1	1	0	0
Raheem Sterling	MCI	LEI	H	4231	FW	90	0	0	0	1
Bruno Fernandes	MUN	BHA	A	4231	AMC	90	1	1	3	0
Matt Ritchie	NEW	TOT	A	541	DL	69	2	2	2	0
Jonjo Shelvey	NEW	TOT	A	541	MC	90	2	2	0	0
Ben Osborn	SHU	LEE	H	352	MC	90	3	3	0	0
John Lundstram	SHU	LEE	H	352	MC	64	1	1	1	0
Oliver Norwood	SHU	LEE	H	352	SUB	26	1	1	0	0
Ryan Bertrand	SOU	BRN	A	442	DL	90	2	2	0	0
Giovani Lo Celso	TOT	NEW	H	4231	AMC	77	4	4	0	1
Son Heung-Min	TOT	NEW	H	4231	AML	45	3	2	1	0
Steven Bergwijn	TOT	NEW	H	4231	SUB	45	2	2	0	0
Erik Lamela	TOT	NEW	H	4231	SUB	11	1	0	0	1
Matheus Pereira	WBA	CHE	H	541	MR	89	2	2	3	0
Grady Diangana	WBA	CHE	H	541	ML	74	1	1	0	0
Matthew Phillips	WBA	CHE	H	541	SUB	16	0	0	1	0
Aaron Cresswell	WHU	WOL	H	541	DC	90	1	1	1	0
Pedro Neto	WOL	WHU	A	343	FWL	90	2	2	0	0
Joao Moutinho	WOL	WHU	A	343	MC	73	1	0	0	0

Legend: PK = penalty attempts, PKG = penalty goals, PKM = penalties missed, PKSVD = penalties saved

Player	Team	MIN	PK	PKG	PKSVD
Neal Maupay	BHA	270	2	2	0
Jorginho	CHE	164	2	1	1
Wilfried Zaha	CRY	270	1	1	0
Richarlison	EVE	269	1	1	0
Aleksandar Mitrovic	FUL	207	1	1	0
Mateusz Klich	LEE	261	1	1	0
Jamie Vardy	LEI	265	4	4	0
Youri Tielemans	LEI	270	1	1	0
Mohamed Salah	LIV	270	2	2	0
Kevin De Bruyne	MCI	180	1	1	0
Bruno Fernandes	MUN	180	1	1	0
Callum Wilson	NEW	265	1	1	0
John Lundstram	SHU	244	1	0	1
Danny Ings	SOU	270	1	1	0