100 Long Balls, No Goals: Bolton v Hull Stats

Another day, another defeat. Bolton Wanderers made it three defeats from four and more alarmingly one win from 11 after Fraizer Campbell’s goal proved enough to give Hull City all three points on Saturday.

Here are the usual stats from the match, plus a few more in-depth ones below. Fans of pointing out how many long balls we try to play will be interested in the fact we actually reached three figures on that metric.

Bolton Wanderers subs
Buckley on for Dyer (67)
Magennis on for Olkowski (81)

Hull City subs
Mazuch on for Bowen (66)
Dicko on for Grosicki (72)
Stewart on for Batty (80)

Passing
Success rate – 68%
Aerials won – 54%
Total – 486 (364 short, 100 long, 20 crosses)

Attacking areas
Our attacks – 31.4% left, 27.9% middle, 40.7% right
Them down our side – 47.8% our left, 17.1% middle, 35.1% right

Shot distances
Us – None in the six-yard box, 10 in the 18-yard box, 6 outside the area.
Hull – Four in the 18-yard box, three outside. None in the six-yard box.

Action areas
23.5% – Our third
41.5% – Middle third
34.9% – Final third

Bolton Wanderers				Hull City
				Campbell
Ben Alnwick				David Marshall
Marc Wilson				Eric Lichaj
Jack Hobbs				Tommy Elphick
Mark Beevers				Robbie McKenzie
Pawel Olkowski				Stephen Kingsley
Joe Williams				Jarrod Bowen
Josh Vela				Daniel Batty
Lloyd Dyer				Jackson Irvine
Erhun Oztumer				Markus Henriksen
Clayton Donaldson				Kamil Grosicki
Christian Doidge				Fraizer Campbell
Substitutes
Remi Matthews				George Long
Mark Little				Ondrzej Mazuch
Andy Taylor				Kevin Stewart
Will Buckley				Nouha Dicko
Luke Murphy				Todd Kane
Josh Magennis				Will Keane
David Wheater				Chris Martin

Game Statistics
16	Goal attempts	7
3	On Target	2
3	Corners	2
12	Fouls	13
1	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
55	%	45