Kane, Werner, Lacazette: The 10 worst Premier League finishers in 2021/22

Tottenham’s Son Heung-min became the 25th Premier League player to scoop the competition’s Golden Boot last weekend – with his 23 goals in the 2021/22 campaign enough to see him share the prize with Liverpool’s Mo Salah.

His strike partner Harry Kane finished the season with just six goals less, but the two men’s ‘expected goals’ couldn’t be any further apart.

Essentially, the metric allows us to track which players have scored more goals than they should have done over the course of the season based on the quality of the chances they’ve had.

According to statistics provided by the guys over at FBref, Son outperformed his expected non-penalty return by an impressive 6.6 goals – the second-best figures in the whole competition.

Kane, meanwhile, was more than four goals short of his predicted tally.

Although his actual haul of 17 goals was still enough to see Kane finish fourth in the Premier League’s goalscoring charts, the England captain will naturally be disappointed by his conversion rate.

The 2021/22 Premier League quiz of the season

Below, we’ve taken a look at the 10 worst offenders for squandering golden opportunities in the English top-flight in 2021/22.

To prevent the stats from being unfairly skewed, we’ve looked at each player’s ratio excluding penalty-kicks.

Let’s now find out who the competition’s worst finishers were across the campaign.

10. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)Non-penalty G-xG: -2.4

City have finally solved their striker conundrum with the addition of Erling Haaland from next season. That signing will likely see Jesus moving away from the Etihad. In a side packed with so much talent, the fact the Brazilian hasn’t been able to at least match his expected goals ratio doesn’t bode well for his