They often say that if you don't shoot, you don't score - but do more shots mean more goals? Watford and Crystal Palace both registered winning goals without hitting a single shot on target in 2016/17 - both from own goals. The graphic below shows 7,416 combinations between teams' shots on target and resulting goals in games over the past decade. The most common is registering three shots on target and scoring one goal. The most common here is four shots on target - which averages at 1.3 goals.
Source: Sky sports April 05, 2020 06:56 UTC