Hany Mukhtar’s 2022 Shots on Target

Hany Mukhtar is well on his way to an MLS MVP candidacy this season, so I wanted to take a look at Hany’s goal finishing ability. I’ve recently gotten a lot of practice with the {worldfootbalR} package, which is an incredible useful packages that provides a wrapper for extracting data from football data providers like FotMob.

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Interesting… to date, all of Hany’s goals have been scored inside the penalty area.

I’m generally pretty proud of the result. I spent a decent chunk of time trying to find a R package that would produce a table that could be inset into my ggplot object, but struggled to find one where I could also customize (e.g. font face).

You can reference my source code for this plot here — I’m happy to answer any questions about my process or code. Thanks for reading!