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How does this world cup compare to previous tournaments? Take a look at the data • Get the data Well, we’re at the end of the group stage of World Cup 2010 and what have we learnt so far? Opta (this is their Twitter feed ), which covers 30 different sports in around 70 countries, has agreed to let the Datablog publish the complete statistical analysisall the games so far in the tournament. Owen Gibson writes today that “At the end of Spain’s shock defeat by Switzerland, which may actually prove to be the moment at which the tournament caught fire, there had been a total of 1.56 goals per game.” Opta’s statistics, which measure the opening round of games against the same stage at the last three World Cups, show that the goal per game ratio compares poorly. In Germany in 2006, it was 2.44, in Japan-South Korea in 2002 it was 2.88 and at France 98 it was 2.31 … Opta’s figures show that the number of shots in each game is about 10% down on 2006. They also show that the goals-to-shots ratio, at 7.9%, is also well down. In the past three tournaments, it never went below 10.8% in the opening round of matches. Shooting accuracy – the ratio of shots to efforts on target – is 33% at this World Cup so far, compared with 40% at the same stage in Germany, 43% in Japan-South Korea and 41% in France. At the top of the page is how we visualised the data in today’s paper (click on it to get the full graphic) – you can download the data below too. What can you do with it? Download the data • DATA: download the full datasheet World government data • Search the world’s government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Data summary World Cup 2010 Fifa World Cup 2010 Group A World Cup 2010 Group B World Cup 2010 Group C World Cup 2010 Group D World Cup 2010 Group E England Simon Rogers guardian.co.uk

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Opta world cup 2010 data: every shot, every tackle and every goal