The Championship is so often the home of thrills, spills and goals – and plenty of them. But not so much this season.
After 15 rounds there have been 435 goals in 180 matches, which is 57 fewer than we had at this stage last season.
It’s a four-year low – so where have all the goals gone?
“We have to keep this in context because we’re comparing it to last season which was absolutely bonkers, where at times it just seemed like all-out attack,” former Leyton Orient and Reading winger Jobi McAnuff told the BBC’s 72+ podcast.
“The teams who came down, like Burnley and Sheffield United, also weren’t in the greatest of shape either.”
Of the top 10 sides in the division, only four have scored more than 20 goals.
Last season, when we had had 492 goals by this stage, each of the top 10 sides had scored more than 20 times in their first 15 matches.
The top two of Leicester and Ipswich were sweeping through all before them and had mustered 62 goals in total. This campaign, Sunderland and Sheffield United have 44.
Former Derby County defender Curtis Davies believes it might partly be down to the type of players clubs have signed.
“It’s also a symptom of the tactics now in that clubs are signing forwards, not centre-forwards,” he told the podcast.
“People will say they want a number nine but they also want him to drop in and do other things, not just stay around the box and only get involved when he needs to.”