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Twelve marks, three meanings.

The stroke count looks simple. The boundary between on target, off target and blocked depends on whose event definitions are being used.

Fictional Team A set12 attempts in an invented 90-minute recordOpta-style teaching classification; not Opta data

The classification tally

Illustration 02 / Team A attempts
On target4

Includes 1 goal; the other 3 stand for saves or qualifying last-line interventions.

Off target5

Includes 1 attempt that hit the woodwork and did not enter the goal.

Blocked3

Defender blocks with a goalkeeper or other defender still behind the blocker.

All classified attempts in this invented set4 + 5 + 3 = 12

Classification source: Stats Perform, Opta Event Definitions (undated; accessed 26 Sep 2026). Marks and counts are invented, not collected by Opta.

Separate blank paper pockets awaiting classified observations
Conceptual desk photograph: separate pockets suggest classification, not shot counts or match data. The fictional HTML tally and Opta definition source remain above.

Recorded

Under this Opta-style illustration, a non-goal woodwork attempt is off target. A last-line block can be on target; a block with someone still behind the defender is counted separately here. The denominator is all 12 classified Team A attempts in this invented set.

Still unknown

Another provider may classify or total attempts differently. We do not know shot locations, Team B attempts or a real collector’s revisions. Do not apply this partition as a universal total-shots definition.

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