The numbers rarely lie, and over the last 30 hours they have been shouting. BSD's live tracking captured 73 fixtures, scattered across friendlies and the first stirrings of competitive football, and by the final whistle the goal tally had hit 267. That works out at 3.66 per game, a figure inflated by one result so extreme it belongs in the record books rather than a pre-season roundup.
Sassuolo put 22 past AC Alta Anaunia in a Club Friendly that doubled as both the highest-scoring match and the widest margin of victory logged in the period. The Serie A outfit's onslaught left the amateur side from Trentino reeling, conceding at a rate of more than one goal every four minutes. It is the sort of scoreline that prompts questions about matchmaking and preparation rather than tactical analysis, but the data does not judge, it simply records.
Clean sheets still in fashion
Elsewhere, defences held firm in 31 of the 73 matches, meaning goalkeepers managed a clean sheet in roughly 42 per cent of fixtures. That is a respectable rate given the average goals per game, and it underlines that not every team spent the period leaking goals at Sassuolo-like velocity. The spread tells its own story: friendlies can be laboratories for experimenting with systems or run-outs for fringe players, but once the whistle goes, the data treats every goal the same.
BSD's tracking spans leagues, cups and warm-up matches, capturing every strike in decimal xG and every save attempt. Across 30 hours, the platform logged it all, from routine two-goal friendlies to a 22-goal anomaly that will sit atop the leaderboard until someone, somewhere, decides to go one better.