Here are some Royal stats to analyze the first and second round of the group stages:

TThe World Cup has been gifted with a nations that are prime in group football over individual solo efforts. While they don’t neglect the latter, they understand in the group stage, that the group is over individuals, and that potentially they can use solo efforts by their stars in decisive knockout stages to inspire different possibilities.

1. 35% of the goals obtained in the 2018 FIFA World Cup have exploited dead-ball situations and 1/6th of the goals have occurred from the penalty-spot.

   While in terms of goals scored it has been 44 right footed and 25 footed, the right footed players when assisting have around the double of the numbers, 31 assists with right foot and 14 assists with the left foot.

   England tops with 5 right footed assists and Belgium with 4 left footed assists.
   England has been doing his homework properly with 5 goals happening from set-pieces, the highest in the tournament. The same stands for penalty-kicks where they have scored two of them already. England keeps topping the competition in several stats, adding goals through headers one more to it, they have 3 goals scored, more than any other nation.

2. Players Passes
   1 Isco – Spain - 215
   2 Toni Kroos – Germany - 212
   3 Sergio Ramos – Spain - 211
   4 Marcelo – Brazil - 207
   5 Javier Mascherano – Argentina – 202

   Player Touches
   1 Isco – Spain - 680
   2 Toni Kroos – Germany - 608
   3 Jerome Boateng – Germany - 580
   4 Marcelo – Brazil - 554
   5 Javier Mascherano – Argentina – 552

   Player Shots
   1 Lionel Messi – Argentina - 12
   2 Cristiano Ronaldo – Portugal - 10
   3 Toni Kroos – Germany - 10
   4 Neymar – Brazil - 10
   5 Philippe Coutinho – Brazil - 10

   Player Tackles
   1 Valon Behrami – Switzerland - 11
   2 Hector Herrera – Mexico - 10
   3 Aaron Mooy – Australia - 10
   4 Roman Zobnin – Russia - 9
   5 Onyinye Ndidi – Nigeria – 9

   Player Clearances
   1 Henrik Dalsgaard – Denmark - 16
   2 Ahmed Hegazy – Egypt - 15
   3 Andreas Granqvist – Sweden - 15
   4 Mark Milligan – Australia - 14
   5 Hordur Magnusson – Iceland - 14

Now about the charts related to right footed goals:
England 5
Croatia 4
Russia, Spain, Belgium, Senegal 3

Left Footed goals:
Belgium 4
Russia 3
Denmark, Switzerland 2

Goals through Headers:
England 3
Russia 2

Goals from Set-Pieces:
England 5
Portugal 3
Croatia, Japan, Uruguay, Australia, Tunisia 2

Right Footed Assists to Goal:
Belgium 6
Russia 3
Uruguay, Portugal, Denmark, Mexico, Tunisia, Brazil, England 2

Left Footed Assists to Goal:
Colombia 3
Japan 2
Russia, Argentina, Switzerland, Serbia, South Korea, Germany, England, Panama, Senegal 1

Assists through headers:
Spain, Croatia, Belgium, England 1

FULL - 2 rounds of the Group Stages

85 goals scored in total
49 assists to the 85 goals (58%)
25 left footed goals (29%) (14 assists with the left foot – 16%)
44 right footed goals (52%) (31 assists with the right foot – 36%)
16 headed goals (19%) (4 assists through headers – 5%)
3 own goals (4%)
30 goals coming from set-pieces (35%)
4 goals coming from direct free-kicks (5%)
13 goals out of 85, are penalty-kicks (15%)

Breakdown in details from 1st round & 2nd round of Group Stages:

In the 1st Round of Group Stages we have seen teams developing 50% of its goals as grouped efforts and with the same number, 50%, we see the influence of the dead-ball situations and included in that percentage, the penalty-kicks collect 18% of its influence. While right footed players are a huge majority in practicing football worldwide professionally, it was a narrow performance vs. left footed player in this World Cup – first round of group stages.

38 goals scored in total
18 assists out of 38 goals (47%)
9 left footed goals (24%) (4 assists with the left foot – 11%)
19 right footed goals (50%) (10 assists with the right foot – 25%)
10 headed goals (26%) (4 assists through headers – 11%)
2 own goals (5%)
19 goals coming from set-pieces (50%)
4 goals coming from direct free-kicks (11%)
7 goals out of 38, are penalty-kicks (18%)

In the 2nd Round of Group Stages in comparison from the 1st, we have witnessed a group in numbers in most departments. 47 goals opposed to 38 goals.
Goals using a concerted team ability have been providing 31 assists over 19 assists since the 1st round (66% vs. 50%).
Spotted an increase performance of left and right footed goals, while left footed went from 24% to 34%, we saw the right footed goals rising from 50% to 53%.
Overall a great round 2 of the group stage where teams have gone from scoring 31 goals rising that number to 47 goals.
While goals through headers have decreased from 26% to 13%, we have also seen a decline in set-pieces going from 50% to 23% and in terms of penalty-kicks going from 18% to 13%.

47 goals scored in total
31 assists out of 47 goals (66%)
16 left footed goals (34%) (10 assists with the left foot – 21%)
25 right footed goals (53%) (21 assists with the right foot – 45%)
6 headed goals (13%) (0 assists through headers – 0%)
1 own goal (2%)
11 goals coming from set-pieces (23%)
0 goals coming from direct free-kicks (0%)
6 goals out of 47, are penalty-kicks (13%)