Wayne Rooney says his former England team-mate Frank Lampard would have registered low expected goals (xG) scores despite being prolific from long range.
Rooney suggested on the podcast that the Premier League is being affected by club owners' obsession with expected goals (xG).
He believes that because of that obsession, top-flight players are taking fewer long-range shots.
"Owners want high xG because they think if you've got high xG you've got more chance to win the game," he said.
"What they want is the closer you get to the goal, the higher the xG is. So teams are actually not shooting from the edge of the box any more."
The stats back up Rooney's point. In the Premier League so far this season, there have been 7.3 shots outside the box per game, whereas nine seasons ago, in the 2016-17 campaign, the average was 10.5.
"Actually, if you've got Frank Lampard for instance, who had lots of shots from the edge of the box, his xG would be really low. But he scored 200-and-odd goals in his career," added Rooney.
"Players get all of the footage, they're the training sessions in the classrooms of what they're doing, which is fine, but I think a lot of players now are relying on it [footage and data] too much."