diff --git a/football_matches/scraping.ipynb b/football_matches/scraping.ipynb
index 23609e6..2b37ad0 100644
--- a/football_matches/scraping.ipynb
+++ b/football_matches/scraping.ipynb
@@ -620,6 +620,15 @@
     "        data = requests.get(f\"https://fbref.com{links[0]}\")\n",
     "        shooting = pd.read_html(data.text, match=\"Shooting\")[0]\n",
     "        shooting.columns = shooting.columns.droplevel()\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        newShootingCols = [\"Date\", \"Sh\", \"SoT\", \"Dist\", \"FK\", \"PK\", \"PKatt\"]\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        # In less recent seasons, some of the expected shooting columns might not be present.\n",
+    "        # This loop avoids a merging error by creating empty columns\n",
+    "        for newCol in newShootingCols:\n",
+    "            if newCol not in shooting.columns:\n",
+    "                shooting[newCol] = np.nan\n",
+    "                \n",
     "        try:\n",
     "            team_data = matches.merge(shooting[[\"Date\", \"Sh\", \"SoT\", \"Dist\", \"FK\", \"PK\", \"PKatt\"]], on=\"Date\")\n",
     "        except ValueError:\n",