- Aug 5, 2008
- 11,856
- 69,553
My problem with goal and assist stats is that they don't give the number of chances he set up for other players who were so piss poor that they fluffed the chance, with strikers worth the name his assists stat would have been higher.
The PL stats website has him down as creating 6 "big chances" last season.
The only Fulham players who ranked higher were Bryan (8) and Seri (7), both of whom didn't change position anywhere near as often.
For comparison, our "chances created" stats were as follows:
Eriksen: 10
Trippier: 8
Kane: 7
Alli: 6
Son: 5
Davies: 4
Other big players in the league were as follows:
Fraser (BOU): 28(!)
Hazard (CHE): 18
Salah (LIV), D Silva (MCI): 16
Robertson (LIV): 15
Digne (EVE), Jimenez (WOL), Maddison (LEI), Wilson (BOU): 13
Sterling (MCI): 12
TAA (LIV), De Bruyne (MCI), Luiz (CHE), Sane (MCI), Sigurdsson (EVE): 11
Does go quite a long way toward explaining why we struggled to score anywhere near as many goals as in previous seasons - we just didn't create the chances.
Also demonstrates that Ryan Sessegnon isn't that far behind any of our existing senior players for chances created, especially given he was played in a multitude of positions and in a team which struggled to keep hold of the ball.
(*Edit: these stats are for big chances created but not converted. Actual assists are additional to these, and we only had one player who out-performed Sessegnon on assists - Christian Eriksen with 12 compared to Sessegnon's 6.
No Fulham player registered more assists than Sessegnon.
Our second-highest assister was Son Heung-Min, who got 6, the same as Sessegnon)