Player Watch Player Watch: Ryan Sessegnon

[freeeki]

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)

 

[Duskwen]

On the bench today (as is AWB)

 

[eddiev14]

Basically sounds like Sessegnon needs to play with much better players and work with a manager who knows how take a player’s raw ingredients and significantly build on them.

I mean, if he’s smart he’s got to be desperate to join us if we’re interested.

 

[Yiddo100]

Coming on for the second half

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Coming on for the second half

Fucking handsome. The clan are in the hot tub and I’ve got the telly. Will scout the fuck out of him for the next 45 minutes

 

[Yiddo100]

Fucking handsome. The clan are in the hot tub and I’ve got the telly. Will scout the fuck out of him for the next 45 minutes

He did just beat the first man from a corner, so looks positive

 

[Colonel Dax]

Sess injured. Welcome to Tottenham.

 

[Yiddo100]

Andddd he’s injured (maybe)

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Fuck it- get him home and complete the deal

 

[Martin91]

Coming on for the second half

And he’s off injured

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Is it bad that I want England U21s to crash and burn in this tournament to speed up Sessegnon?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Is it bad that I want England U21s to crash and burn in this tournament to speed up Sessegnon?

It’s happening

 

[WorthATry]

What was the nature of his injury?

 

[BringBack_leGin]

What was the nature of his injury?

I’m going to guess it’s chronic, in need of continuous management and likely to limit how many games he can play per week knowing our luck.

 

[Yiddo100]

What was the nature of his injury?

Didn’t show, just shown him sat on floor so presume a muscle injury

 

[Johnny J]

I’m going to guess it’s chronic, in need of continuous management and likely to limit how many games he can play per week knowing our luck.

Also can only do swimming training.

 

[mil1lion]

Faking injury so he can join us already. He's just as impatient as the rest of us.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Fucking handsome. The clan are in the hot tub and I’ve got the telly. Will scout the fuck out of him for the next 43 seconds

 

[ravo]

What's the prognosis, doc?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

What's the prognosis, doc?

The world’s a piece of filthy shit