Prem club's most important players so far.

[Shadydan]

https://www.planetfootball.com/quic...lscorer-chance-creator-dribbler-tackler-more/

Found this site which collates every PL club’s best goalscorer, chance creator, dribbler, tackler & more

Some really interesting shit here, given the info we can see that:

- An injury to Salah or VVD and Liverpool are in trouble however if they stay fit they'll be incredibly hard to stop.

- Man City will go up a level when they get De Bruyne and Aguero fit. Normally those two rank high on these charts, also shows you how important Fernandinho is.

- Eriksen is kinda important, interesting thing is that he's hasn't been at his best but still amongst our highest assister and chance creator. Our highest tacklers are our full backs who arguably aren't first choice, suggests we can go up a level if everyone is fit and firing.

- Chelsea are over reliant on Hazard, he tops goals scored, assists, chances created and dribbles, if he's off his game then Chelsea will struggle and if he gets injured their season is done.

- Arsenal are fairly balanced. Interesting that Ozil isn't first choice but still the highest chance creator however Arsenal still create chances when he's not in the team, suggests that they don't need him.

- Utd also fairly balanced and need to stick with Martial and Pogba if they want to go forward, that much was obvious.

Other things I noticed: Idrissa Gueye's defensive stats for Everton are mental and that's probably a reason why we ran through them so easily as he was missing.

Felipe Anderson is West Ham's Hazard, again a dip in form or an injury to him then they will suffer.

Looks like there's justified hype for Palace's Aaron Wan-Bissaka, his tackles and interception stats for a rookie RB is very very impressive.

 

[nailsy]

Does anyone know why our interception stat is so low? Is it because we have a lot of possession, because we rotate players, or are we just crap at that part of the game?

Interceptions: Lucas Moura, Ben Davies, Dele Alli & Eric Dier (15)

Moura's obviously been working on the defensive part of his game.

 

[Shadydan]

Does anyone know why our interception stat is so low? Is it because we have a lot of possession, because we rotate players, or are we just crap at that part of the game?

Interceptions: Lucas Moura, Ben Davies, Dele Alli & Eric Dier (15)

Moura's obviously been working on the defensive part of his game.

It's not that low actually, just compared them to other teams and we have around about the same total interceptions across the team as Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City (172), Liverpool have 150 odd.

We just don't have a dominant player who we rely on for interceptions which is good because it's spread around the team.

 

[hellava_tough]

I think our full-back tackling stats are interesting

It suggests that the opposition consistently has a go at our full-backs; that they're not afraid to commit players in this area, because if they lose the ball, they know that our full-backs aren't super quick or skillful, allowing them to break with pace to punish them

Not that the likes of Davies or Tripper are bad players, but I think we've never replaced the attacking threat of Walker and Rose at the height of their powers (16 17 season)