These ten players have played
more key passes in the opening two matches of the World Cup than any other so far...
Morata's underlying stats also dominate Lacazette's on a per game basis, registering
more key passes (1.5 to 1.3), winning more aerial duels (1.5 to 0.8) and recording more shots (3.5 to 1.5).
Other players like Ozil, Walcott, Ox and Xhaka should improve their ball possession skills and try to create
more key passes, like our technically gifted players, Cazorla and Sanchez.
Barcelona are famed for slick, precision tika - tac football (although not so much since Pep left)-- but our pass completion is within 1 % of theirs, we have
more key passes per game and more chances created.
The Manchester City man played
more key passes last season at club level than any player in Europe, and while he translated this creative form to the World Cup — it didn't stop his country from crashing out.
The 25 - year - old has completed more successful passes (59 to 43), created more chances (1.4 to 1),
more key passes (1.3 to 1) and has won more tackles (1.9 to 1.2) per game.
Messi has scored more goals (15 to 1), registered more assists (7 to 0), made
more key passes (1.5 to 0.9), created more chances (1.9 to 0.9) and completed more dribbles (4.1 to 1.6) per game.
Payet is not a ball winner, he will not help when we don't have the ball, but he has
more key passes per game than any other player in Europes top five leagues!
A struggling Sanchez can still produce 7 league goals in 19 Premier League appearances, 18 through balls,
more key passes and chances than Martial plus Rashford combined.
More key passes, Giroud should easily have better figures here as he has better players around him making things happen.
He has completed more successful dribbles, 24, and
more key passes, 18, than any other player in the competition.
he touched the ball more than any other player, completed more passes, played
more key passes, created the most chances and was an inch away from scoring.
Morata has
more key passes, and he shoots more (surprising), but there is a good gap between his xG / 90 and G / 90.
Hector Bellerin played
more key passes than anyone else on the field in the first half, creating chances for Danny Welbeck and Alex Lacazette..
The 22 - year - old averages the highest number of shots per 90 in the Newcastle squad and only Jonjo Shelvey and Matt Ritchie play
more key passes.
He's making
more key passes and completing more dribbles than he did during his last full season with the Gunners.
Nuri Sahin — Although he missed virtually the entire 2011/12 season through injury, he was the player of the year in Germany in 2010/11 (making
more key passes than any player in England did last season), so Sahin certainly should turn out to be a decent acquisition.
Though Marcus Rashford has been preferred of late, according to whoscored.com Martial has registered more assists (4 to 1),
more key passes per game (1 to 0.7) and more dribbles per game (1.4 to 0.9) than his wing rival having played more than four hours less in the Premier League.
He has already surpassed the seven assists he supplied last season (9) and making
more key passes per 90 this season in open play (1.83 vs. 1.33).
Willian has played
more key passes in the Champions League this season than any other Chelsea player.
, but only Rooney has made
more key passes and assists for United this season, and yesterday his contribution was obvious.
Not exact matches
Perhaps
more disturbing was what the note went on to say: «To retrieve the private
key» — the secret
pass code that would unlock his electronic property — «you need to pay.»
So the vacationing Carl Scott made the following observation that I think deserves
more attention than it will get in the comments section: The
key here is Peter's 35 state claim [Peter Lawler
passing on a story from the Politico that Santorum would lose 35 states.]
Ozil was
more dangerous when he was receiving
key passes and through - balls from Sanchez.
Solid enough defensively, while his
passing was
key to getting United moving forward with
more tempo and directness.
The Arsenal forward has recorded
more passes (36),
key passes (2.5), successful dribbles (2) and shots (3.3) per game, while also producing
more assists (2).
He crosses the ball
more than any other player in the Premier League makes a division record of 3.3
key passes per match.
The foundation is set with culture and cohesion, now it's a non-linear mix of five
keys: increasing collective execution through impact players (Garoppolo, maybe Foster, # 9 pick) adding playmakers that win situational mismatches (McKinnon, edge, red zone WR / TE) accelerating development through position group leader / mentors (Sherman, Richburg, need
more) taking weaknesses off the field (Hyde in the
passing game, Kilgore, current starting G, roster deadwood) converting young talent into consistent reliable producers (most of the defensive starters and Garnett)
There isn't anyone in the PL that has
more «
key»
passes than Ozil.
Campbell needs games he has pace and that's
key in winning
more games, the slow
passing game is not working at all we require speed!
People who are praising fabregas now forgot that ozil has
more assist and
key passes than him when they both played in two best teams in spain (although fabregas got less chances but still ozil has highest assists in europe).
Ozil is also outperforming Sane for
key passes, crosses and shots, while he has won
more set - pieces and has been dispossessed less.
Elneny has been better that Rambo, puts
more miles in and
key passes, i.e. assist for ozil in midweek
So how is a pre-assist
more relevant than
key pass?
There were
more than a few people who called Penn State's victory over Ohio State flukey, due to Penn State winning thanks to a blocked FG attempt and a few TD drives
keyed by explosive
passes.
Damian made eight interceptions —
more than any other player — and looked composed on the ball, providing two
key passes.
I'm not saying Ozil wasn't outstanding last season but
key passes is far
more helpful.
IWOBI WILSHERE RAMSEY XHAKA OZIL Appearances 16 (4) 11 (8) 18 (2) 31 (1) 24 (2) Goals 2 1 6 1 4 Assists 5 2 6 5 8
Key passes / game 1.4 0.7 1.2 1 3.2 Dribbles / game 1.3 2.3 1.1 0.5 1.4 Disposessed / game 1.3 1.2 1.4 0.6 1.2 So, I really don't understand why Iwobi is
more criticized than any other arsenal midfielder.
Benzema also assists
more, and Benzema has way better
passing metrics such as
key passes,
pass completion rate and successful
passes than giroud.
Key passes are
passes that lead to shots, and Dzeko has slightly
more of those per game (KP90) as well as
more assists per game (4 assists, and 0 for Balotelli this season).
Jorginho's impressiveness is not only belied by the fact he makes 1.7
key passes per ninety minutes (per Understat) but that,
more subtly, his xGBuildUp (that is, how often he's involved in the build - up to Napoli's goalscoring) is at 0.59 — in comparison Emre Can's is hovering around half that at 0.36 (again, per Understat).
In league action, only Falcao and Kylian Mbappé directly contributed to
more goals than his nine strikes and nine assists, while his average of 2.1
key passes per game is a team - high.
In 22 La Liga starts, he has notched up ten assists and played
more than 70
key passes —
more than Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo combined.
The 22 - year old, widely regarded as one of the world's most promising centre backs, spent
more than three years at Everton where he built a reputation as a ball - playing, 21st century defender, equally adept at neutralising opposition attacks as launching the first
key pass out of the defensive third.
Indeed last term he averaged
more tackles, interceptions,
key passes and completed dribbles than both.
It summed up his knack of finding himself in the heart of the action, registering four
key passes -
more than anyone else on the pitch - and also putting in a real shift defensively, making
more tackles than any of his team - mates (4).
His 13
key passes completed this season can only be bettered by Fletcher's 17, although the Scot has always possessed a natural inclination to get forward, while you're
more likely to see Carvalho securely stationed in front of the defence.
He averaged 2.2
key passes per game last season, which is considerably
more than Ramsey's 1, Rakitic's 0.8 and Lallana's 1.4.
It really should have been
more than just the two, his only
key pass in the game had potential when he attempted to play through Danny Welbeck, too much on it.
Schneiderlin displays for Southampton suggested a player with the potential to develop into a far
more complete midfielder but a significant drop in
key passes (1.2 to 0.5) and shots per game (0.8 to 0.2) for United compared to his final season at Southampton suggest the offensive aspect of his game has been neutered.