The Argentine created
more chances for his team mates last year than Suarez, Ronaldo, Messi, James Rodriguez and Gareth Bale, yet there are still detractors queueing up to put a negative spin on the transfer.
Not exact matches
Per Mertesacker has thrown out a warning shot to his
team -
mates who may not get
more chances for Arsenal thanks to dismal display.
Do not get me wrong, he is in great form at the moment, but usually he needs 4 - 5
chances / game to score 1 goal,
more deadlier finisher scores 1,5 - 2 goals / game (Aguero, Costa, even Kane)
for the
chances created by his
team mates.
The Arsenal and England international forward Theo Walcott might well be feeling glad to be training with his England
team mates and under the supervision of Roy Hodgson at the moment, because he seems to have a lot
more chance of getting a game
for his country than his club.
His blistering run of form has seen him streak ahead in the race to be the Premier League's top scorer
for 2013/14, and he's recently shown a
more selfless side to his abilities, switching around at the front with Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge in order to create
chances for his
team mates.
The German international has already created 16
chances for his
team mates this season — only Mark Noble has created
more with 17 — and has the best minutes per
chance created record (21.13) in the Premier League.
Despite playing just three games
more than Eriksen [Silva 14 games to Eriksen's 11] the Spanish international has created 51
chances for his Manchester City
team -
mates, just one behind Eden Hazard in the top creativity stats this season.
As I've mentioned on here previously, credit here has to go to Steven Gerrard; most of his time last season was spent in the static midfield of Roy Hodgson's
team (he only made five appearances under Dalglish), and yet he created a
chance for a
team -
mate more regularly than any of the other players studied here.