21 of those players have completed
more key passes per 90 minutes than his 1.6, so a positive summer showing will be integral to his chances of progression.
So if it has taken him 3 months to round into form, how
many more key passes per 90 should he have been averaging?
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).
These ten players have
played more key passes in the opening two matches of the World Cup than any other so far...
Only Mesut Ozil
averages more key passes per 90 minutes than Payet this season and West Ham have lost just five times with their talisman in the side.
Willian has played
more key passes in the Champions League this season than any other Chelsea player.
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.
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.
According to the Football Whispers lab, per 90 minutes, no one in the league
completes more key passes from open play or completes more take ons, but his xG ranks him 35th in the Premier League and his xA is only 14th best.
His 87.6 per cent pass accuracy is a notch below Carrick's (90.1 per cent), though still more than respectable, while he also averages
marginally more key passes per game (0.4) than the Englishman (0.3).
He also
makes more key passes and averages more completed dribbles — the third highest in the Burnley squad for both stats.
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).
On top of that Jorginho's passing accuracy of 92.3 per cent is the second - highest of the regular starters, of whom only Lorenzo Insigne, Faouzi Ghoulam and Marek Hamsik
average more key passes.
Hector Bellerin
played more key passes than anyone else on the field in the first half, creating chances for Danny Welbeck and Alex Lacazette..
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 former Arsenal captain — who struck the woodwork as well as hitting the net — made
more key passes (5) and had more shots (also 5) than any other player on either side.
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!
Özil has created more chances (4.4 to 1.3) and made
more key passes (3.7 to 1.2) per game.
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.
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.
Only two defenders made
more key passes than Bournemouth's Simon Francis, and one of those was his team - mate Charlie Daniels.
These differences are perhaps demonstrated statistically by the fact that Fuchs, with 0.9 per game, averages
more key passes than the other two, while Simpson, with just 0.1 per game, averages the fewest of the trio.
Although Di Maria had a relatively quiet game by his standards, he still made
more key passes (2) than any other player.
, but only Rooney has made
more key passes and assists for United this season, and yesterday his contribution was obvious.