There is also a significant improvement in his aerial ability, which is reflected in
the number of aerial duels he's won this season.
Not exact matches
In 2012/13 this guy had the following
numbers; 75/108 tackles 19/24 take ons, 35/67
aerial duels, 66.9 %
of his successful passes were forward.
In 2013/14, no Premier League defender
of any nationality made more interceptions (104) or won more
aerial duels (171) than Davies; those disparate disciplines show his equal comfort reading the game or reacting to physical presence, while he contributed the second - highest
number of tackles won for a centre - back (56, one behind Swansea's Chico Flores).
One surprising fact that came out, is he managed to win only 55.6 %
of his
aerial duels, yet managed the same
number of duels per game as Koscielny.
Alonso also won all seven
of his
aerial duels, and Kante made the same
number of interceptions, four clear
of the next player in that department.
On the basis
of their statistics for this season, Deeney comes out second best in all but
aerial duels won (39 per cent per game), just ahead
of Okaka, and the
number of times he loses possession on average (0.9) per game.