In his 28 league games this season, Xhaka averaged 7.4 accurate long
passes per game, winning 2.4 tackles from his position at the base of midfield.
Borja Valero have mastered 60.7 average
passes per game and has a success rate of 91.4 %, only Skriniar has a better pass success percentage with 91.7 %.
With the Clarets, Gray made an average of 11.6
passes per game, though he has never been the kind of striker to come short and receive the ball.
If you take into account that Wigan have averaged 406.8
passes per game over the same period then we can deduce that it takes them almost 2.5 games to score from a clear - cut chance.
He is averaging just 1.3 key
passes per game for West Ham this season, with Michail Antonio, Mark Noble and Aaron Cresswell all averaging more than the Mexican so far this term.
Candreva average 2.5 key
passes per game and 2.1 crosses per game.
Silva's side average 423.4
passes per game.
The team depends heavily on Robert Snodgrass to be its creative hub; he leads Aston Villa with 13 assists and 2.2 key
passes per game to turn a mediocre attack into a good one.
To put that into context, Joe Hart averages almost twice as many
passes per game (32) as Hernández.
He's not reaching anywhere near his numbers of last season, but his 21.18 forward
passes per game, ability to beat players off the dribble and consistent xA90 (0.19) keeps him high in the list.
His passing accuracy was at 91.5 %, whilst completing more
passes per game than anybody else in the league.
Bale has averaged just 1.7 key
passes per game.
In addition to this, Mayer has been one key
passes per game, eleven in total in the league.
In the previous season, he averaged six key
passes per game according to InStat, which was more than any other player in the league.
Skriniar have average 61.4
passes per game and 91.7 % pass success percentage.
Right winger Candreva average 2.5 key
passes per game and 2.1 crosses per game.
Payet has a far better ratio of successful
passes per game than Bale (36 to 23).
In 29 games for the Cherries, Wilshere dictated the midfield with 1,068 passes, almost 40
passes per game.
Etienne Capoue has averaged 98
passes per game so far for Spurs in their opening two Premier League games.
Alexis wasn't making himself available for the passes from Ozil and was dropping deep to collect and create for others but Ozil had other options over those two games, and it wasn't like he didn't get any service, he led Arsenal both time in passes in the final third, averaging 20 final third
passes per game.
59.1 — Average
passes per game, which is the most of any Southampton player in the Premier League this season.
He also fares better than the pair on key
passes per game (2.3) and dribbles (1.7).
Milik has averaged around 11
passes per game with a near 80 percent pass success rate in the Serie A this season, according to WhoScored.com.
When it comes to key
passes per game in the Premier League, Mkhitaryan's average of 1.4 is only bested by Mesut Özil within the Arsenal squad.
Look at his technical ability, look at his delivery; he makes 2.7 key
passes per game.
The Baggies also attempt the fewest
passes per game (340.7 per cent), although Burnley have the worst completion rate (70 per cent).
He's had 14 goals and 8 assists in 22 appearances and has made 2.6 key
passes per game and also had 2.7 hours per game.
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 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.
Last season he averaged 1.5 key
passes per game, while he made six assists thanks to his great touch on the ball and vision on the field.
This season, under Ranieri, he leads the team in
passes per game, completing 91 per cent of his 41.8 attempts.
With 47.3
passes per game, he is key to Les Verts when on the ball and he has the vision to pick out long, ranging passes.
Byram's season at Leeds compared to Carl Jenkinson's season with West Ham for goals, chances and successful
passes per game.
In fact, there is arguably no better distributor of the ball in European football right now than Jorginho, who leaves Sergio Busquetts, Marco Verratti, Toni Kroos and co trailing in his wake for average
passes per game.
In the third column we have average
passes per game with Tom Cleverley standing atop this category followed by Jordan Henderson — the Liverpool man clearly ahead at this early stage of our comparison.
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.
He makes 1.5 key
passes per game; excellent for a winger when you compare to the likes of Bayern's Kingsley Coman (1.1), Arsenal's Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain (1.1) and Dortmund's Christian Pulisic (0.9).
Ilkay Gundogan had the highest average of
passes per game as well as a high passing accuracy, so he would be comfortable in possession for Moyes» men.
Jordan Henderson again leads the way with 1.9 key
passes per game, followed (again) by Jack Wilshere on 1.5.
Key
passes per game is also another useful metric to assess how players are doing in the final third.
This is shockingly low; Jonas Olsson and Gareth McAuley of West Brom average the lowest amount of
passes per game in the league and even they muster 28.94 per 90 at 63 %.
In Lacazette's defence, he does make 1.2 key
passes per game versus the 0.7 of Morata.
Delph made more successful
passes per game than Fernandinho (49.4 to 45.8) in the Premier League, enough that would have in - fact had him rank third in the entire City squad last season, behind only Yaya Toure and David Silva.
This season, Herrera is averaging 1.2 key
passes per game and creates a chance every 63.5 minutes.
With 1.2 key
passes per game to Fernandinho's 0.8 and 1.3 chances created per game to 0.9 from the Manchester City midfielder, Delph shone further.
Kante 0.6 key
passes per game, Seri 2.2.
He averaged 7.4
passes per game last season, if he doesn't score he's literally a passenger.
He could have attempted to get into games a bit more, on average 10
passes per game is kinda low when you look at Alexis who has over 40
passes per game.
Even the moaned at Theo has averaged twice the amount of
passes per game and twice as many shots while having a 60 % completion rate for dribbles.
He averaged 2.2 key
passes per game in the league, the fourth highest among all players, using his magical left foot to create chances for teammates from all over the pitch.