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Battle of our wingers

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Posted

It's pre-season and I'm bored.

 

Price

Ghezzal - 14 million
Gray - 3.4 million
Albrighton - free
Barnes - academy

 

Minutes played

Gray - 1996
(Gray ENG - 255)
Albrighton - 1627
Barnes - 1010
Ghezzal - 739

 

Goals

Gray - 4
(Gray ENG - 1)
Albrighton - 2
Barnes - 1
Ghezzal - 1

 

Assists

Barnes - 4
Albrighton - 2
Gray - 1
(Gray ENG - 0)
Ghezzal - 0

 

Shots per game

Barnes - 2.5
Gray - 1.4
(Gray ENG - 3.7)
Ghezzal - 1
Albrighton - 0.7

 

Key passes per game

Barnes - 1.5
Albrighton - 1.1
Ghezzal - 0.8
Gray - 0.5
(Gray ENG - 1)

 

Tackles per game

Albrighton - 1.3
Ghezzal - 0.7
Gray - 0.7
(Gray ENG - 3.3)
Barnes - 0.4

 

Total chances created

Albrighton - 29
Barnes - 17
Gray - 17
(Gray ENG - no stats)
Ghezzal - 16

 

Total crosses

Albrighton - 125
Gray - 52
(Gray ENG - no stats)
Ghezzal - 45
Barnes - 23

 

Passing accuracy

Ghezzal - 79
Barnes - 79
Gray - 77
(Gray ENG - 89)
Albrighton - 65

 

I included Gray’s u21 games as food for thought: when he puts on the national colours he tackles more, shoots more, has a better pass accuracy, goals per minute ratio and provides double the key passes. And in Barnes's first half season he's become our best key passer and assister.

 

(Stats are from whoscored and sky sports.)

Posted

Barnes is the f ucking man 

 

 

If you’re comparing stats then you should do it in p90 metrics

Posted
33 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Barnes is the f ucking man 

 

 

If you’re comparing stats then you should do it in p90 metrics

I did with the whoscored metrics. The ones that aren't are from sky.

Posted
1 hour ago, urban fox said:

A wingers primary role is to get crosses in and create chances. Albrighton top of the list in both these areas

Yeah, fairly telling there. Albrighton's chances created stats surely come from the chance he can actually cross the ball. Barnes should improve massively with chances created next season but he rarely crosses, an indicator he's transitioned from number 10 to winger.

Posted

We definitely need a winger this summer. Barnes, gray and albrighton are all good in their own ways but an x Factor winger that can just push the defence back and give youri(hopefully) and madders the time they need will be brilliant. 

Posted
1 hour ago, urban fox said:

A wingers primary role is to get crosses in and create chances. Albrighton top of the list in both these areas

In the 90s yeah. Crossing is massively wasteful - how often do you see Sterling or Sane put a ball in the box? A modern wide player is there to create chances with cutbacks, through balls, crosses and score goals. I love Albrighton but him and Gray don’t contribute enough in a system with one up top

Posted
1 hour ago, Foxxed said:

 

I included Gray’s u21 games as food for thought: when he puts on the national colours he tackles more, shoots more, has a better pass accuracy, goals per minute ratio and provides double the key passes.

What games are those of Gray's? The current under 21s tournament?

Posted
5 minutes ago, Stadt said:

In the 90s yeah. Crossing is massively wasteful - how often do you see Sterling or Sane put a ball in the box? A modern wide player is there to create chances with cutbacks, through balls, crosses and score goals. I love Albrighton but him and Gray don’t contribute enough in a system with one up top

Only Ghezzal was on the list for that stat. Everyone else on that list is at 0. 

Posted
6 minutes ago, Stadt said:

In the 90s yeah. Crossing is massively wasteful - 

For proof of this, have a look at how Ricardo crosses these days. There's some incredible stat about how most succeeding crosses are actually cut backs. 

Posted
1 hour ago, urban fox said:

A wingers primary role is to get crosses in and create chances. Albrighton top of the list in both these areas

Prior to Rodgers arriving, crossing in to the box with only one player usually in there was a frustrating and fruitless task. It usually came about from slow and laborious football allowing the opposition to get numbers back in defence and in position and the crosses were nullified. It was interesting to see the number of goals we scored under Rodgers that were a direct result of a cross, it seemed to happen much more frequently than under Puel.

Posted
25 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

For proof of this, have a look at how Ricardo crosses these days. There's some incredible stat about how most succeeding crosses are actually cut backs. 

A cross is not just a high ball pumped hopefully into the box. Any ball put into the danger area from a wide position would be counted as a cross surely whatever height it is delivered at. As you point out Ricardo has on at least two occasions provided tap in finish for Vardy by fizzing a fast ball low into the six yard box. This is still a cross and often more effective than a high ball floated in. If the ball is delivered with pace into this area, behind the defence but beyond the keeper, then it is just begging for an oncoming attacker to get a touch

Posted

Harvey Barnes has very promising stats given he's so young and only broke into the team in the second half of the season. Every time he plays it feels like he is a dangerous forward thinking player and the stats go some way to back that up.

 

He should have scored several more goals as well, which would have made his stats look better. He is the one I am the most confident in of our this set of players.

 

The sad thing though is that if you combine ALL of the goals and assists from these players, it's less than Mahrez's stats from his last season with us. If we want top 7 or higher, these players need to kick on and contribute more to the team.

Posted

Stats - they show whatever you've already decided they'll show.

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