Frequency of Chances Created via Open Play
The purpose of showing these stats are to give you a different flavour for the chances created statistics. There are a lot of stats distributed about which players have created the most etc. However what matters most is who is creating the chances the most often? No?
The stats below show you which players are the most creative from open-play. Steven Pienaar tops the list creating an open-play chance every 25.59 minutes – he has three goal assists to his name this season too and has created a total of 40 chances (in the Top 5 for most chances created in the league too.)
Adel Taarabt, Rickie Lambert, Luis Suarez and David Silva make up the Top 5 and you’d expect to see two of them in the top 5 but the graphic below shows how important Rickie Lambert and Adel Taarabt are for their teams – QPR fans must be wishing for better conversion rates from their strikers/midfielders. There’s not much between the Top 3 here at all – in fact less than 15 seconds separate the three of them.
Frequency of Chances Created via Set-Play
Nicky Shorey leads the way by some margin for frequent chances created via Open-Play. He is creating a chance via set-play every 40 minutes and if you watched the recent Reading Vs Manchester United game you would have witnessed his set-plays in action. He created two goals in that game via corners – he has four assists so far this season and this will only improve. Nicky Shorey is vital to Reading’s campaign. No surprise that the League’s leading creator Leighton Baines appears in this list creating a set-play chance, just under, every 50 minutes. Barry Bannan, Mark Noble and Esteban Granero also appear in this list.
Over the two creation areas it’s surprising that QPR have a player in each of the Top 5 lists – they really need to start putting some of these chances away if they wish to stay in the Premier League.
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