Question time - of the all-time top 50 assisters in the premier league, who has the highest assists to starts percentage? Top 5? Same question but for goals+assists?
Including just league games, but including sub appearances (not sure where to find starts vs subs/cbf), The top 5 according to my data is Player (Assists / Matches) Ratio Nani (49/133) = 0.369 Fabregas (71/212) = 0.335 Henry (80/254) = 0.315 Rooney (71/270) = 0.263 Drogba (55/226) = 0.243 So much for Nani being ineffective eh? Ronaldo would have been next in the list with 46/196 = 0.235, though I think if he'd been here longer that ratio would have looked much better since it's weighed down by his early developmental years. I'll have a look into goals+ assists in a second.
You have the 1st, 3rd and 4th in all-time premier league assist lists there Joe. Rooney and Drogba are not in the top 5. For the remaining two, you need to look a bit closer to home.
Funny enough, they have the personnel I personally would've sent out against City(minus Ivanovic and Luiz) but they're not executing at all. They seem only capable of either last ditch defending or direct counter attacking. No possession play at all.
Their crossing into the box has been really ineffectual, Ba isn't dominating in the air and there's really no-one else in their attack who will. It's making it easy for City
I would put Ramirez inside and make it three man midfield put hazard rw and mata lw, mikel has been average
For the Goals and assists (again I'm going on all matches played, not starts) Player (G+A/M) = Per Match Aguero (32+12/57) = 0.772 Shearer ( 283+27/559) = 0.555 Solskjear (91+32/235) = 0.5234 Now this is one that I'm sure would change for starts Robbie Keane (137+31/321) = 0.5233 Pires (62+38/198) = 0.505
Feck it anyway, for all the times for Lampard to miss a penalty... Wait for the media wankfest over Hart saving that if City don't lose, completely forgetting the fact that the penalty was 100% his fault.
The chelsea Captains armband must be made of led and unsettle the balance of any player taking a penalty
Done it now for only Prem Matches started. Assists Nani 0.735 Beckham 0.641 Fabregas 0.626 Henry 0.613 Bergkamp 0.581 With Giggs just missing out on 0.546 Goals+assists Henry 1.362 RvP 1.116 Drogba 1.045 Solskjaer 1.013 RvN 1.007