Serie A Guerin Sportivo 1980-1991 every game with player ratings

I've got Maradona on about 11 pre-assists for 1986/87, using the same standards as previously, but in terms of direct narrow assists it's just these two I think:

Torino (a) 1 (Giordano)
Juventus (h) 1 (Renica)

So for goals and widest possible assists he'd have a high tally relative to these 3 players over the 3 seasons, but for purely narrow assists plus non-penalty goals he's on 0.31 a game by my calculations. I did notice a penalty he scored was awarded for a foul on him (whether any source would give him 2 goal involvements for the same goal would be questionable though maybe - curiously the original Fantasy Football game used to award 2 points for a won penalty, except when the same player scored - he would get 3 points for the goal, like any other including penalties scored after other players were fouled, but not an extra 2 points).

Anyway, seemingly he overtakes Platini for pre-assists over the 3 seasons, having been I think maybe 3rd before this season for that even. But for narrow assists over the 3 seasons it is this I think:
Platini - 19 in 89 games (0.22 per game)
Maradona - 16 in 88 games (0.18 per game)
Rummenigge - 13 in 64 games (0.20 per game)

They are not far apart for goals + narrow assists +pre-assists (but excluding penalties won/scored) over all 3 seasons I think, with roughly 2 such contributions in every 3 games each (Maradona less than that by the most, but with the most penalties; Rummenigge probably closest to exactly 2/3 but with the lowest overall total of course).

 

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Even though you had second thoughts mate about your query (I can see it in my email inbox though haha!), I will add the link you had included for Maradona's Spanish Wiki page, which I didn't know about (although Estel had previously noticed some pages on French wiki with partial assist stats for mainly 90s players - sometimes under-stated it definitely seemed):
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Armando_Maradona#Estadísticas_como_jugador

As you had said, for 1984/85 they have a tally of 5 which would match the narrowest definition, without own goal assists or the deflection off the cross-bar to 'assist' Penzo (despite Maradona's 'genius' reputation it wasn't intended as an assist that way of course lol I'm sure). That source has him at 29 in 46 Italian cup games over the whole 7 seasons he was there, and assist-wise of course he notched up more per game in Serie A seasons to come starting with 87/88 (being dealt with currently on this thread re: ratings) but 84/85 was his best regarded overall ratings/performance wise, and the 8 (narrow-ish) assists were a decent collection, and indicative of his play/influence in general for Napoli that year I suppose.

Of course, the analysis I did was just to look at the 3 seasons those 3 played together, so Platini's 1983/84 (his best rated by some/most sources - certainly by GDS) is not included either. But for these 3 seasons they played together, the ratings put Maradona ahead of the other two, while end product is similar for all 3 basically (I am not saying that the ratings are 'wrong' or dubious by any means, or for that matter that Platini/Rummenigge didn't merit their end product stats, but I thought adding assists to the analysis was better than just seeing the goals tally anyway).

 

Hi vegan, new membet here. I want to say thank you for all the amazing stats info etc about 80s football you posted on the board. I was wondering If you plan to finish this topic with the missing seasons...im very curious about 88-89-90-91 seasons! Thanks again

 

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