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Quality of chances for Europe’s Top 5 leagues

Amongst Premier League central midfielders this season, Elliot Anderson has been top 10 for ⊛ Passes [1st] ⊛ Duels won [1st] ⊛ Dribbles [2nd] ⊛ Long balls [6th] ⊛ Progressive Carries [6th] ⊛ Progressive Passes [7th] ⊛ XA [8th] Worth £115m ?

Premier League clubs and where they win their duels

Inigo Vicente has the 3rd most xA in La liga [4.10] and he had done that with just 36 chances. His 0.13 xA per chance created is the most quality for players with 30+ chances created in La Liga.

⦿ United’s longest win record against the Big Six since 2010 ⦿ United’s best 17 game spell since Alex Ferguson ⦿ Equalled United’s longest Premier League run without a win [8 with Amorim] Micheal Carrick’s tenure

Raphinha leads the top five leagues for goals with 15 Then Kylian Mbappé [13] and Lamine Yamal [10].

Mamadou Sangare has been the most destructive force of nature in the Premier League in 2026/27 so far. No player has a higher interception p90 [2.34] & Tackles p90 [4.09] than the Malian.

Only Real Betis Alvaro Valles [5.18] has prevented more goals than Leeds United’s James Trafford [5.12] in Europe’s Top 5 Leagues. British record fee for a goalkeeper

Luis Suarez 13/14 one of the greatest individual Premier League seasons, he had 6 goal involvement vs the Traditional top 6 and failed to record any involvement against Chelsea. He also scored 22 of his goals vs the bottom half but he did all of this in just 33 appearances.

Arsenal have not made a January first team signing in the last three winter windows, alongside Liverpool [4 windows] are the only traditional top 6 sides to have managed that. In the last Five winter windows under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal have failed to sign a player in Four.

Since the start of 2023/24, only one active Premier League player has had more goal involvements than Cole Palmer [73]. Consistent

How Liverpool players create shots. Dominik Szobozlai creates more shots from set pieces [2.7] than open play [2.5].

Kylian Mbappe's openplay xG [9.2] is the most by a single player in Europe's Top 5 Leagues. Donyell Malen's [9.1/9.3] open play to xG ratio is the highest of players with 5.7 xG and more in the Top 5 Leagues.

Micheal Carrick's Manchester United side picked up 58% of the available points [81] during his tenure at Old Trafford. Only Mikel Arteta [78%] of active Premier League managers picked up more within that period.

Big issue with the quality of chances created, for PL creators standards, he does create alot, but they're very low quality chances. His 0.05 xA per chance is the lowest of Premier League players with 20+ chances created

Two and a half years from the Chelsea [5-0] drubbing by Arsenal, where are the players from the starting 11 now ? With hindsight, was that a bad side ?

No Premier League player has more open play chances created per 90 than Noni Madueke [3.15] in the 2026/27 season

How Premier League wingers create shots. ⦿ Jeremy Doku's [5.7 p90] is the most from open play passes ⦿ Belloumi's [1.2] is the most from takeons ⦿ Marcus Tavernier's [1.3] is the most from setpieces