by maffff »
22 Jun 2017 09:59
I did a quick look into Christie's performance and stats last season compared to Gunter's - defensively similar (if not slightly stronger) and considerably stronger going forward.
Christie
- shoots 3x more regularly.
- passing stats are similar to Gunter's (75.7% pass accuracy compared to Gunter's 77.1%) despite not being in a passing team
- makes twice as many "key passes"
- wins more in the air (2.3 per game to Gunter's 0.9)
- tackles more (2 per game compared to G's 1.6),
- is dribbled past a similar amount
- intercepts slightly more
- makes slightly less clearances
- makes twice as many key passes per game
- dribbles 7x more often (so goes forward much more..)
- but is dispossessed 4x more than Gunter
- and his control is a third worse
- he makes about half as many long balls per game as Gunter (with similar %age accuracy) - could that be the style of play?
- his short passing is slightly more accurate