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Another thread to explore the stats of two prospective Liverpool assets for gw38+, especially considering lots of managers free hitting - Salah vs Mane. All the stats are taken from the @FFScout member area, while the thread is inspired by the work of @BigManBakar
... To choose one between two of the most expensive FPL asset, Salah and Mane, is always a difficult task to do. While choosing both might be a viable option during the season, for specifically gameweek 38+ it will be harder than usual as there are way too many other options ...
... in the midfield having great fixtures, in great form, or specific motivation to do better than normal. Surely, people would want the Manchester City’s midfield (Sterling, deBruyne, Mahrez, David Silva, Foden), the Manchester United’s (Bruno Fernandes and Martial), and ...
... other intriguing assets (Pulisic, Willian, Antonio, Son, etc) in their squad. Not only the Liverpool duo might take the money out of the team, but they will also take one too many midfield spots that could be filled with those abovementioned promising assets. Thus, ...
... we try to compare the statistics of Salah vs Mane in the last six matches they feature in prior to tonight’s game vs Chelsea. Keep in mind that the stats as well as our interpretation of the number could change after gameweek 37+ has finished. During the period, I would ...
... say that I personally will choose Salah over Mane. Salah looks hungrier than his counterpart, and although has not yet hit the FPL performance he used to have, his underlying stats suggest that he is massively unlucky. Both Salah and Mane have 3 goals in the last six ...
... matches, with Salah adding 3 assists to the tally (Mane has 0). The expected stats do agree with Salah’s superiority as the xG suggests Salah should have 4.02 goals, more than Mane’s 2.13. The xA is somewhat similar for both players, with 1.37 for Salah and 1.35 for Mane. ...
... As usual, Salah has much more shots quantity over Mane; he has more touches in the penalty box (57 vs 45), significantly more shots (28 vs 16), and almost double the number of shots in the box (23 vs 12). The usual knowledge that ‘Mane has better quality shots than Salah’ ...
... has also been proven unsuitable lately, as Salah has more shots on target (15 vs 6) and more big chances (8 vs 6) than Mane. Should be noteworthy to observe that Salah’s number of shot on target alone is higher than Mane’s total attempts. The upside stats of Mane is that ...
... he has higher chances created (16 vs 12) and big chances created (3 vs 1) than Salah, which on one side can be interpreted as Salah’s advantages as well because some of those chances created might be converted into the Egyptian king’s goal. Another only benefit of having ...
... Mane is that his lower ownership. In the top 10K, Salah’s EO is 50.74%, while Mane is only 9.58%. However, if you’re choosing Mane over Salah, with the aim that his ownership is lower and his return might boost your rank more, you are betting that in order to do that, ...
... Mane does not only have to do well, but he has to do well better than Salah, which I don’t fancy looking at the stats presented above.
