Statistical Analysis of The Best U21 Creative Players

A THREAD

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Players Analysed:
- CHO
- Havertz
- Reece James
- Neto
- Foden
- Saka
- Lamptey
- McNeil
- Ødegaard
- Fati
- A.Davies
- Sancho
- Reyna
- Diaby
- Cunha
- Tonali
- Zaniolo
- Kulusevski
- Mbappe

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Areas Viewed:

- ball progression
- basic creativity
- passes into the box
- chance creation
Starting off with Ball progression, This can tell us who are good at seeing passes in between the lines.

The two full backs excel, while Ødegaard is surprisingly very high for a 10. Tonali is also very high as a DM and Sancho seems to be the best winger at this aspect.
Next we’ve got xA90 and Key passes.

The trio of Mbappe, Sancho and CHO lead. Cunha and Kulusevski are two other intriguing less known players. Lamptey is surprisingly low but most players seem to be providing a high level of creativity.
Next onto passes into the penalty area. This is useful for seeing who can break down deep opponents.

CHO is far and away the best, Ødegaard and Sancho also very high at passing into the box but not crossing. Unsurprisingly most full backs are high in crosses into the box.
Finally onto chance creation, SCA-you’re involved in the final 2 actions to a shot on goal.

Sancho, CHO, Foden and ofc Mbappe are very high. Players like Reyna & Sancho have their chances converted more often while the other top 3’s chances aren’t converted by teamates.
on the chance creation graph your are far on the right you are creating a lot of chances just not having them converted (Mbappe, CHO, Havertz.)

If you are very high but not far horizontally (Reyna), your chances created are being converted by forwards at an above average rate.
Looking at it the best creators it would be CHO, Sancho, and Mbappe.

In terms of young full backs Reece James looks the best of the lot at creating chances.

Mbappe was the biggest surprise for me as I didn’t expect him to be getting the creative numbers he does
To end I’d keep an eye on Ødegaard at Real Madrid and see if he breaks into the starting 11, same with CHO and Foden.

If you’ve any other suggested threads reply and I’ll take a look. Thanks for reading 🙏

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