Maekyung.com MK Sports Reporter Park Chan-hyung
Analysis found that Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min is more than twice as good as Liverpool forward Sadio Mane (Senegal) in terms of scoring contribution. The two are of the same age born in 1992, and have the left wing as the main position, and they have the same thing as the center/right side.
Gary Neville (45, England), UK Sky Sports soccer commentator, said on social media on the 22nd (Korean time) that’the reason Son Heung-min was chosen as the 2020 Premier League (EPL) Team of the Year’ was statistical data comparing the two. Revealed.
According to the Sky Sports statistics obtained by Neville, Son Heung-min has 182.4% of the EPL average for Son Heung-min, but 86.0% for Manet.
It is said that Son Heung-min’s ability to engage in scoring is about 2.12 times that of Mane and 47.2% of Son Heung-min.
It was revealed that Tottenham’s Son Heung-min (left) showed about 2.12 times better attack point ability than Liverpool’s Sadio Manet (right) at the 2020 EPL. Photo=AFPBBNews=News1 Son Heung-min is 17 points and 7 assists in 28 EPL games in the second half of the 2019-20 season and the first half of the 2020-21 season, while Mane is 13 points and 3 assists in 30 games.
The expected goals scored in 2020 were Heung-Min Son 9.8 and Manet 13.8, and Heung-Min Son 3.36 and Manet 4.8. Assuming that a typical EPL player had the same opportunity as Son Heung-min and Mane, this means that they scored 9.8 goals and 3.36 assists and 13.8 goals and 4.8 assists, respectively.
Son Heung-min scored 1.73 times and assists 2.08 times more than this year’s average EPL player. Manet, on the other hand, was 94.2% of the decision power of a regular Premier League player, and only 62.5% of the passes leading to his teammate’s goals. [email protected]
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