Some Opta Stats

[eaststand]

Category Player/Team Total
Top Shooter Luis Suárez (Liverpool) 63
Top Passer Yaya Touré (Man City) 1313
Top Tackler Alejandro Faurlin (QPR) 74
Most Dribbles & Runs Victor Moses (Wigan) 129
Most Crosses Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland) 153
Most Offsides Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham) 30
Most Fouls Grant Holt (Norwich) 42
Team with most fouls Wigan 225
Team with most shots Man City 242

Goalkeepers Team Saves Saves/shots
Hennessey Wolves 81 72%
Friedel Tottenham 69 78%
Vorm Swansea 66 76%
Al-Habsi Wigan 64 68%
Ruddy Norwich 61 69%

Tacklers Team Tackles Success rate
Faurlin QPR 74 74%
Lucas Leiva Liverpool 68 76%
Cabaye Newcastle 68 65%
Diamé Wigan 67 73%
Parker Tottenham 62 69%

Passers Team Passes Accuracy
Yaya Touré Man City 1313 91%
Arteta Everton/Arsenal 1173 90%
Williams Swansea 1152 84%
Ramsey Arsenal 1093 87%
Murphy Fulham 1008 82%


Scorers Team Goals Goal/shots
van Persie Arsenal 16 26%
Ba Newcastle 13 31%
Agüero Man City 13 25%
Rooney Man Utd 13 23%
Yakubu Blackburn 10 37%

Creators Team Assists Key Passes
Silva Manchester City 8 38
Nani Manchester United 7 39
Mata Chelsea 7 37
Nasri Manchester City 7 26
Bale Tottenham Hotspur 5 41

Team Goals Shots On Target Shot Accuracy Succ Passes
Arsenal 33 207 105 51% 7750
Aston Villa 19 142 52 37% 4089
Blackburn Rovers 24 150 67 45% 3965
Bolton Wanderers 22 146 81 55% 4745
Chelsea 35 232 105 45% 7390
Everton 17 174 71 41% 4826
Fulham 18 183 90 49% 5892
Liverpool 20 234 97 41% 6473
Manchester City 53 242 121 50% 8119
Manchester United 42 208 112 54% 6880
Newcastle United 23 171 71 42% 4762
Norwich City 27 171 77 45% 4401
Queens Park Rangers 17 173 60 35% 4681
Stoke City 18 131 48 37% 3335
Sunderland 21 180 78 43% 4903
Swansea City 16 140 55 39% 7702
Tottenham Hotspur 32 218 113 52% 6480
West Bromwich Albion 19 163 70 43% 5205
Wigan Athletic 15 173 72 42% 5548
Wolverhampton Wanderers 19 186 82 44% 5310

BAD BOYS Team Fouls Yellows Reds Points
Holt Norwich 42 3 0 52
N'Zonzi Blackburn 33 6 0 51
Adam Liverpool 34 3 1 50

[trautmansdropkick]

City, well ahead of even Arsenal for the number of passes. I have always thought that the rags game has just been based on pace and power and just ;look at their record. Even Swansea have considerably more passes than they have.

SSN are rumoured to be giving Suarez their player of the year award - bolloxxx - it's got to be Silva for anyone who understands football. Oh yeah.... we are talking Murdoch's Morons here..

[bluekiwi]

Silva had 1% of the vote last time I checkled there..... I know.....that's how serious u should take it. There is only one Liverpool candidate, and despite his racist tendencies he's winning...

[trautmansdropkick]

Silva gets the vote of educated football men. Not a bunch of scouse dirt bags who are soooooo desperate for their bunch of has-beens to win anything. The scouse tossers actally cheer like shit when they win a coin toss at the start of the game.

[eaststand]

I just think it shows how important having someone who's doing what yaya is doing for us now, keeping the ball moving and by doing so demanding others make those runs he needs to receive the ball and lay i back to him or turn play further forward. Schweinstiger made nearly 2000 passes the last world cup, Xavi exceeded 2000 and iniesta was around the 1700 mark. They where something like 1,000 passes ahead of our highest passer (gareth barry). It shows just how much you need a player like that in your team. Without having access to actual opta stats it wouldn't surprise me if United have lost something similar with Scholes retiring and not replacing him