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If You Ask Most Fans Who Team Had The Best Defense Premier LeagueMost Would Likely Say Arsenal.
Likewise, Given The Amount of Money Spent In The Summer, Liverpool Would Likely Be Described The Best Attack By Most.
However, when it comes to the midfield, opinion could be split, Like Players With Although Martin Zubimendi, Declan RiceMartin Odegarard, Ezrechi Ezu, Mikel Merino and Christian Norard, It may may Mikel Arteta’s Side Again.
In Particular, Zubimendi and Rice Had Brilliant Stars to the Campaign, And What’s Even More The North Londoners Could Have An Even Stronger Midfield Had Tho Not Sold on the International Who Is A Hybrid and Englishman.
Considering The Club Spent The Former Chassing The Former Real Sociedad Star, Paying Around His Services and Beating Real Madrid to Expectation That There Would Have a Level His Arsenal Career in Positive Fashion Thi Season.
Fortunately, While There A Few Moments in WHITH’S Clearly Been Surprised by The Speed Of English Football, That is An Exactly What has Happened.
For example, the game-Changing Basque Star Started All Six Premier League Games So far, as well, as the Champions League Clash Away to Athletic Bilbao.
In Those Games, He has racked up Two Goals, Both the Game of the Game Against Nottingham Forest, courtesy of A Volley and A Perfectly Placed Header.
Moreover, There Have Earned Hims An Earned Himself An Earned Himsh’s Power Over The Top’s Newcastle United’s Defense, Only For Nick Pope to Pull A Brilliant Reaction Save and Stop Jurrien Timber.
He’s Not Just a Goal Threat, According, As, According to FBRef, Hey ranks in the Top 7% of Midfielders in the Premier League Than Blocking Passes and the Aerial Duels, Both 90.
In Short, Zubimendi Has Come in and Almost Straight Away has been Deep from Deep, Helping Break Up Opposition Attacks and Kickstart Them for The Gunners.
He’s Not The Summer Signing Making a Splash in The Premier League This Season, Though, AS A Former Arsenal Star Who has Heen compared to the Spaniard and Rice is a great campaign Himself.
There are A Few Former Arsenal Stars A positive Start to the Season This Year, From Alex IWobi at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with Marseille.
Howver, Although The Pair Even at The Moment, They Have Not Been Compared to Both Zubimendi and Rice, Unlike Granit Xhaka.
Yes, The Swiss International, Around the Around £ 21m in the Summer 2023 and then Joderland this Summer, Is The Former Arsenal Star Playing SO Well He’s Best Heen’s Best Players.
The Comparison Stems From FBRef, which has concluded That in the Premier League this Season, The Englishman has the third Most Midfielder to the Black Cats Ace, and The Spanard is Similar to the Eighth Most.
To Gain A Better Understanding of How this Conclusion Was Read, You Can Take A Look at The Underlying Numbers in the Former Gunners Star Ranks Closely to The Two International Stars.
Xhaka & rice | ||
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Statistics per 90 | Xhaka | Rice |
Non-Penalty Expected Goals | 0.02 | 0.03 |
Expected Assists | 0.10 | 0.10 |
Through Balls | 0.17 | 0.19 |
Switches | 0.50 | 0.58 |
Shot-Creating ACTIONS | 3.33 | 3.29 |
GOAL-Creating ACTIONS | 0.67 | 0.58 |
All Stats Via FBRef for The 25/26 PL Season |
When it comes to the former West Ham United Captain, These Metrics included Non-Penalty Expected Goals, Through Balls, Switches, Shot-Creating ACTIONS, and More.
It’s Clear From Those Numbers and The Eye Test, Like The Englishman, The Former Bayer Leverkusen Ace Still Has a Wand of a Left Foot, and As Sky Sports’ Dougie Critchley Puts ItIs “Still One of The Best Passers in Europe.”
Xhaka & Zubimendi | ||
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Statistics per 90 | Xhaka | Bright |
Non-penalty expected g + as | 0.16 | 0.14 |
Passes Into The Penalty Area | 0.67 | 0.51 |
Tackles won | 0.83 | 1.02 |
Interceptions | 1.17 | 1.19 |
Successful take-ons | 0.17 | 0.17 |
Carries | 36.2 | 37.1 |
All Stats Via FBRef for The 25/26 PL Season |
Then, when comes to the San Sebastián-Born Ace, The Similarities Tend to the More Defensive Side Things, With Their Tackles Won and Interceptions per 90 Being Area in which The Pair ranking ranks.
Ultimately, there is a strong case for Arsenal Having The Best Midfield in The League, Thanks Largely to Rice and Zubimendi.
However, Just Think How Much Better Their Squad Would Be Had Those Also Kept Hold of Xhaka.