In this part of finding the best players from the Belgian Pro League, we will search for best offensive midfielders. This data analysis contains statistics from season 2019/20. We filtered players who spent most of their playing time as attacking midfielder and winger, played at least 600 minutes in the league. Because of the range of positions we need to analyze more statistics to have a clear view of which players are the most complete.
Belgian Pro League is a pool full of good offensive midfielders. Last summer we witnessed some transfers of wingers like Trossard, Djenepo, Danjuma and so on. All of them now play for English Premier League sides. The Belgian Pro League is a great development league which is an opportunity for clubs from better leagues to send their players on loan. Ligue 1 sides often benefit from sending their youngsters on loan to get more playing time. At the end of this data analysis, we will mark players who are statistically the best in the league when it comes to attacking.
Threat
The first thing and most important from our offensive midfielders is how dangerous they are when close to the opponents’ goal. We will try to demonstrate that with shots paired touches in the box. Colour of dots will represent xG per 90 for each player.
Graph above shows a few players that separated themselves from others.
Siebe Schrijvers from Club Brugge is having 5.5 touches in the box per 90 and 3.45 shots per 90. Versatile 23-year-old played a lot of positions this season, playing on the flank and as the second striker. Schrijvers is averaging 0.34 xG per 90 which is impressive and shows that he can be a threat when playing as centre-forward as well.
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