Many of the European league champions are renowned for buying world-class players to build their star-studded squads. Bayern Munich are no exception to this, buying a plethora of young and experienced players to win the Bundesliga and Champions League. Philippe Coutinho, Lucas Hernandez, and Benjamin Pavard are three examples of high profile signings made by the Bavarians in recent transfer windows. However, they have made shrewd signings with the biggest success being Alphonso Davies. The Canadian left-winger cum left-back has lit up the world and is considered one of the best talents in world football. However, Bayern’s academy has a number of talented players that could make the step up to the first team and make a real impact.
In this data analysis, we will analyse Bayern Munich’s academy through data and statistics to find the most talented youngsters that could make the next step up to the first team.
Parameters
Before we delve into the analysis, we will need to establish the parameters used to be able to arrive at the results. We’ve decided to take a look at all the Bayern Munich II players using the data available on Wyscout for the 2019/20 season.
Since the academy mainly consists of very young players, it is imperative we set a parameter to measure players who have had some meaningful game time to establish a base. So it’s important to note that we’ll only highlight players who have played 500 minutes or more this season and only the ones whose data set allows us to take a more in-depth look.
The analysis will cater towards looking at the most attack-minded players in the squad, analysing their goal contribution, creativity, and ball progression to give us a clear picture of some of the most influential players the Bayern academy squad has on offer.
Goal contribution
The first graph we’ll be looking at is the players’ goal contribution goals and assists per 90 and expected goal contribution.
We can immediately see there are quite a few names that stand out in this metric. Kwasi Okyere Wriedt is the highest performer with a goal contribution of 0.78 and xGoal contribution of 0.69. Wriedt is by far the best performer for Bayern Munich II in this category and can be considered a major goal threat. Oliver Batista Meier averages a goal contribution of 0.48 and xGoal contribution of 0.53. Jannik Rochelt averages 0.39 goal contribution and an xGoal contribution of 0.32, albeit he has played 916 minutes. Leon Dajaku is another name that sits in the top performer’s quadrant with a goal contribution of 0.32 and xGoal contribution of 0.25 but he too has less than 1,000 minutes. Sarpreet Singh has performed quite well by outdoing his xGoal contribution of 0.30 by averaging 0.67 goal contribution. Lastly, Marcel Zylla has a goal contribution of 0.32 with an xGoal contribution of 0.25.
