As we go into the ultimate worldwide break of the marketing campaign, Metropolis have eight Premier League video games remaining.
Having already lifted the Carabao Cup and with an FA Cup quarter-final towards Liverpool to return, there’s loads of pleasure across the subsequent couple of months.
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That FA Cup tie means we aren’t in league motion once more till a visit to Chelsea on 12 April, when the ultimate run-in to the marketing campaign really begins.
That additionally consists of the run-in to the Premier League season, the place Metropolis sit second with 61 factors from 30 video games.
That’s 9 again from leaders Arsenal, who’ve performed another than us.
Right here we’ll take a look on the numbers behind our league season up till this level…
Wins
With 18 victories to this point, solely Arsenal have picked up three factors extra usually than us.
Meaning we’ve been victorious in 60% of our matches to this point, which is barely down on Pep Guardiola’s extraordinary Premier League common of 71%.
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Once more, it’s solely Arsenal who’ve tasted defeat lower than us – with Metropolis shedding 5 instances and Arsenal three.
Targets scored
As at all times, Metropolis proceed to attain at a prolific price.
We’ve netted 60 targets to this point, averaging precisely two a sport.
That’s come from an xG of 55.26, which suggests we’re barely outperforming the common in entrance of purpose for the quantity and high quality of possibilities we create.
As for whole photographs, we’re down in joint-third with Arsenal on 321 – with Manchester United (360) and Liverpool (325) the 2 above us.
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Erling Haaland once more leads the best way for targets within the division and might be set to win his third Golden Boot in simply 4 seasons.
He’s on 22 strikes for the time being, with Brentford’s Igor Thiago his nearest challenger on 19.
Antoine Semenyo is subsequent on 15, though the Ghana worldwide scored 10 of these for Bournemouth earlier than his January transfer.
Phil Foden is subsequent by way of targets, claiming seven to this point, whereas Tijjani Reijnders has chipped in with 5.
As you’d count on, Haaland is way and away probably the most common in relation to taking pictures, taking 84 photographs whereas Semenyo is subsequent on 59 earlier than Brentford’s Thiago on 58.
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As for assists, Rayan Cherki is the second finest within the division with eight, whereas Erling Haaland is only one again from him.
Matheus Nunes, Jeremy Doku and Bernardo Silva are all on 4 every.
Clear sheets
We’ve stored 12 clear sheets in whole to this point, with 11 of these for Gianluigi Donnarumma and one by James Trafford.
Donnarumma is second solely to Arsenal’s David Raya, on 15, within the race for the Golden Glove.
That tracks with what number of targets both sides has let in, with Arsenal on 22 and Metropolis on 28 – far forward of the following finest defences, Everton and Crystal Palace on 35.
Possession
Metropolis stay the Premier League’s main passers, having accomplished 17,607 to this point.
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That’s 617 greater than the following most possession-based aspect in Chelsea, whereas we common 587 passes in each single sport.
And as you’d count on, greater than 85% of these passes have been outlined by Opta as ‘quick’.
In the meantime, solely Arsenal have performed fewer profitable ‘lengthy’ passes than our whole of 587.
Matheus Nunes has accomplished probably the most passes in a Metropolis shirt, though his tally of 1,711 is just the 14th most throughout the division.
In latest seasons, we’ve grown accustomed to Rodri dominating this statistic however he’s nonetheless averaging a formidable 97 per sport, which might have put him comfortably high had he performed the total season.
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Rayan Cherki is attempting probably the most harmful passes, having hit 21 via balls to this point – the second highest whole within the division.
Appearances
Bernardo Silva is the one man to have featured in all of our Premier League video games to this point.
The membership captain has performed 2,256 minutes to this point.
Nonetheless, Gianluigi Donnarumma (2,430), Erling Haaland (2,419) and Matheus Nunes (2,267) have all been on the pitch for extra minutes than the Portuguese midfielder.
Nico O’Reilly (2,135) and Ruben Dias (2,050) are the one different gamers with greater than 2,000 minutes on the pitch within the Premier League for Metropolis to this point this season.