
Originally Posted by
CCTV
Darwins goal or Assist per minute stats are essentially level with Salah, and ahead of Solanke whose having a great season, and Saka at arsenal their top goal contributor in the PL.
I'm glad you brought up Minamino, pivotal in both our cup success that year. That year we lost the big2, and in the second half our PL campaign Taki never got a start whilst Salah had his own finishing yips at that time.
Lucky for Salah he had great seasons at lfc under his belt. Darwin new to lfc had his best seasons at Benfica.
There he was more clinical routinely outperforming Xg. Scoring loads and playing loads. He did take time to settle their too, into a higher quality league of football.
For me, Pep outperformed Klopp last year in adapting to adding a striker like Halaand, better than Klopp had with Núñez.
Open question to the forum, if Darwins failed to seduce you, what exactly would be acceptable for him to be a success.
Like, if Darwins goal-or-assist per minute stats are tops this year, what do you want him to do ?
Start and play more, his total Goals & Assist number would be Salah level. 19 goal contributions in the league, set for 38 on a full season.
Start to outperform Salah & Halaand for goals&assists per minute.
For a reasonably young man with a decent transfer fee and reasonable wage less that Trents, who had a somewhat tumultuous start if you're a bit of a fanny...
I think he's handling the pressure rather well.
Here's Halaands stats for the current season.
Halaand started 15 of their 19 PL games,
Playing 1,294 minutes
19 Goal contributions
14 goals from 14.9 Xg
5 assists from 1.2 Xa
Goal or Assist per 68.1 minutes
Expected Goal contributions 16.1
Underperformed on Xg -0.9 to Darwins -2.1
Outperformed Xa like Darwin. But net Darwin outperformed him here +5.4 to +3.8
On expected goal contributions
Halaand +2.9 to Salah&Darwins +3.3
Halaands Xg is twice Núñez's which shows he's the end point of more attacks, and getting more chances to score than Darwin. 14.9 v 7.1
A more complex discussion as to why, but that's the base reality.
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