Manchester clubs dominate most improved Premier League XI
by Martin Laurence
at Thursday, Mar 26 2020 15:06
If you ever played competitive amateur football at any level, you would know that any award for the 'most improved player' isn't necessarily seen or taken as a compliment! A somewhat glorified participation acknowledgement in many cases, that's certainly not true of the following lineup.With an inde...
Liverpool star Alexander-Arnold the shock exclusion from U21 Team of the Season
by Josh Wright
at Wednesday, Mar 25 2020 13:30
Here we run through the best WhoScored rated U21 XI from Europe's top five leagues for the 2019/20 campaign. Players aged 21 and under at the start of their respective league campaigns are eligible for selection, while goalkeepers must have been 23 and under. Furthermore, players must have featured ...
Salah pips Messi to spot in latest stat-themed European XI
by Martin Laurence
at Wednesday, Mar 25 2020 11:12
In the latest in our series of stat-themed XIs we reveal a lineup of the players to have attempted the most shots by playing position across Europe's top five leagues this season.In the interest of fairness - having done the same for our key pass XI - we're excluding set pieces, so in this instance ...
Ronaldo misses out on #7 in best 1-11 shirt number lineup
by Martin Laurence
at Monday, Mar 23 2020 17:26
Teamsheet announcements over tannoys at football matches aren't what they used to be. Gone are the days when players are reeled off from 1 to 11 in terms of their squad numbers. In fact, your lucky to get past the third player in a starting lineup before reaching some ridiculously obscure numbers, a...
Serie A title challenging titans dominate Italy's best XI
by Ben McAleer
at Sunday, Mar 22 2020 17:46
With all leagues currently suspended to help combat the coronavirus outbreak, the likelihood of any football being played anytime soon is slim. As such, we've decided to see how the WhoScored.com Serie A team of the season would look should the campaign end now, with title challenging Juventus and L...
Manchester United dominate Europa League Team of the Season so far
by Josh Wright
at Friday, Mar 20 2020 11:42
Here we run through the best WhoScored rated XI from the 2019/20 Europa League campaign up until this point, considering only those who have made six appearances in the competition. Goalkeeper: Giedrius Arlauskis (CFR Cluj) - 7.05 rating CFR Cluj were eventually eliminated by Europa League specialis...
Sancho and Ronaldo fall well short of ultimate dribble XI
by Martin Laurence
at Monday, Mar 16 2020 14:54
Following our Stats XI series opener taking key passes into account, today's sequel focuses on successful dribbles, building a lineup of the players to have completed the most in Europe's top five leagues this season.There are, once again, some big name omissions in the likes of Jadon Sancho and Cri...
Alexander-Arnold and Messi miss out on Europe's most creative XI!
by Martin Laurence
at Friday, Mar 13 2020 17:48
With Europe's top five leagues forced out of action by the Coronavirus outbreak, we're reflecting on the season so far with a new series of statistic-based XIs. The first in the series takes a look at key passes - as voted by our Twitter followers - while we took the decision to exclude set pieces f...