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I think that Son's iffy form has multiple layers to it, but him and Perisic not clicking is one factor in it. We saw a similar issue with Rose, who also in his prime pushed very high up the field and ate up some of the space that Son utilises to his advantage.
Maybe the solution for now is to keep bringing him on off the bench against tired legs. And giving Kane and Richie the starting minutes. And once Son's mojo is back in alignment he can be re inserted into the starting 11.
Why do you think that is? He was good coming off the bench scoring hattrick when Perisic wasn't playing.
I appreciate your post. I just think its really difficult to draw that kind of a conclusion from the available data, especially when other factors could have had much more of an impact on performance. An example of this would be the hattrick against Leicester- was it more to do with a lack of Perisic, or that Leicester were chasing the game and naturally more exposed to Son's counter attacking strengths? Do we factor in strength of defensive opposition too?
So using that argument, shouldn't we be giving Son a little slack for losing possession a little more here and there given he's usually the player that leads our team in dribbles, shot creating actions and was the league's leader in non pen goal contributions over the last 2 seasons?
bk_spur
, here are some historical stats/metrics that you wanted to see. What's very apparent is that Son has had meaningfully more touches per game, less possession lost per game, more successful dribbles per game, and more key passes per game. Not to mention Son in almost every season has significantly more goals, assists, crosses, shot creating actions, big chances created, etc. etc. Fair enough- and genuine respect to you for assembling the relevant stats here. Perhaps we ought to explore other reasons for this statistical occurrence?
To be honest, it's not really close. The numbers clearly suggest that Son's is the more direct, risk taking player and he loses possession meaningfully less than Richie.
And this isn't a knock on Richie at all. Sometimes, I just think that Son is really underappreciated by a lot of fans. The guy is of supreme quality on so many levels and it's the reason why he's been our POTY in 3 of the last 4 seasons. He's not just a player that scores goals.
Richarlison's Per Game Stats
21/22: 38.4 touches / 14.2 possession lost / 1.3 successful dribbles / 1.0 key passes
20/21: 40.1 touches / 13.0 possession lost / 1.8 successful dribbles / 0.7 key passes
19/20: 43.0 touches / 15.2 possession lost / 1.7 successful dribbles / 0.9 key passes
Son's Per Game Stats
21/22: 48.1 touches / 13.3 possession lost / 1.5 successful dribbles / 2.1 key passes
20/21: 44.8 touches / 11.9 possession lost / 1.1 successful dribbles / 2.0 key passes
19/20: 45.8 touches / 12.1 possession lost / 2.1 successful dribbles / 1.4 key passes
*BOLDED STATS INDICATE BETTER OUTPUT THAN OTHER PLAYER IN THE YEAR
