But our genius of a manager has left Maddison out in the cold for large swaths of the season.
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Stats Who will score our goals this season?
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I think the key thing to note is we have moved from having a team with one or two 'elite' strikers (Kane and Son for several years) to a team where goals and assists are distributed amongst 5 players - and with that each of the players are getting less and minutes per goal/assist has increased.
A special match last night - for an additional reason most will not have thought of. We now have 5 players with 20 or more goal involvements this season :
Johnson 23 (16 goals, 7 assists)
Son 23 (11 goals, 12 assists)
Kulusevski 21 (10 goals, 11 assists)
Maddison 21 (11 goals, 10 assists)
Solanke 20 (12 goals, 8 assists)
After those 5 players there is a bit of a gap to :
Porro 10 (3 goals, 7 assists)
Sarr 8 (6 goals, 2 assists)
Johnson 23 (16 goals, 7 assists)
Son 23 (11 goals, 12 assists)
Kulusevski 21 (10 goals, 11 assists)
Maddison 21 (11 goals, 10 assists)
Solanke 20 (12 goals, 8 assists)
After those 5 players there is a bit of a gap to :
Porro 10 (3 goals, 7 assists)
Sarr 8 (6 goals, 2 assists)
Wonder what odds it would have been for BJ to be top scorer…
Last season he got 5 goals and 10 assists - this season he's scored both what he got last season plus what Richarlison scored last season (but hasn't this season).
Last season Johnson was playing more as an orthodox right winger whereas this season he's played more as as an inside right type role (hence often close to post for crosses from left side) , which has been the key change to boost his goal tally.
Not sure that has happened for a long time?
Maybe Dele, Kane, Eriksen, Son, all did it one season but 5 players? I doubt it happened recently.