Holland leading the goal, Messi in fear
Football statistics website Opta has recently shown in one of their statistics that Norwegian striker Arling Holland is the leading scorer in European club competitions. On the other hand, Argentinian forward Lionel Messi is leading in creating panic in the opponent's defense.
Holland left Borussia Dortmund and joined Manchester City this season. With the expectations that Pep Guardiola pulled into the team, the Norwegian star is beyond imagination. He scored 17 goals in just 11 matches this season.
Among them, he scored 14 goals in just 8 matches with three hat-tricks in the Premier League. In the last match against Manchester United, he scored two goals with his teammate. After that, Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who joined Barcelona from Bayern Munich, scored the maximum 12 goals in 9 matches. He also has 2 assists.
On the other hand, Brazilian star Neymar Jr. scored 11 goals in 12 matches and provided 8 assists. French star Kylian Mbappe scored 11 goals in two games less than him. He has no assists. Due to injury, Karim Benzema did not play in several matches this season. This time he is far behind in the goal competition. 4 goals in 7 matches and one assist.
Lionel Messi is the best star of the time behind Holland, Mbappe and Neymar in the list of goal scorers. He scored only 7 goals in 12 matches. However, his number of assists is one more than his goals. Of course, a winger or playmaker is supposed to lag behind a striker in terms of goals. Because they score with the striker most of the time.
As such, Messi's fight should be with Neymar. From this point of view, Neymar is ahead in goals and assists compared to Messi. But according to statistics created by Opta, a website based on football statistics, Messi has surpassed everyone. The Argentinian star is ahead of everyone in Opta's statistics, which take into account how players directly influence their team's game through goals, assists, finishing, passes and dribbles.
According to the football statistics website, the Argentine star has created 5.25 dangerous situations in the opposition's defense per match. The football world finally got to see Messi's all-round prowess in football against Nice in a Ligue 1 match. After being hit by an opponent's footballer and falling, he passed the ball towards the goal to the player of his team in a state of unconsciousness without calling for a foul. A perfect example of how much of a terror he is for the opposition was found in that match against Nice.
