Power n Glory wrote:jayramfootball wrote:Power n Glory wrote:jayramfootball wrote:Power n Glory wrote:theHotHead wrote:jayramfootball wrote:aniym wrote:On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?
That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.
All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.
but but but its a useless stat created to pad out Ozil's usefulness .....
He has a point because I haven't heard anyone talk about Auba creating chances. He's being judged on goals and so he should be.
Correct.
He's not a creator.
It's all about goals for Auba which is why he is being criticised at the moment.
Which is the same for Ozil but from an attacking midfield sense. He's being criticised for not getting enough assists.
Ozil is correctly criticised for his drop in productivity in the last 2 seasons.
That has never been a point of argument.
With Ozil it's simply about him at his worst still creating more chances than any other player in our squad.
Auba, at his worst, is not scoring more goals than others - in fact in terms of goals per 90 he's behind both Lacazette and Nketiah.
That's not a like for like comparison. You're switching metrics. Goals and assists are the bread and butter.
What you're doing is comparing chances created to actual goals. It's like someone trying to argue Auba is still getting more shots than everyone else in the squad despite being one of the lowest goal scorers.
Ozil's job is to create.
Assists are chances that are scored, but a creative midfielder is still doing their job if they create chances that are missed. An assist is always a mix of credit to the creator of the chance and the striker.
Right now we can't create chances and no one in our entire squad creates more than Ozil.
That is the Ozil argument.
For Auba, he's the worst this season of Nketiah, Lacazette and himself in terms of goals per 90.
He's failing badly and others are doing better than him.