God I’d hate to have seen your analysis of the likes of Sandro and Bolasie after their first seasons with us, if that is your analysis of our best player last season.Digne was our 2nd best player last season but don't pretend like he's flawless.
He was literally at fault for all 3 of the goals West Ham scored against us. He also scored that own goal against Southampton, got sent off after 11 min vs Huddersfield resulting in him being suspended against Wolves. He was at fault for a ridiculous amount of goals this season.
He's also a ball hog. With 2627 touches on the ball he had more than any other Everton player. Fair enough that a lot of our plays go down our left side but that's just ridiculous. He touches the ball more often than any of our forwards, midfielders or wingers. How many games did we lose purely because of this alone?
Jorginho is always called out for being a ball hog that does very little with it, and even he progresses our buildup play better while Digne generally just plays it between him & Bernard down the left by the corner flag. This in my opinion might be our bottleneck in attack.
As far as his goal contributions goes, he does have his fair share of moments this season but you can also just look at his G/A to see half of his goals were scored in the 5-1 vs Burnley and half of his assists were in losses vs City & Newcastle. That's 3 of his 6 G/A that essentially resulted in nothing.
Digne deserves credit for what he has done, but topping the chances created chart really isn't as impressive as it sounds seeing as he robbed Sigurdsson off of set piece duty & created 4x fewer goals from them. When you actually look at his stats from open play he only has 32 chances created. Meaning more than half of his key passes are from set pieces. Put any fullback on set pieces and it will add anywhere from 15-40+ chances created.
Heck Baines created 116 chances in 2012/13, the most chances of any player because he took literally every single set piece.
You're saying the left-footed set piece taker should take free-kicks from the left? I thought that's when you want a right-footer?
Digne was our 2nd best player last season but don't pretend like he's flawless.
He was literally at fault for all 3 of the goals West Ham scored against us. He also scored that own goal against Southampton, got sent off after 11 min vs Huddersfield resulting in him being suspended against Wolves. He was at fault for a ridiculous amount of goals this season.
He's also a ball hog. With 2627 touches on the ball he had more than any other Everton player. Fair enough that a lot of our plays go down our left side but that's just ridiculous. He touches the ball more often than any of our forwards, midfielders or wingers. How many games did we lose purely because of this alone?
Jorginho is always called out for being a ball hog that does very little with it, and even he progresses our buildup play better while Digne generally just plays it between him & Bernard down the left by the corner flag. This in my opinion might be our bottleneck in attack.
As far as his goal contributions goes, he does have his fair share of moments this season but you can also just look at his G/A to see half of his goals were scored in the 5-1 vs Burnley and half of his assists were in losses vs City & Newcastle. That's 3 of his 6 G/A that essentially resulted in nothing.
Digne deserves credit for what he has done, but topping the chances created chart really isn't as impressive as it sounds seeing as he robbed Sigurdsson off of set piece duty & created 4x fewer goals from them. When you actually look at his stats from open play he only has 32 chances created. Meaning more than half of his key passes are from set pieces. Put any fullback on set pieces and it will add anywhere from 15-40+ chances created.
Heck Baines created 116 chances in 2012/13, the most chances of any player because he took literally every single set piece.
Address the facts old fart.
