Dribble
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How come the other Prem strikers with twenty-odd goals - Kane, big nose and Lukaku are being praised to the hilt, but our man with twenty-seven goals is having his game picked apart ? Big nose has missed more chances than any striker this season, but he's being talked up as a Player of the year contender. I like Kane, but he'll have to perform like he is now for another four years before we can see how his record compares to Sergio's. It's one thing to score goals for one or two seasons - quite another to do it for nearly six years. He's been scoring twenty-odd goals a season despite missing chunks of the season through injury. We're fucking lucky to have this guy. In the Prem and the CL his goalscoring record is monumental - and this is today not some golden yesterday. This season he's heading for thirty-odd goals. An unbelievable return. Players that score twenty-odd goals a season for six years or so are special - very special. Your comment about him passing to marked players on his right rather than unmarked players on his left rings no bells with me. Are you suggesting Sergio doesn't know how to play football ?
This is very surprising, but also very true, we actually are more successful without Aguero than with and it seems Pep has also recognised this.
COMPARING MANCHESTER CITY'S STATS WITH AND WITHOUT SERGIO AGUERO
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...er-citys-stats-with-and-without-sergio-aguero
Given the small sample size of the games he’s missed, it’s difficult to draw too many conclusions, but according to data supplied by Duncan Alexander at Opta, City have coped well in his absence.
In terms of their win percentage, they have managed to secure three points in 57.1 percent of the league matches they’ve played with Aguero this season and 75 percent in the games he has failed to start. That’s an average of 2.5 points per game when he doesn’t start and just 1.9 when he does. They have won six and drawn two of the eight matches he hasn't started.
Perhaps even more surprising is that City’s number of average goals scored per match when he starts is, in fact, slightly lower than when he hasn’t been available from the beginning. They have scored 2.3 goals per game without him and 2.1 with him. Again, his absence doesn’t necessarily mean City are going to struggle.
http://www.planetfootball.com/viral/can-manchester-city-live-without-sergio-aguero-stats-say-yes/
City better without Aguero
Of course, goals are great and exactly what you’d expect one of the world’s most revered strikers to produce on a regular basis. But wins are the lifeblood of any top European team and the simple fact is: Manchester City have a better win percentage without Aguero in the Premier League this season.
In the six games he hasn’t featured City have won 83% of the time, compared to 58% in the games he has featured. In fact, City have collected 2.5 points per game when he has not been in the side and only 1.9 when he has been included.
Surprisingly they’ve also scored more goals without him on average. This season they’ve scored an average of 2.5 goals per game when he’s not in the side, as compared to 1.9 when he hasn’t featured.
Those goals have also come at a faster pace when he hasn’t been included and the average shots per game have been higher.