Witsel vs Salah - who is the better player?

• Axel Witsel’s has the following offensive skills. He has 0 goals and a total of 0 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 25%. He had a total of 2 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Mohamed Salah has the following offensive skills. He has 6 goals and a total of 21 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 45%. He had a total of 32 big chances.

• Regarding the passing and playmaking skills we can see the following picture. Axel Witsel has a total of 0 asssists, 2 key passes (these are passes leading to a shot on goal) and he created a total of 3 chances.
• Mohamed Salah has a total of 4 assists, 23 key passes and he created a total of 21 chances.
• Another important metric to measure the players performance is the pass completion rate in general and more importantly the pass completion rate into the opponents box – because this is where most goals are made. Axel Witsel has a pass completion rate of 33% for passes into the box. Mohamed Salah has a pass completion rate of 62% for passes into the box.
• Expected goals, expected goal build up and expected goal chain value are only visible to our logged in users.

• Lets have a look at Axel Witsel’s and Mohamed Salah’s defensive skills. Axel Witsel has a total of 6 blocks, 44 aerial duels and a total number of 15 tackles.
• Mohamed Salah has a total of 0 blocks, 28 aerial duels and a total number of 16 tackles.

Given all statistical values we believe that Mohamed Salah is the better player at the moment. Please feel free to discuss with us – the comment box is below. We will be happy to reply.