Silva vs Messi

• David Silva’s has the following offensive skills. He has 3 goals and a total of 9 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 9.38%. He had a total of 10 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Lionel Messi has the following offensive skills. He has 18 goals and a total of 50 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 18.56%. He had a total of 49 big chances.

• Regarding the passing and playmaking skills we can see the following picture. David Silva has a total of 8 asssists, 10 key passes (these are passes leading to a shot on goal) and he created a total of 18 chances.
• Lionel Messi has a total of 12 assists, 22 key passes and he created a total of 34 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. David Silva has a pass completion rate of 84.88 % and a rate of 50% for passes into the box. Lionel Messi has a pass completion rate of 80.07% and a rate of 35.29 % 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 David Silva’s and Lionel Messi’s defensive skills. David Silva has a total of 1 blocks, 7 ariel duels and a total number of 29 tackles.
• Lionel Messi has a total of 0 blocks, 4 ariel duels and a total number of 31 tackles.

Given all statistical values we believe that Lionel Messi 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.