Salah vs Cancelo - who is the better player?

• Mohamed Salah’s has the following offensive skills. He has 7 goals and a total of 25 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 44%. He had a total of 40 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Joao Cancelo has the following offensive skills. He has 2 goals and a total of 0 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 27%. He had a total of 6 big chances.

• Regarding the passing and playmaking skills we can see the following picture. Mohamed Salah has a total of 5 asssists, 29 key passes (these are passes leading to a shot on goal) and he created a total of 29 chances.
• Joao Cancelo has a total of 1 assists, 18 key passes and he created a total of 9 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. Mohamed Salah has a pass completion rate of 60% for passes into the box. Joao Cancelo has a pass completion rate of 48% 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 Mohamed Salah’s and Joao Cancelo’s defensive skills. Mohamed Salah has a total of 0 blocks, 38 aerial duels and a total number of 23 tackles.
• Joao Cancelo has a total of 6 blocks, 49 aerial duels and a total number of 42 tackles.

Given all statistical values we believe that Joao Cancelo 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.