Salah vs Asensio - 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 42%. He had a total of 42 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Marco Asensio has the following offensive skills. He has 2 goals and a total of 9 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 45%. He had a total of 9 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 31 chances.
• Marco Asensio has a total of 3 assists, 9 key passes and he created a total of 10 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 59% for passes into the box. Marco Asensio has a pass completion rate of 45% 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 Marco Asensio’s defensive skills. Mohamed Salah has a total of 0 blocks, 38 aerial duels and a total number of 24 tackles.
• Marco Asensio has a total of 0 blocks, 1 aerial duels and a total number of 15 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.