Giroud vs Salah - who is the better player?

• Olivier Giroud’s has the following offensive skills. He has 6 goals and a total of 16 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 39%. He had a total of 29 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Mohamed Salah 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.

• Regarding the passing and playmaking skills we can see the following picture. Olivier Giroud has a total of 4 asssists, 9 key passes (these are passes leading to a shot on goal) and he created a total of 9 chances.
• Mohamed Salah has a total of 5 assists, 29 key passes and he created a total of 29 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. Olivier Giroud has a pass completion rate of 43% for passes into the box. Mohamed Salah has a pass completion rate of 60% 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 Olivier Giroud’s and Mohamed Salah’s defensive skills. Olivier Giroud has a total of 0 blocks, 126 aerial duels and a total number of 19 tackles.
• Mohamed Salah has a total of 0 blocks, 38 aerial duels and a total number of 23 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.