Neymar vs Sterling - who is the better player?

• Junior Neymar’s has the following offensive skills. He has 11 goals and a total of 18 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 55%. He had a total of 29 big chances. Expected goals can only be provided to logged in users.
• Raheem Sterling has the following offensive skills. He has 3 goals and a total of 7 shots on goals. This results in a goal conversion rate of 41%. He had a total of 15 big chances.

• Regarding the passing and playmaking skills we can see the following picture. Junior Neymar has a total of 9 asssists, 49 key passes (these are passes leading to a shot on goal) and he created a total of 31 chances.
• Raheem Sterling has a total of 1 assists, 22 key passes and he created a total of 16 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. Junior Neymar has a pass completion rate of 54% for passes into the box. Raheem Sterling has a pass completion rate of 53% 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 Junior Neymar’s and Raheem Sterling’s defensive skills. Junior Neymar has a total of 1 blocks, 4 aerial duels and a total number of 39 tackles.
• Raheem Sterling has a total of 1 blocks, 17 aerial duels and a total number of 17 tackles.

Given all statistical values we believe that Junior Neymar 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.