West Bromwich Albion vs Southampton - who is the better team?

Currently Southampton has a better 1vs1 performance index with 294. West Bromwich Albion has 25 goals and Southampton has a total of 39 goals. Our opinion is that currently Southampton would win the match.

• At the moment West Bromwich Albion has the better defense. Through the entire team they have a total of 1521 interceptions and 116 blocks.
• In West Bromwich Albion the two top defensive players are Oluwasemilogo Adesewo Ibidapo Ajayi and Kyle Bartley.
• In Southampton the two top defenders are Jan Bednarek and James Ward Prowse.
• Based on this statistics we believe that West Bromwich Albion has currently the best defense.

Evaluating the strength of a teams midfield is not easy. At 1vs1 we look at a value called Pass Progression Value (PPV). We measure the ability of players to play the pass into dangerous zones and to create chances. Southampton has a PPV value of 0.19 and West Bromwich Albion has a value of 0.16. Within the team of Southampton Ryan Bertrand has a total value of 0.49 and in the team of West Bromwich Albion the best player is Conor Townsend.

• To analyse the best strikers of teams we look at the amount of goals, shots on goal and an interesting metric called expected goal value (Xg value – measure who the probability of a chance to turn into a goal.)
• West Bromwich Albion has scored in this season so far 25 goals and 82 shots on goal. Southampton scored 39 and 128 shots on goal.
• The two best players of West Bromwich Albion are Matheus Fellipe Costa Pereira with 7 goals and Callum Robinson with 4 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 4 and 2.67.
• The two best players of Southampton are Danny Ings with 9 goals and Che Adams with 7 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 7.27 and 8.3.
• Our opinion is that Southampton has the better offensive players than West Bromwich Albion.

Based on all statistical information we believe that currently Southampton is the better team. Please feel free to discuss with us – the comment box is below. We will be happy to reply.