Compare Marco Asensio to others in passing, goal scoring, attacking, defense and more for the Last 365 Days Men's Big 5 Leagues and European Competition
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Observations:
He's played a lot of minutes in the last 365 days, around the 10th most in the squad. He's been active.
His shooting is good. People claiming that it's only youtube highlights are wrong. He's top tier in xG and shots on target %. He has this impression that he spams shots all game, but if he gets almost one in two on target, that's pretty good.
His passing, as expected is good. That's partly because he plays in Real Madrid and they are good at maintaining possession against teams that mostly let them have the ball. He is quite a bit better at it than players like Vinicius and Rodrygo, though, and his passing range is a
lot better.
This is where the balloon pops. His defensive stats are
terrible. I've rarely seen someone this bad. He's literally one of the worst AM/Wingers in the top 5 leagues at succesfully pressing an opponent. That doesn't sound like someone we want to have either in our RW or even at AM. Brahim and especially Yacine Adli are
much better than him at this.
This is Yacine. BTW, looking at his stats from the last year, we have a fucking monster on our hands. His stats are
incredible. I mean watching him in a few games you get to see that he's special, with really impressive vision and has an almost perfect weight to each pass... but the numbers are scary. He's off the charts in almost every metric we care about in his role.
Asensio is okay at carrying the ball, terrible at dribbling. Which means he's not a one-on-one player like we need. (and yes Yacine has better dribbling and carrying stats).
Looking at the numbers, Asensio really reminds me of Suso. A much
better Suso, but he's the same kind of player. No thanks.
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