[ 2013-08-11 ]

Not-So-Curious Case of AC Milan and Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng
I was reading some comments on a football news
website where Kevin-Prince Boateng was reportedly
drawn into replying with some angry comments on
Twitter.

Those Twitter users were then dissing out on the
fact that KPB used the hashtag of #Prince10 in his
replies.

The purpose of this fanpost is to analyze whether
Kevin Prince Boateng really deserves the AC Milan
No. 10 jersey usually reserved for more creative
players.

Let’s look at the facts (statistics) on Kevin
Prince Boateng’s Serie-A performance during the
2012/2013 season (statistics were extracted -from
the whoscored website-, with some added
calculations I threw in between)

The players chosen for the comparison are Marek
Hamsik of Napoli, Andrea Pirlo of Juventus, and
Borja Valero of Fiorentina, simply because those
players from the top 3 clubs provided more assists
than the rest of their team members last season.

Let’s discuss points per points for Kevin Prince
Boateng not-so-curious-case:

1. Goalscoring Ability.

The number of failed shots is alarmingly high.
Understandably he’s not a striker, but at 2.17%
conversion rate, he really should stop trying.
Being wasteful is always bad for the team.

2. Passing Ability.

Four assists. That’s F.O.U.R. in a season. And
the number of passes made by the other top 3
players are at least double of Kevin-Prince
Boateng’sattempts. I would let the numbers do
the talking. At 1.76 key passes per game, that’s
not even 1 key-pass for each half of the match.

Don’t get me started with long-ball comparison
*facepalms*. In general, the other 2 players
(Hamsik, Valero) made twice as many efforts, while
Pirlo was way a cut above the rest.

With the through-balls, Hamsik and Pirlo attempted
three times as much as Boateng, while Valero tried
1.5 times more.

3. Dribbling ability.

Wouldn’t you be surprised to see that 35-year
old Pirlo made more successful dribbling attempts
than Boateng?

4. Crossing Ability

Often he’s deployed in the wings, but his cross
accuracy is no better than the all-out striker in
Edinson Cavani.

What other skills that make a Number 10, other
than those 4 things above? your thoughts?

Source - Ghanasoccer

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