Comparing Boubacar Kamara’s 2021-22 stats to Man Utd’s midfielders

Planet Football • 13 Dec 2021

Manchester United are looking to bolster their midfield options and have now been linked with Marseille’s Boubacar Kamara.

According to The Atheltic, Kamara is looking to leave Marseille as a free agent at the end of this season and United are currently monitoring the situation.

We’ve compared his 2021-22 Ligue 1 stats to the corresponding Premier League stats of United’s current central midfield options. Note: we’ve not included Donny van de Beek or Jesse Lingard due to their lack of minutes this season.

Goals
Bruno Fernandes – 5
Fred – 2
Boubacar Kamara – 1
Scott McTominay – 0
Paul Pogba – 0
Nemanja Matic – 0

Assists
Paul Pogba – 7
Bruno Fernandes – 3
Nemanja Matic – 2
Fred – 1
Boubacar Kamara – 0
Scott McTominay – 0

The skill. The assist. 🥶

Paul Pogba is going to be a 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎 this season 😅pic.twitter.com/SQaBSUiirk

— GOAL (@goal) August 23, 2021

Minutes per goal or assist
Paul Pogba – 90.5
Bruno Fernandes – 173.2
Nemanja Matic – 236
Fred – 374.6
Boubacar Kamara – 1060
Scott McTominay – N/A

Chances created per 90 minutes
Bruno Fernandes – 2.9
Paul Pogba – 2.1
Nemanja Matic – 1.0
Scott McTominay – 1.0
Fred – 0.9
Boubacar Kamara – 0.8

Successful dribbles per 90 minutes (success rate)
Paul Pogba – 2.6 (74.3%)
Scott McTominay – 1.2 (85.7%)
Nemanja Matic – 1.0 (66.7%)
Bruno Fernandes – 0.6 (42.8%)
Fred – 0.5 (50%)
Boubacar Kamara – 0.3 (50%)

🗞 Boubacar Kamara wants to leave Marseille as a free agent at the end of the season. He is under consideration at a traditional top-four Premier League club and #mufc are also across the situation – his profile is thought to carry appeal at Bayern Munich too. [@David_Ornstein]

— UtdDistrict (@UtdDistrict) December 13, 2021

Passing accuracy
Boubacar Kamara – 89.8%
Scott McTominay – 87%
Nemanja Matic – 86.2%
Paul Pogba – 85%
Fred – 83.5%
Bruno Fernandes – 76.4%

Successful tackles per 90 minutes (success rate)
Fred – 3.0 (53.5%)
Scott McTominay – 2.4 (64.8%)
Nemanja Matic – 2.1 (72.4%)
Boubacar Kamara – 1.8 (72%)
Bruno Fernandes – 1.5 (41.6%)
Paul Pogba – 1.1 (39.3%)