The best chance creators, dribblers, tacklers & more in the CL this term

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Planet Football
13th December 2018

Four Manchester City players are among the Champions League best statistical performers this season, alongside former Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United men.

Liverpool and Tottenham were made to sweat over their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages but eventually made it through by the skin of their teeth.

With the group stages now over, we’ve taken a look at some of the best collective and individual performers according to a number of statistical categories.

Team goals

PSG – 17
Man City – 16
Porto – 15
Bayern Munich – 15
Barcelona – 14

Chances created

Real Madrid – 100
Barcelona – 90
Man City – 88
Tottenham – 83
Juventus – 81

Shot conversion rate

Porto – 26.79%
PSG – 22.37%
Bayern Munich – 20%
Borussia Dortmund – 18.52%
Man City – 17.98%

Last but not least, Moussa Marega of @FCPorto scored 5 times in the group stages. All 5 are the first of his goals in the tournament, not bad going from 0 to 5 in 6 games!

He gave a lot for Porto in the games, not just scoring but, was brilliant in linking up play/working hard. pic.twitter.com/ezzWsnMcKd

— Crawley Cosmos FC (@CrawleyCosmosFC) December 13, 2018

Goals conceded

Borussia Dortmund – 2
Man Utd – 4
Juventus – 4
Schalke – 4
Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Napoli, Barcelona, Ajax & Club Brugge – 5

Individual goals

Robert Lewandowski – 8
Lionel Messi – 6
Edin Dzeko, Moussa Marega, Neymar, Dusan Tadic, Paulo Dybala & Andrej Kramaric – 5

Assists

Kylian Mbappe, Memphis Depay & Riyad Mahrez – 4
Jordi Alba, Ismaily, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Marko Marin, Achraf Hakimi & Philippe Coutinho – 3

Chances created

Toni Kroos – 24
Memphis Depay – 22
Neymar – 21
Aleksey Miranchuk – 19
Nikola Vlasic – 18

Passing accuracy (min 180 mins played)

John Stones – 95.72%
Alvaro Ordiozola – 95.45%
Omer Toprak – 95.34%
Toni Kroos – 95.09%
Manuel Akanji – 95.05%

Shot conversion (min five shots)

Raphael Guerreiro – 57.14%
Dusan Tadic – 55.56%
Jesús Corona, Maxwel Cornet & Nicolás Tagliafico – 50%
Moussa Marega – 45.45%
David Silva – 42.86%

Raphael Guerreiro has such a sneaky knack for goals. Averages 0.36 per 90 in his Dortmund career in league and Europe, which is amazing given a lot of the positions he's played.

— Oscar (@Reunewal) December 11, 2018