World Cup stat leaders after first round of games: Trippier, Etebo, Stones…

Planet Football • 20 Jun 2018

Tottenham, Manchester City and Manchester United players are among some of the leading players after the first round of World Cup fixtures, according to statistics.

Cristiano Ronaldo leads the race for the Golden Boot after his hat-trick against Spain, while Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Diego Costa and Denis Cheryshev all bagged braces. Russia’s Aleksandr Golovin, meanwhile, is the only player to record two assists.

But what about the less obvious stats? We’ve looked at which players lead the way in terms of chance creation, dribbles, passing, tackles and interceptions.

Chances created

Kieran Trippier – 6
Aleksandr Golovin – 5
Thomas Muller – 5
Maximiliano Meza – 5
Joshua Kimmich – 5

The year is 2018 and Kieran Trippier has created as many goalscoring chances at the World Cup as Lionel Messi and David Silva combined

— Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) June 18, 2018

Dribbles completed

Peter Etebo – 9
Lionel Messi – 8
Amine Harit – 6
Gylfi Sigurdsson – 5
Hector Herrera – 5
Julian Draxler – 5
Neymar – 5
Raheem Sterling 5

Shots

Lionel Messi – 11
Toni Kroos – 6
Antoine Griezmann – 5
Edinson Cavani – 5
Julian Draxler – 5
Miguel Layun – 5
Yuya Osako – 5

"74 shots between Argentina (27), Germany (26) and Brazil (21) with just two goals scored.

27 shots between Iceland (8), Mexico (13) and Switzerland ⁠(6) with three goals scored."

holy shit!!!!! #WorldCup

— ray @ WORLD CUP (@araykita) June 17, 2018

Passing accuracy (min 45 mins)

Alisson – 100%
John Stones – 98.6%
Gabriel Gomez – 97.8%
Jesse Lingard – 96.4%
Guillermo Varela – 96.4%

Tackles

Hector Herrera – 8
Wilmar Barrios – 7
Ahmed Fathy – 7
Fidel Escobar – 6
Roman Zobnin – 6
Genki Haraguchi – 6

Graphic of #MEX's defensive zones from yesterday's win. Loved watching Héctor Herrera (#16) at the last World Cup and looks like it'll be the case again this tournament. Absolutely swarming in midfield. pic.twitter.com/vNDtGi7ALu

— Jamie Kemp (@jamiemkemp) June 18, 2018