To be fair, Ibra ruptured his knee.
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To be fair, Ibra ruptured his knee.
Those Scholes comments are ridiculous. Basically then, nobody should ever sign for United again because of the curse right?
On the other hand, here's a breakdown of his other stats, which are quite impressive:
Attacking Output (2024/25)
- 14 goals
Career-best in a single PL season.
Rank: Not explicitly ranked, but high among forwards outside top-6 clubs. - 18 goal involvements (goals + assists)
Just 1 behind his personal best (19 in 2023/24). - 29.2% of Wolves’ goals
Rank: 8th in Premier League (proportion of team goals scored). - 37.5% of Wolves’ goals and assists combined
Rank: 10th in Premier League (involvement in total team goals). - 14 goals from 7.3 xG
Overperformance of +6.7 xG in 2024/25.
Rank: 3rd in Premier Leaguefor xG overperformance (2023/24–2024/25):- Phil Foden: +10.5
- Chris Wood: +9.4
- Cunha: +9.0
Shooting Stats (since start of 2023/24)
- 162 total shots, 75 on target
Most of any Wolves player. - 20.4% of Wolves’ total shots
Rank: 3rd among all PL playersfor team share:- Liam Delap (Ipswich): 26.8%
- Cole Palmer (Chelsea): 20.6%
- Cunha (Wolves): 20.4%
- 24.9% of Wolves' shots on target
Among the top 3 in league for on-target shot share. - 5 goals from outside the box
Only 5 players in the Premier League have more in that span.
Ball Carrying & Creativity (since 2023/24)
- 276 take-ons attempted
4th-most in Premier League, after:- Jeremy Doku
- Mohammed Kudus
- Dejan Kulusevski
- 203 take-ons in opposition half
Again, 4th-highest total. - Average carry distance: 9.0 metres
Only 2 players with higher average:- Anthony Elanga (10.8m)
- Chiedozie Ogbene (10.8m)
- 46 shot attempts + 31 chances created after a carry
Only 20 PL players have 30+ in both categories. - 10+ goals involved in after a carry
One of only 14 PL players to achieve this.
24/25 Premier League stats:
Cunha - 29 games 35 Tackles 16 Interceptions
Hojlund - 29 games 3 Tackles 1 interception
Rashford -25 games 16 tackles 5 interceptions
I trust these stats resolved all your concerns
Wow those Hojlund stats. I know he's playing (or trying to play) as a lone 9 but that still seems incredibly low.
How does that compare to forwards from other teams?
He's in the bottom 10th percentile across the top 5 leagues for tackling. There's not many criteria where he's above 40th percentile, shit at nearly everything. Compare it to the shit Ronaldo got whilst scoring for us in his first season, Hojlund gets off very lightly for his contributions it's fair to say.
Cunha is just an all around good player it's going to be enjoyable to see him play next season.
Went to lookup the stats to help Hojlund and looked at Haaland but even Haaland does far better defensively than him, funnily enough on "Whoscored" they noted that "Hojlund has no considerable strengths" and as a note they put that he doesn't like to dive into tackles
Care to give us a name
Those are really interesting stats!
Where do our other midfielders rank?
Casemiro
Ugarte
Bruno
Garnacho
Collyer
Mainoo
etc?
Honestly, you watch him and you just know on the pitch, he'll seriously upgrade us.
I'm really hoping we've done our homework off the pitch.
I'm really hoping we've done our homework off the pitch.
Bruno plays in a similar area and absolutely smashes Cunha on those stats it appears.
Cas:
22 games, Tackles 77, interceptions 12
Ugarte:
26, 70, 25
Mainoo:
21, 39, 19
Bruno:
33, 76, 25
Garna:
33, 28, 13
Badly.
Brutal reading that
It genuinely makes me wonder how he's managed to keep his passing so respectable when in every other aspect he's completely lost. I'm not sure if 'credit where it's due' is really the appropriate term but it's notable.
In Højlund‘s defense: the stats reflect how he is asked to play up to a point and highlight the lack of service.
When pressing, his job is to force the pass in one direction, to cover one cb and the goalie.
Needless to say, he still is doing poorly.
When pressing, his job is to force the pass in one direction, to cover one cb and the goalie.
Needless to say, he still is doing poorly.
Quite the contrary in my opinion.
I read it as he’s doing a very low volume of pretty rudimentary, non-progressive passes and yet STILL he is misplacing 24% of them.
That is a fair point.
I’m not a scout mate. That’s there job to do. But you’re not trying to tell me there isn’t someone out there? If we play this system with 2 DM then it’s basically like have 7 defensive players unless he changes the wingbacks to wingers
Wingbacks aren’t defensive though, hence why he plays Dorgu and, when he’s fit, Amad there and why he wanted Quenda
Wharton or Larsson but both would probably be above 50m
The whole teams pressing is ramshackle at best
He played Amad there 4 times in total, Amad played more than double the amount of games as a 10
There's people on here who think he's a good player. Get this guy away from the club.Badly.
The sooner the better. Everyone saying he needs time needs a reality check. He might become decent elsewhere but not here.
Worth remembering that Cunha and Hojlund don't play in the same position so the stat comparison is a little unfair. However, when you compare Hojlund to other CF's it still makes grim reading.
I honestly have no idea how he can be so bad in the air. He's what 6 foot 2? Yet he's only won 22% of Aerial battles! Winning 20 of 87. The stats unfortunately back up the eye test.
Anyway back to Cunha. Sooner we get this done the better.
I honestly have no idea how he can be so bad in the air. He's what 6 foot 2? Yet he's only won 22% of Aerial battles! Winning 20 of 87. The stats unfortunately back up the eye test.
Anyway back to Cunha. Sooner we get this done the better.
Yeah it feels like Onana where bar maybe a few glimpses we haven't seen that player at Atalanta
This pretty much explains most of his overperformance then.
Some can't see past this. They see the three centre backs and as a reflex, scream "Defensive!". Also, another common misconception is the way that the wing-backs are spoken about. For instance, the idea of playing Amad there is almost viewed as a punishment for him. It isn't. We want our wing-backs high up the pitch. We want him scoring and creating goals. He's just as effective there as he is in the 10 position, plus it allows us to play an additional 10 such as Cunha, alongside Bruno.
For comparisons sake, where does Delap come in those stats? I'd look myself but I don't know where you got them from haha.
Another point is when we played traditional "wingers" under Erik, we wanted someone who would work back as well. Sounds a lot like...a wingback. You're spot on with Amad, he doesn't have to be deep in our half as wing-back - much like we wouldn't expect Frimpong to be anywhere near our box if he was signed.
why does it feel you're saying it like it's a negative? he also outscored his Xg in previous PL season.
No, quite the opposite. I'm rallying against the claim that he will regress to his mean xG. Think on average a shot outisde the box is about 0.05 xg. It's clearly a strength of his and will probably consistently outperform his xG because of it.
Exactly, take Leverkusen for example. Last year Grimaldo and Frimpong were getting a ridiculous amount of goal involvements from WB. That has reduced this year for reasons I don’t know as I don’t watch Bundesliga, but we can even see Dalot getting in good positions every game today but he’s so inconsistent in the final third.
Amad could honestly get 20 goal involvements in all comps from wingback if he played there consistently throughout a season.
He's exciting to watch - as he carries the ball well and has good vision - exactly what you'd want from the 10s in Amorim's system. Shoe-horning a winger like Garnacho in that role was always going to be difficult.
So IF we get this over the line as still not done yet then who are you playing on the right side. There has been talk of Amad being more of a RWB next season
I'd imagine it's mostly Dalot and Amad.
Anyway, really excited about this transfer, from the bigger deals probably the most since Sancho and Bruno before him.
One of my favorite players ever, but has he said one thing positive over the last few years? it's kind of annoying even with how poor we have been.
Amad won’t be playing there though. He played there at the start but then got moved into an AM. whether he puts him back there if we sign Cunha so Bruno can go back into a 10. Not sure.
This seems to make a lot of sense, but I do wonder how he and Bruno as 10s will create enough width to open deep defenses.
Seems to put it all back on our wing backs, who are hardly showing an ability to create this season.
Seems to put it all back on our wing backs, who are hardly showing an ability to create this season.
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