TEAM OF THE SEASON – PAPISS CISSE

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Papiss Cisse is an interesting one. The epitome of the debate that you will see in my strategy piece of “clinical or overperforming”. His shooting per minute stats were no where near RVP or Rooney but his on target ratio was spectacular, far better than anyone. Yet despite that his shot to goal conversion rate was just not sustainable. However, all the debate over base stats aside, the facts speak for themselves, 13 goals in 14 games is incredible. Especially when you factor in that he came from the Bundesliga in the January transfer window so had no pre-season or warm up games. There is no question that he could not keep up that ratio and unless Ronaldo comes back to the premier league or Messi decides he prefers money to Barcelona, no one could. However, for team of the season you just cant ignore 13 goals in 14 games and that’s why he’s included. A word of caution though, is that out of the 14 games the only games he scored in that involved a reasonable quality defence were.

Liverpool (H)
Swansea (A)
Chesea (A)
His goals ratio for Freiburg was pretty decent, 37 goals in 65 games, a goal every 1.75 games is not to be sniffed at, but I don’t think anyone, Alan Pardew, included, expected the success that occurred.

Here’s the stats:

Points: 105
Games: 14
Points per game: 7.5
Goals: 13
Goal every game ratio:1.1 games
Assists: 0
Bonus: 20
Bonus points as a % of total points:19%
Price range: Start (round 24) £7.0m. Lowest £6.7m round 30. Highest £8.2m round 38
% owned 18.7%

As an aside, the bonus points percentage of total points shows the advantage of scoring goals in a team outside the top 4. I don’t think anyone could say that he contributes a lot to a game apart from goals yet the bonus points were a magnet to his goals.

His prospects for next year will largely depend on his price. I don’t expect for one minute that he will repeat what he did this year but his base stats show that he should end up a quality second tier striker below the elite of RVP, Rooney and Aguero. To me if he keeps up his base stats he will be included when there is a good run of fixtures.

 

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