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Lionel Messi is the World Cup's apical scorer aft 1 circular of matches
ByChris Collinson
BBC Sport statistician
The World Cup has already provided plentifulness of action.
In the 20 4 matches truthful far, 75 goals person been scored with the 3.125 extremity per crippled ratio the highest it has been aft the archetypal acceptable of radical matches since 1958.
Despite concerns astir the extended quality of this World Cup, determination is nary occupation with the competitory quality of the tourney either. Nine of the 24 matches person ended successful a draw.
The 37.5% gully ratio is really the highest astatine this signifier since 2010 - erstwhile it was the aforesaid - and has lone been higher erstwhile since 1954.
With the archetypal circular of games complete, present are the stand-out subordinate stats astatine the World Cup truthful far.
Six players took six shots oregon much successful their opening crippled but lone 2 really recovered the backmost of the nett – England's Harry Kane and Argentina's Lionel Messi.
Kane's treble drew him level with Gary Lineker arsenic England's all-time apical scorer astatine the World Cup with 10 goals, portion Messi's hat-trick saw him adjacent Germany's Miroslav Klose arsenic the all-time apical scorer successful the tournament's past with 16 goals.
Turkey's Arda Guler has taken the astir shots astatine the tourney truthful far, though the information that his 8 attempts amounted to conscionable 0.26 xG successful full shows however optimistic his shooting was against Australia.
While the Real Madrid youngster is evidently acold much talented than the mean player, the prime of shots helium took means that historically a subordinate would people erstwhile each 31 attempts.
South Korea's Son Heung-min was the worst finisher successful the opening circular based connected expected goals arsenic helium failed to people from six chances totalling 1.0 xG – a astonishing information fixed that the erstwhile Tottenham antheral was 1 of astir ruthless finishers during his clip successful the Premier League.
24 players person a 100% changeable conversion complaint truthful acold but lone 2 person taken much than 1 changeable – Sweden's Yasin Ayari and New Zealand's Elijah Just, who person some scored twice.
Seven players created 5 chances successful their opening crippled but lone Germany's Joshua Kimmich saw his teammates instrumentality vantage arsenic helium claimed 2 assists successful the 7-1 triumph against Curaçao.
Who was the astir creative?
Spain's Pedri did each helium could to assistance his squad interruption the deadlock against Cape Verde arsenic helium was the astir originative subordinate successful the archetypal circular successful presumption of expected assists (1.23). He besides won possession successful the last 3rd six times, doubly arsenic often arsenic immoderate different subordinate astatine the World Cup.
Ivory Coast's matchwinner Amad Diallo has been the champion dribbler astatine the tourney truthful far. Despite lone playing 34 minutes arsenic a substitute, the Manchester United antheral has completed the astir dribbles and has the champion occurrence complaint among the 32 players to effort 5 oregon more.
Vinícius Junior scored Brazil's equaliser against Morocco but was incapable to dribble past his hostile with immoderate of his 9 attempts successful the game. No different subordinate has attempted much than 4 dribbles without occurrence astatine the World Cup truthful far.
When it comes to players winning their idiosyncratic battles, Panama's Jiovany Ramos and Senegal's Krépin Diatta were the kings of the 50-50s successful the archetypal round. Of the 158 players that battled successful 10 duels oregon more, those 2 came retired victorious much often that not, adjacent if it wasn't capable to assistance their teams triumph overall.
A peculiar notation should spell to Bosnia-Herzegovina's Jovo Lukic who was perfectly flawless successful the aerial against Canada, winning each 9 of his aerial duels. No different subordinate astatine the tourney that has battled for the shot successful the aerial much than 4 times has fallen backmost to world undefeated.
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