After the first 4 rounds, James Maddison is the Premier League’s number 1 chance creator.

Although the position of “number 10” striker is increasingly falling out of favor in modern football, clubs still have talented playmakers to arrange opportunities for the attackers. The success of Man City with Kevin De Bruyne and MU with Bruno Fernandes shows that.So after the first 4 rounds of the Premier League, which players are the most creative? The FBRef statistics page has a whole category of statistics on the number of actions that lead to a shot of the average player after 90 minutes, meaning a player’s creativity can be through passing movements and dribbling. or being fouled leading to a free kick.

And James Maddison, Tottenham’s most notable rookie this summer, is the leading player with an average of 6.68 actions to create opportunities/match. Maddison has adapted very quickly to Tottenham’s playing style under new coach Ange Postecoglou, making Tottenham no longer worry that Harry Kane’s departure will create a setback in attack. At this time, Maddison has participated in 4 goals (2 goals and 2 assists), second only to Man City’s Erling Haaland (7).

Despite a bad start to the season, Chelsea still has Enzo Fernandez continuing to show good form in the creative field when his chance creation index is 6.50 times/match, only slightly lower than Maddison. In fact, Enzo is better than Maddison in terms of creating opportunities from live balls, he has a total of 20 times. Behind Maddison and Enzo are Brighton’s Pascal Gross and Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze, of which Eze is the only one in the top 10 who still has no goals or assists due to his teammates’ wastefulness. Maddison’s teammate Son Heung Min ranked 5th, in addition, Son also ranked 4th among the players who create the most chances from live balls.

In the rest of the top 10, Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) ranked 6th with 5.78 actions/match and if he keeps this form, Saka will have better parameters than last season (4.64 actions/match). Phil Foden of Man City is right behind with a rate of 5.58, replacing the injured Kevin De Bruyne quite well, while Bruno Fernandes is ranked 8th with a rate of 5.50 times/match, not very high compared to usual.The last two players in the top 10 are both wing players who are good at dribbling. Chelsea’s Raheem Sterling is equal to MU’s Marcus Rashford in the number of successful passes, but Sterling makes more passes and fouls. Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma, although ranked 10th on this list, has the highest number of actions leading to goals in the Premier League.