As part of the radical changes the world has experienced since the outbreak of the corona plague, soccer players have also had to deal with completely different conditions in everything related to their daily routine in training and games themselves. Isolations, unexpected breaks, crowded games, changing and crowded schedules, long-term physical difficulties in case of infection, these are just some of the challenges football players have had to deal with in the past year.
To examine who are the ones who have coped best with the radical changes, the football research site, CIES Football Observatory, examined in 42 leagues around the world, including our Premier League, who are the players with the highest success rates in league games from 15.3.2020 to 10.3 .2021. The study examined the percentages of players who recorded 20 league games or more in their starting lineup.
As befits the top fights between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa since last season, 16 of the players with the highest success rates in the Premier League are those who come from the ranks of the champion or its deputy. In this case, the Greens prevail over the Yellows, with the leading scorer being Ofri Arad, with 72% success, after winning 18 of the 25 games in which he took part.
Next to him in second place is Dan Glazer from Maccabi Tel Aviv, with 71.4% success, when he recorded 15 victories in 21 league games. The opening five are completed by Dolev Haziza with 70.4% (19 wins in 27 games) and Luis Hernandez and Sharan Yeni with 70% and a similar balance of 14 wins in 20 games in which they participated.
In the league outside the big two, MS Ashdod’s players are the ones who recorded the best percentages, with four of them completing the list of the 20 most successful players in the Premier League in the past year. The senior Yoav Grafi and Nenad Svetkovic among them with 57.1% success, which are the result of 12 wins from 21 games, followed by Monterey Kamhani with 55.6% (15 of 27) and Roi Gordana with 53.6% (15 of 28).
Ex Bnei Yehuda and KPS in 9th place in the world, complete control of Bayern players in the 5 senior leagues
And what is happening in the world? Teams like Red Star Belgrade, Rangers and Norwegian Bodo Glimt, who have unquestionably dominated their leagues, have sent most of the players in the top 20 list. Among those names can be found the ex Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Kfar Saba, Nikita Chaikin, who stands at the gate of the team from Norway. In 20 league games in which he has opened between the posts in the last year, he recorded 18 victories, equal to 90% success and placed him in 9th place in the world in the year of the Corona. The player at the top of the table with the highest percentage in world football is Milan Gaich from the Red Star, who has won 20 of the 21 games in which he started (95.2%).
In the top five leagues, the dominance of Bayern Munich players is almost absolute, with 6 representatives in the opening seven and 11 in the list of 20. Serge Gnabry is the one who takes the first place with 91.3 percent success, after winning 21 of the 23 Bundesliga games in which he has started since 15.3.2020. Joshua Kimich and Leon Gorzka join him in the opening trio, with Bernardo Silva IV (Manchester City) being the only representative outside the German champions in the top five.
