Smallwood Stats

Interesting stats. Where's the best place to go to look at players stats?

 

He’s a good no frills player, some expected more but I’m not sure why he’s never been a creative goal scorer, which shows which area we need to improve because despite him being a holding kid he still had more goals and assists than anyone else who joined him in central midfield, including the attacking midfielder Jamie Walker. We need to recruit around him not to replace him, despite what a few on here think.

 

Smallwood had an average of 51.3 passes per game with a 76.6% pass success rate. 3 goals and 6 assists. 1.7 key passes per game.

51 games played with an average of 85 mins per game.

Source: whoscored.com

 

Its just a shame that most of his successful passes were sideways or backwards and not defence splitting, sorry the one against Northampton at home was, cut our defence right open.
Seriously though, he was much better than many made out, just needed a better attacking midfield around him.

 

Completely agree with that

 

One of the worst corner takers I can remember

 

The issue with him is he's surrounded by a poor midfield and negative tactics. He's busy trying to do everyone else's job as well as his own. To me his mistakes started creeping in in the last quarter of the game with tired looking underweight passes conceding possession. His job is that of Stuart McCall, break up attacks pass the ball to some one who can spray the ball about. Unfortunately there was nobody around him to do that so he was doing it himself.

 

Scored a few from his set pieces so I think you're going slightly over the top but I agree that I think we need someone better at set pieces this season.

 

His free kicks and corners are poor.

 

edited for you

 

Specically mentioned cormers which are poor. Free kicks slightly better

 

Smallwood can do his job well, breaking up play, redistributing possesion to the players around him. His issue is due to his age, an lack of speed, he isn't mobile. So Hughes put Gillead there to cover him, but the only real asset Gillead has is his engine, which isnt me knocking the guy, becahse we all know he puts 100% effort into his game, but he is technically limited in his game so Smallwood has to effectively do the job of 2 players. Put a solid box to box midfielder alongside Smallwood, someone who can do the attacking side of things, an we wont be having this problem next season

 

Basic stats:

https://www.playmakerstats.com/jogador.php?id=156698

In-Depth stats:

https://footystats.org/players/england/richard-smallwood#:~:text=Richard%20Smallwood%20has%20taken%2026,Smallwood's%20shooting%20accuracy%20is%2034.62%25.