John Jader Duran is synonymous with effectiveness. The Colombian forward, who seemed to be heading to another team and leaving Aston Villa, He eventually ended up staying to fight for a starting spot, although being a starter should not be a big concern when he has impressive numbers coming off the bench, to the point of outperforming Sergio Aguero and Thierry Henry.
The Antioquian started the 2023-2024 season in style, as in just 85 minutes played, distributed in the three initial games of the Premier League against West Ham, Arsenal y Leicester, has managed to score two goals, which helped the Villains to victory at the Olympic Stadium in London and at the King Power Stadium. Meanwhile, Ollie Watkins is going through a goal drought, having failed to score in his last eight games.
Durán and a higher scoring average than Agüero and Henry
Opta Analyst made a post highlighting Duran’s goal average compared to the minutes he has played in the Premier League. The 20-year-old striker has played in 38 league games for Villa, but has only started three of them, playing more substitute games (35) than any other player in the division and has come off the bench more than twice as often as anyone else in the team (Leon Bailey is next with 17).
Duran’s goal percentage is astonishing, as of the players who have scored seven or more goals in the Premier League in history, only Matt Derbyshire (90% – 9/10) has seen a higher percentage of goals as a substitute than Durán (86% – 6/7).
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For their part, among the players with 5 goals or more in the competition, solo Erling Haaland (one every 80 minutes) has a better average of minutes per goal than Duran (one every 96 minutes). With this statistic, he surpasses Premier League legends such as Sergio Agüero (goal every 107.9 minutes) and Thierry Henry (goal every 121.8 minutes)
Similarly, throughout his Premier League career, Durán has averaged one goal every 47.9 touches of the ball. It’s an efficient ratio and only two players in the history of the competition, since 2006-2007, have needed fewer touches to score. Haaland is number one with 22.7, while in English Adam le Fondre only needed 39.7 touches.
Taken from Opta
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