Although Fradi won the first place in the Europa League with a great performance in the autumn group stage, in the round of 16 against the German Bayer Leverkusen, it was no longer able to cover the paper form and, in accordance with reality, was eliminated with a total of 4-0. The series only continues in April with the quarter-finals, so at this point it is worth looking at the season’s El statistics, in which, in addition to three Ferencváros players, a Hungarian legionnaire is also in the top five in terms of the entire field – two of them are directly in first place.
A Fotmob.com his statistics reveal how much Samy Mmaee, who was injured in the NB I match against Debrecen at the end of February, was missing from the middle of the Fradi defense in the two matches against Leverkusen. The Moroccan national team defender leads the ranking of clearances in the Europa League: he saved a total of 41 times in tight situations, which corresponds to an average of 6.8 per game, making him the most efficient in the entire El field. His performance against Leverkusen would have been much needed.
It is interesting that Fradi also performed excellently as a team in terms of clearances. In this statistic, Stanislav Cherchesov’s team is the best in the El season with a total of 182 clearances, an average of 22.8, ahead of Swedish Malmö and Greek Olympiakos on the imaginary podium.
Esiti earned the one million euros
The defensive midfielder of Ferencváros, Anderson Esiti, also ranks first in the number of tackles. According to Transfermarkt data, the Nigerian footballer, who was signed from PAOK in Greece for one million euros last February, has made 3.6 tackles per match in El, which makes him stand out from the field, as the second-placed Andrés Guardado, the player from Betis, follows with 2.8 . Another issue is that Esiti’s efficiency is not the best: 52 percent of his set-up attempts were successful, which is the lowest figure in the quantitative top ten.
