Head for heights: Maguire tops van Dyke in PL defensive stats, Guerdes leads Big 5
April 16 – An analysis of defensive aerial challenges across Europe by the CIES Football Observatory ranks Olympique Lyonnais defender Marcelo Guerdes as the continent’s leading defender winning 85.5% of aerial challenges.
Leicester City and England centreback Harry Maguire ranks second, 0.3% behind Guerdes and ahead of Liverpool’s Virgil van Dyke. Maguire lost 16 out of 93 aerial challenges while van Dyke lost 29 out of 153.
Brighton and Hove Albion’s Shane Duffy ranks fourth in the Big 5 League table.
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