Much has been made of Riyad Mahrez’s dip in form compared to last season, when he was vital to Leicester City’s miraculous title success.
While the Algerian has certainly struggled this season, he nonetheless remains one of the Premier League’s foremost creators of chances, as this stat shows.
Riyad Mahrez: Only Mesut Özil (32) has created more clear-cut goalscoring chances than Mahrez (29) in the Premier League since August 2015 pic.twitter.com/cjX1iVX02d
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) March 23, 2017
This stat comes with a caveat – Mahrez has created only nine clear-cut chances this season, compared to 20 last year. However, there have been signs that he has been rediscovering his best form in recent weeks, so it’s more than possible that he’ll up his tally over the rest of the season.
Has the criticism of Mahrez this season been too harsh?
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