Jose Enrique | For or Against his Left-Wing role? Stats Analysis

Jose Enrique Creativity

Jose Enrique’s creativity has been an important part of his move further up the field. If you look at the table below whilst Jose has created pretty much the same amount in the games he’s played at left back and at left wing it is the increase in clear-cut chances. He seems to have a knack of creating sitters for the team and the numbers below show that he’s created four times.

In the three games at left wing he’s created four clear-cut chances. That’s more than any other player had created in the whole of this season for Liverpool FC (stat counts as of full time against Spurs as Suarez created on clear-cut chance against Southampton but only had 3 when these stats were collected). In total Jose Enrique has created six clear-cut chances – the most in the Liverpool squad and joint fourth in the entire Premier League for 2012/13 (as shown below).

Creativity is definitely a positive for Jose Enrique in the left-wing position – he’s played tough competition and created quality chances for the side – this cannot be ignored despite my overall feeling that he should be played at left-back.

Jose Enrique Shooting

This may be a “moot” point because moving forward does mean you will have more attempts at goal but more attempts at goal is good for Liverpool. For example Raheem Sterling has attempted one shot in a game on 50% of his starts this season. Liverpool require more attempts from their wingers and Jose has had multiple attempts at goal in three of his games since moving and has also got into positions to score –  he could have done better in some situations but the movement is there and he’s done well in getting into position which is surprising for a player that is supposed to be a left back.

Next Page: Jose Enrique Tackling, Possession Wins & Losses and Passing – Oh and a conclusion… (click on page 3 below or click here to read more on Jose Enrique’s Stats)