Gareth Bale continues to impress for Spurs this season as he scored his fifteenth goal overall in the Premier League and his 12th in his last 13 starts. To put into perspective how well Gareth Bale is doing we’ve created a little info-graphic below that compares him to the Premier League’s top scorers Robin van Persie and Luis Suarez.
The stats show that Gareth Bale has attempted more shots, scored more goals and has a superior shooting accuracy. The only area in which he comes second is in his chance conversion as van Persie is ahead in this statistic.
The point of the info-graphic is to show that Gareth Bale is the most in-form “goal-scorer” in the Premier League at the moment.
The stats for the 2012/13 season from our stats centre are below for the top goal-scorers where Bale is now third.
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So… why choose to start your numbers just 13 games back? With the ebb-and-flow of the EPL, players will get on runs (as Gareth is currently) and will have periods of lack.
If you’re trying to make a case for Bale as the Player of the Year, though, I think Luis Suarez may be putting a nail in that as we speak. If Luis gets a fair vote, he will win the award — especially since Liverpool now has other options and Luis is starting to put up video-game-like numbers. With Sturridge and Coutinho opening the defense and Gerrard working his more natural magic from behind them, the opportunities, henceforth, for the Uruguayan firecracker are going to explode.