Bukayo Saka

Midfielder25 yrs

Non-penalty xG per 90: 0.3710 non-penalty goals from 107 shots
Expected assists per 90: 0.348 assists, 89 key passes
Finishing: -1.67goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90: 0.408% of Arsenal’s build-up value

Bukayo Saka ranks 22nd of 402 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 16.3m on average, with 29% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 16% of Arsenal’s attacking involvement, the largest share in the squad.

Against their position

107 forwards

Shooting

per 90

Goals: 0.48
Non-penalty goals: 0.30
xG: 0.51
Non-penalty xG: 0.37
Shots: 3.22
npxG per shot: 0.11
Shot distance: 16.3m
Set-piece share: 29%
Goals against xG: -2.2

2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Creating

per 90

Assists: 0.24
Expected assists: 0.34
Key passes: 2.68
npxG + xA: 0.71
xG chain: 0.91
xG build-up: 0.40
Assists against xA: -3.3

On the ball

per 90

6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Defending

per 90

7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Discipline

per 90

Yellow cards: 4season count
Red cards: 0season count

3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Ranked against 107 forwards with half a match a round or more, the same comparison the compare page makes. Where less is better, such as being dispossessed, the order is turned round, so a high percentile is always the good end.

This week

Gameweek 7

Next fixture

Gameweek 7

away to Nottingham Forest

Sun 18 Oct, 15:30 UTC

Nottingham Forest concede 13.4 shots a match and are 0.95× the league norm against forwards. Roughly an average matchup.

Projected shots: 3.08
Projected on target: 1.00

Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.

Shots

35 appearances

Over 0.530 of 3586%± 6
Over 1.529 of 3583%± 6
Over 2.526 of 3574%± 7
Over 3.59 of 3526%± 7

The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 5 of 35.

Shooting profile

107 shots

Where they shoot

107 shots

Every shot By zone

Opponent goalLeftRight

GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Bukayo Saka, 2023/24, 107 shots in the final 35m, 16 scored.

left: 3%
Centre: 55%
right: 42%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route

xG per shot: 0.157
Shots per 90: 3.22
Key passes per 90: 2.68
Average shot distance: 16.3m
From set pieces: 29%

How the chances arrive

Crosses: 11%
Through balls: 11%
Own dribble: 9%
Headed: 20%

Club role

Arsenal

What they are for

PenaltiesTakes them: 6 of 10 Arsenal were awarded.
Open-play crosses8 crosses from open play became shots, worth 1.71 xG.
Corners and set piecesSupplies 21% of Arsenal’s dead-ball danger, from 29 deliveries that became shots.
When it mattered8 of 16 goals came with the game level or Arsenal behind.
On the pitch87% of available minutes.

What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Bukayo Saka’soutput.

Chances received

who supplies them

Martin Odegaard2.4 xG22 shots, 2g
Kai Havertz1.6 xG11 shots, 2g
Gabriel Martinelli1.0 xG3 shots, 0g
Ben White0.9 xG8 shots, 0g
Leandro Trossard0.7 xG3 shots, 0g

Chances created

who they supply

Leandro Trossard2.2 xG10 shots, 3g
Gabriel Martinelli1.7 xG9 shots, 1g
Gabriel1.5 xG11 shots, 0g
Martin Odegaard1.3 xG20 shots, 0g
Gabriel Jesus1.2 xG9 shots, 0g

Season record

2023/24

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Bukayo Saka carries 8.2% of Arsenal’s build-up value.

Build-up per 900.398
86% of forwards
Possession value per 900.914
86% of forwards

Ranked against 107 forwards with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in, with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance rather than the chance.

Match by match

Match log

35 appearances, oldest first

v Forest3 shots
2 on target

at Palace3 shots
0 on target

v Fulham3 shots
2 on target

v Man Utd3 shots
1 on target

v Spurs3 shots
2 on target

at Bournemouth3 shots
2 on target

at Newcastle1 shot
0 on target

v Burnley3 shots
1 on target

v Wolves3 shots
2 on target

at Luton3 shots
1 on target

at Villa3 shots
1 on target

v Brighton4 shots
1 on target

at Liverpool2 shots
0 on target

v West Ham9 shots
3 on target

at Fulham3 shots
1 on target

v Palace2 shots
0 on target

at Forest6 shots
1 on target

v Liverpool3 shots
1 on target

at West Ham8 shots
3 on target

at Burnley3 shots
2 on target

v Newcastle4 shots
2 on target

at Sheffield Utd3 shots
0 on target

v Brentford3 shots
0 on target

at Brighton3 shots
1 on target

v Villa4 shots
0 on target

at Wolves4 shots
1 on target

v Chelsea4 shots
1 on target

at Spurs3 shots
2 on target

v Bournemouth6 shots
3 on target

at Man Utd2 shots
1 on target

5 blanksno shot
not placed

Height is shots, solid is on target, and the dashed rule is the 1.5 line. The feed cannot date an appearance with no shot in it, so 5 sits at the end, counted but unplaced.

How to read the ties. Each rate ties back to the league average: solid where the sample is settled, broken where it is still being shrunk toward the league, an open circle where there is no cohort to rank against.

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