Gilberto: “Best passer in Premiership”
July 27, 2006
Gilberto, so often villified by Arsenal fans as a sub-standard player, has a higher pass completion rate than teenage sensation Francesc Fabregas.
Gilberto is also the most accurate passer in the league stats-wise, with an 84% accuracy. Fabregas has 83%.
How about that, eh?
Some Arsenal fans are rightly pointing out that Gilberto never makes complicated passes and that’s why most of them connect – but why hoof the ball up field when you could just pass short and keep posession? If every player in a team did that, the team would barely ever lose posession. Maybe they’d never score, but scoring is just a detail, right?
Right.
….Right.