Charles De Ketelaere is back from injury and is ready to return possibly as early as AC Milan’s game against Monza on Saturday, and he is hoping to find a first goal.
Comparisonator have provided some data that reveals how promising his start to life at Milan has been even if so far he only has one assist to show for his time with the club, that being in the 2-0 home win over Bologna.
He is top of the ranking in the ‘top five’ European Leagues among attacking midfielders U21 in ball recoveries in the opponent’s half, with 1.57 per 90 minutes. The Belgian is first in defensive duels with 7.43 per 90, and also in ball losses in his own half (least, with 0.2).
He is second for successful key passes per 90 minutes with 0.98, while he ranks top 10 in attacking actions (6th, 7.43), defensive actions (7, 12.52), offensive duels (8th, 11.93), aerial duels (5th, 4.5), crosses (6th, 1.57) and dribbles (4th, 5.09).
Charles De Ketelaere is the top U21 attacking midfielder in three different metrics across Europe's 'top five' leagues.
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— MilanData📊 (@acmilandata) October 20, 2022
But according to some “fans” who don’t watch the games and only check the stat sheet looking for goal and assist, CDK has been bad and waste of money.
Can’t wait for the CDK to be back in the starting line up
OH NO! What a surprise… Some dumb*ass hater morons getting proved wrong here in sempremilan?SHOCKING! lol
The team doesnt lack talent. It has enough of it. We just don’t have any clue on how to attack. We can have the best LW,ST,CAM and RW in the team, we’d still be sh*it at attack.
Pioli has lots of pros.. but his biggest of cons is he has NO CLUE how to build an attack. The only saving grace for us is Leao’s individual skills and the fact that he isn’t injury prone. If Leao gets injured this season, I would be surprised if we even make it to the top 4.
The team isn’t capable of build ONE SINGLE attack without Leao. The moment Leao comes off, the team goes limp. This is on Pioli. Plays aren’t the ones responsible for it. Hope Pioli sees this shortcoming and improves on it, or at least be open to get help on building attacking identity by adding new assistant coaches who may have some brilliant ideas.
One word kills your idiotic post – Theo. Pioli win the scudetto. You don’t win league titles without scoring more goals than that opposition and Leao didn’t make all the goals, most of the players contributed. There is a weakness on the right side and in attack, this isn’t news. Anyone with half a brain, which excludes you clearly, knows that.
Experts rank Pioli the 5th best manager in the world. In Italy they select him the Coach of the Year. Some random keyboard warrior thinks Pioli is clueless and thinks he would fare better than him with his own FM-skills.
This forum really has it all. Delusion, humor, hate. 🙂
“The team isn’t capable of build ONE SINGLE attack without Leao”
Sorry to say this but not just you sound clueless as F but you also sound like a person who never watch Milan plays under Pioli.
“The team isn’t capable of build ONE SINGLE attack without Leao.”
LOL. The most fanatic fans are the best. 😀
CDK is a beast on field, the only problem is that he havent score yet. all his passing and pressure is so nice to hve
Once he gets his goal, he’ll be scoring every other week.. top buy
Why are they comparing only to u21-players? We aren’t playing u21-football. The real question is how he compares to other ACM’s in Italy. For me that is much more interesting.
I’m not against CDK, but I think statistics can be used in questionable ways and you have to question them sometimes to not get fooled into thinking what the person making the stats wants you to think.
Thisnis not exclusive to stats in football of course. But this is what we are talking about here.
I wish he’s back for Monza now and maybe makes a bigger impact and gets more ball in this game than previois games of late.
Why wouldnt they compare him with exactly that age bracket when he is part of that age group himself ? It clearly makes sense to judge his talent and current abilities and stats with those players and that is also a wider comparison than only serie a as its more leaguea and players included.
By the way his stats for serie a at least up untill recently then he also topped the league for most key passes pr 90 minutes.