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Leon Bailey among world’s best dribblers

by February 28th, 2018

Exciting  Jamaican  winger  Leon Bailey is ranked at number 68 among the list of  the  world’s  leading  dribbler of the  ball so far this season in an analysis  of  Europe’s big 5 league players.

Eden hazard of  Chelsea  sits  at  the  top  of  the  standing leading  the  way  over   Neymar and Lionel Messi.

The C-I-E-S football observatory dribbling index is calculated by multiplying the average number of dribbles achieved per 90 minutes with the percentage of successful ones.

CIES says this enables them to take “account of both the quantity and quality of dribbles.”

The report says that while Neymar won so far a higher number of contests per 90 domestic league minutes 7.4……… Hazard achieved a greater percentage of dribbles attempted……. 75% compared to Neymar’s 62%.

Messi’s success rate is also 62%, from his 5.5 dribbles on average over 90 minutes.

 

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