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.