Currently, the previous AC Milan, Manchester City and Internazionale man has played 1048 minutes of league football with Nice, an overall near his final Liverpool figure (940), which makes a comparison of his time with the two sides possible.
However, the man from Palermo’s latest fall is perhaps best demonstrated using Opta's Expected Goals model to measure how likely a selected shot is to be scored dependant upon distance to the goal, angle for the goal, assist type, whether it was headed and a number of other elements.
It is far from only the statistics that tell this story; the player’s Nice teammates can be feeling his insufficient contribution currently. Valentin Eysseric recently criticised Balotelli as soon as the No.9 missed both the-2 draw away at Rennes, which saw Plea get injured.
Your message to Balotelli is clear; he must raise his game. However, when the need was not great enough already, Plea’s season-ending injury can certainly make a get back to form for the Italian imperative. Nice’s Ligue 1 title hopes may now be dependant on that happening or simply not.
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