{"id":866719,"date":"2026-10-01T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866719\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:38:11","slug":"the-most-prolific-creative-force-in-europe-arda-guler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866719\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Prolific Creative Force In Europe: Arda G\u00fcler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today<\/a>, Real Madrid announced that Arda G\u00fcler is the team\u2019s player of the month for September. That adds up \u2014 he has probably been the team\u2019s best player this season and the only reason why he is not the league\u2019s best performer full stop is because Raphina ingested some vibranium into his veins and has looked unstoppable.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, beyond Real Madrid, G\u00fcler has not just been the team\u2019s best creator \u2014 he\u2019s also been the world\u2019s best creator.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not an exaggeration. G\u00fcler has been slinging key passes out of his eye balls. One look up, the chance is already created. Over and over again, the Turk has prolifically created chances out of thin air, and if not for poor finishing from his teammates, he\u2019d lead the league in assists.<\/p>\n

G\u00fcler has created an xGA of 3.01, per Statmuse, with only two assists to his name. Lamine Yamal, meanwhile, has four assists from an xGA of 2.71. Freak finishing vs poor finishing is often the deciding factor when it comes to assist numbers.<\/p>\n

G\u00fcler has created 28 chances in La Liga, the most of any player in the league \u2014 four more than Lamine Yamal and 12 more than the next tier of creators: Unai L\u00f3pez, Edu Exp\u00f3sito and I\u00f1igo Vicente. To put it into perspective how prolific he is at creating chances, he creates a chance every 12.5 minutes, and a big chance every 43.6 minutes.<\/p>\n

G\u00fcler\u2019s 28 chances created are also the most in Europe. When you look at total numbers, Lamine Yamal comes close, but if you look at the numbers per 90 (which is apt given that G\u00fcler hasn\u2019t started every game), he doubles Lamine Yamal\u2019s numbers (3.73 chances created vs 7.28 \u2014 a surreal number).<\/p>\n

To put those numbers into perspective, despite playing the least amount of minutes out of the top creators in Europe, he still has the highest volume of chances created.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hidden\u2019 in those key pass numbers are some set pieces, but you should be fine with that. If it was easy racking up key passes by merely being the team\u2019s primary free-kick taker, then everyone would lead the charts. But they don\u2019t, and poking fun at it doesn\u2019t make sense, and it\u2019s something lazy analysts used to do to drag Toni Kroos as well.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see where the data lies over the entire season. G\u00fcler is currently on pace to dwarf his already impressive numbers from last season. Off the bench against Rayo Vallecano, he had an unfathomable five chances created in 18 minutes alone.<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure, Real Madrid don\u2019t have any issues generating chances if Arda G\u00fcler is on the pitch. And with that simple truth, he objectively should not be on the bench, at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, Real Madrid announced that Arda G\u00fcler is the team\u2019s player of the month for September. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[85561,171766,85562,84439,403,99],"class_list":["post-866719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-kiyans-observations","tag-real-madrid-cf-data-analysis","tag-real-madrid-cf-formations-and-tactics","tag-real-madrid-cf-players","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}