Adama Traoré is a dribbling master. Topics aside, the numbers leave no doubt. He is the best on the entire planet. In addition, with a considerable difference with respect to the second. This is revealed by the CIES Football Observatory in its weekly study. And is that the Wolverhampton winger averages 11.24 successful dribbles per 100 minutes of play, when not even any footballer reaches ten. Special mention for Haissem Hassan, 19-year-old Mirandés player on loan from Villarreal, who sneaks into the top 10 of the standings with 7.45 dribbles per one hundred minutes, with a brilliant 62.3% accuracy.
CIES has prepared a report of 33 leagues throughout the planet, taking into account the players who have attempted 40 dribbles or more so far this season and, in order for the statistics to resemble efficiency and not to play titles, injuries or minutes of play, it has been done through an average per one hundred minutes played. Interestingly, other footballers with a reputation for dribbling do not appear in this classification or do so very low.
The youth of the best classified is also especially striking. The first ten were born from 1995 (Nahuel Luján, the oldest) until 2002 (Fofana and Haissem Hassan, the youngest). The latter is a member of the Mirandés. Returning to Adama, he has a 78.9% success rate in his attempts and is second in the world in this classification, behind Manor Solomon, from Shakhtar Donetsk.
Curiously, Adama is not a footballer who spends too much time trying to dribbles, as other top players do.. Of those one hundred minutes, the Spaniard spends only seven dribbling. Vinicius, for example, uses 9:31 or Kylian Mbappé, 10:27. Both appear in this ranking although in low positions: the French makes 5.33 per hundred minutes, while the Brazilian is satisfied with 5.26. Both are surpassed by Neymar, with an average of 6.28.
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Adama’s engine
The Wolverhampton winger is experiencing the alternation between starts and substitutions. It usually comes in at the beginning, although, on occasions, it is a more than valid trigger. For the moment, he is playing in both bands and even in the middle forward. It might seem like it’s not his year as he has neither scored nor assisted yet, but his ability to break defenders is the best thread to pull. Likewise, against Aston Villa he picked up a ball in his own field and, potentially, broke several defenders to end up missing a heads up with the rival goalkeeper. A real plane that Luis Enrique follows very closely …