How about this James Ward-Prowse stat, #SaintsFC fans?:
— Saints Marching (@SaintsMarching_) November 7, 2020
Since making his first start under Hasenhuttl on 30th December 2018, he has missed just 117 minutes of football.
- 73 starts from 74 games (54 consecutive to now)
- 6,573 mins from 6,690 in all
The man is a machine 🤖💪 pic.twitter.com/A3X5KelBnr
The perfect midfield pairing
If there was one key area that Saints could not do without, it is the centre of midfield.
Via fbref.com again, we can see that they press heavily in central areas of the pitch – 530 of their pressures of the ball have come in the central third of the pitch and this is the third highest total in the top-flight this campaign.
They have also won the highest amount of tackles in the middle third of the pitch with 78 so far and this is mainly down to the pairing of James Ward-Prowse and Oriol Romeu.
Romeu leads the Premier League standings for tackles made whilst both players have combined to make 63 tackles and interceptions between them.
Ward-Prowse’s set-pieces have also been used to Saints’ advantage this season, with one assist and two goals from his free-kicks at Aston Villa.