“Pass Machine”! National team of Bulgaria won the Bundesliga – BG Football – National team
The season in the Bundesliga is going very well for the Bulgarian international Iliya Gruev, and another testimony to this is a truly impressive achievement.
After 9 rounds, the 22-year-old Werder midfielder is the number 2 passer in Germany’s football elite. This is what the statistics of ligainsider.de show.
Gruev took part in 8 of the matches of Bremenci. In them, 168 of the 181 passes sent by him reached their destination. This makes 92.8 percent of the Bulgarian boy’s passes for a total of 392 minutes on the field.
Above him in the ranking is Borussia (Mönchengladbach) defender Nico Elvedi. The Swiss also has 8 matches so far. There are 522 passes in them, and the correct ones are 487, or 93.3 percent. Elvedi played a total of 704 minutes in the game.
The top 3 sells defender Matthias de Ligt, bought by Bayern for 67 million euros from Juventus. Again, in 8 matches, the Dutchman’s passes reached 459, and 425 of his goals were analyzed, or 92.6 percent in 539 minutes.
In terms of offensive statistics, the top spots are reasonably occupied by defenders who mainly pass at short distances and are very careful not to get caught.
It is interesting that Gruev, who is nominally a defensive midfielder, in the last 3 matches of “Werder” appeared in an unusual role for him. Manager Ole Werner decided to use him as an attacking midfielder, albeit with one thing in mind, in the direction of securing.
“Against strong teams, it helped us that in this position through him we have a player with a sense of balance who, as more of a defensive player, doesn’t immediately try to drop balls deep,” said Werner.
Inevitably, Gruev’s pursuit of security contributes to his achievement in passing accuracy.
However, this did not prevent him from being called a passing machine in Germany.