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Tottenham's most clinical player in front of goal this season will surprise you

Yves Bissouma celebrates with Son Heung-min after scoring Tottenham's opener vs Everton (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Yves Bissouma is Tottenham's most clinical player in front of goal this season amid the flood of goals scored by Ange Postecoglou's side.

Spurs are the Premier League's top scorers with 23 goals in 11 matches and have netted 35 so far across 17 games in all competitions under the Australian this campaign. Tottenham have recorded the second most shots on goal per game in the Premier League (17.2), but have also sent the second most off target (6.3).

They have created the third highest amount chances in the league this season with 137 to their name, but have missed the joint-third most big chances (24) in the competition.

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New £65million striker Dominic Solanke already has six goals in all competitions under his belt since arriving from Bournemouth and has earned plenty of praise for his all-round game which has earned him an England recall. But according to research from Grosvenor Sport, the 27-year-old forward has underperformed in front of goal.

The data shows that by netting four times in the Premier League against an expected goals (xG) of 6.32 and he sits third for xG underperformance in the Premier League.

Bissouma is perhaps surprisingly Spurs’ most clinical player in front of goal this season, netting twice against an xG of just 0.16 to sit tenth overall for overperformance in the competition. He's followed by his Tottenham captain Son Heung-min, who regularly features at the top of this statistic and the South Korean star has scored three times this season, resulting in an overperformance of -1.56.

Of all the Premier League sides, the data shows that Brentford's Bryan Mbeumo is the most clinical player this season, overperforming his xG by -4.06, while Fulham's Adama Traore is the most wasteful in front of goal, underperforming his xG by +2.87.

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