Long-term relationships
Football's Top
Bromances
Top defensive
bromances
Top attacking
bromances
All data as of 9 February 2020
Which current team-mates have created goals for each other most often?
Top attacking
Bromances
De Bruyne
Vardy
Salah
Football’s
Premier League
Gabriel Jesus
Iheanacho
Oxlade-
13.7
11.4
10.9
11.6
10.5
9.5
8.0
7.4
7.4
7.3
6.9
6.8
6.7
x28
x20
Man City (14 in 3,494 mins)
Leicester (5 in 1,504 mins)
Goals per season*
Chamberlain
Traore
De Bruyne
Aubameyang
Jota
Kane
Bernardo Silva
Alli
Jimenez
Aguero
Lacazette
Jimenez
Son
Aguero
Son
Liverpool (6 in 1,881 mins)
Wolves (8 in 2,556 mins)
Man City (19 in 6,774 mins)
Arsenal (9 in 3,227 mins)
Wolves (9 in 3,514 mins)
Tottenham (16 in 7,144 mins)
Man City (8 in 3,599 mins)
Tottenham (15 in 6,800 mins)
10.7
9.6
9.5
8.8
7.7
7.6
7.5
* Scaling their goalscoring rate over a full 38-game season
Championship
Which current team-mates have created goals for each other most often?
Goals per season*
* Scaling their goalscoring rate over a full 46-game season
Have Mane and Salah lost their spark?
Liverpool’s attacking stars have set up 10 league goals for each other ...
… but the wait between the 9th and the 10th was longer than 28 matches
Minutes played together
Goals
9 goals
in first 3,313 mins
1 goal
in next 2,984 mins
10
5
Excludes players who haven’t played together in the league this season or have created fewer than five goals for each other.
6,000
4,000
2,000
1,000
3,000
5,000
Chaplin
Forestieri
Bryan
Barkhuizen
Hernandez
Watkins
Grosicki
Austin
Paterson
Reach
Brown
Lucas Joao
Mitrovic
Maguire
Bamford
Canos
Bowen
Phillips
Diedhiou
Lucas Joao
Barnsley (5 in 1,721 mins)
Sheff Wed (5 in 1,966 mins)
Fulham (5 in 2,176 mins)
Preston (7 in 3,610 mins)
Leeds (5 in 2,784 mins)
Brentford (6 in 3,360 mins)
Hull (12 in 6,778 mins)
West Brom (5 in 2,999 mins)
Bristol City (7 in 4,263 mins)
Sheff Wed (6 in 3,719 mins)
All data as of 9 February 2020
Top defensive
Bromances
Football’s
x7
x10
* Scaling their concession rate over a full 38-game season
* Scaling their concession rate over a full 46-game season
Batth
Hutchinson
Bartley
Ayala
Huntington
van der Hoorn
Morrison
Hutchinson
Clarke
Moore
Martins Indi
Wallace
Ajayi
Fry
Clarke
Rodon
Moore
Cooper
Davies
Miazga
40.4
45.4
45.5
45.6
46.0
46.3
46.4
48.1
48.7
49.6
Premier League
Which current pairs of centre backs have conceded the least often when on the pitch together?
Championship
Which current pairs of centre backs have conceded the least often when on the pitch together?
Goals per season*
Goals per season*
van Dijk
Otamendi
Matip
Laporte
Lovren
Vertonghen
Egan
Basham
Vertonghen
Lejeune
Gomez
Laporte
van Dijk
Stones
van Dijk
Alderweireld
O'Connell
Egan
Sanchez
Lascelles
Liverpool (8 in 2,391 mins)
Man City (11 in 1,715 mins)
Liverpool (18 in 2,591 mins)
Man City (14 in 1,810 mins)
Liverpool (20 in 2,306 mins)
Tottenham (79 in 8,645 mins)
Sheff Utd (21 in 2,239 mins)
Sheff Utd (21 in 2,166 mins)
Tottenham (42 in 4,157 mins)
Newcastle (26 in 2,552 mins)
11.4
21.9
23.8
26.5
29.7
31.3
32.1
33.2
34.6
34.8
Stoke (25 in 2,559 mins)
Millwall (25 in 2,280 mins)
West Brom (26 in 2,365 mins)
M’brough (41 in 3,725 mins)
Preston (122 in 10,970 mins)
Swansea (35 in 3,131 mins)
Reading (28 in 2,500 mins)
Millwall (84 in 7,224 mins)
Preston (33 in 2,804 mins)
Reading (34 in 2,838 mins)
Excludes players who haven’t played together in the league this season or have played less than half a season together in total.
All data as of 9 February 2020
