random facts / context about ansus season
- all of his goals scored bar a penalty in lorient and goal against club brugge were to tie a game, open a game, or win a game
- Ansu has the highest goals per 90 in Ligue One; eclipsing Ous Dembouz
- Ansu has the highest VAEP in Europe vs forwards (over Kane and Mbappe). this stat basically shows how much a player contributes to a play
- Ansu ranks in the 100% against wingers for goalscoring
- Ansu is also statistically one of the best player in the world to receive the ball and make a shooting chance out of it
- This is Ansus 3rd highest minutes played in one season, while just only playing 1300 minutes (18th most played player in Monaco)
- Ansu is the only player in Monaco to have scored 10+ goals as a winger/am since Mbappe
- Ansu had played 1068 minutes between the last two seasons, being injured for approximately 5-6 months between late 2023 - 2025, he had absolutely no rhythm or mentality before this season
- Ansu actually had started out with 6 goals in 216 minutes under the past coach, one who believed in him hugely, “I will play Ansu 10 games in a row without a goal”, until his replacement (who is a fresh new coach for the past year, had misjudged and removed Fati.
I cannot help but laugh at the idea that six months of knee surgery was ever going to take away what makes Gavi special.
His game was never about pace or power. It was always about angles, pressing triggers;technical floor completely untouched.