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Top European league player stats of the 2014-15 season

The stats below refer to league games for players in the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1.

Some are shown as per game as the German Bundesliga plays four fewer fixtures.

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PASSING, GOALS AND ASSISTS

Most touches of the ball per game:
Xabi Alonso (Bayern Munich) 116.5
Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain) 103.12
David Alaba (Bayern Munich) 101.47
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 97.97

Most completed passes per game:
Xabi Alonso (Bayern Munich) 95.88
Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain) 83.34
Thiago Motta (Paris Saint-Germain) 79.67
Yaya Toure (Man City) 74.14

Highest pass completion (not DF, min 20 games):
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) 91.8%
Gary Medel (Inter Milan) 91.7%
Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain) 91.3%
Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal) 91.2%

Most goals:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 48
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 43
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) 27
Sergio Aguero (Man City) 26

Most headed goals:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 12
Andre-Pierre Gignac (Marseille) 7
Claudio Beauvue (Guingamp) 6

Most left-footed goals:
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 26
Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) 16
Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo) 13
Paulo Dybala (Palermo) 13
Manolo Gabbiadini (Napoli) 13

Most shots without scoring:
Jesus Navas (Man City) 46
Walid Mesloub (Lorient) 45
Luca Cigarini (Atalanta) 43
Fabian Delph (Aston Villa) 43
Guilherme (Udinese) 43

Most shots per game:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 6.43
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 4.92
Sergio Aguero (Man City) 4.48
Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich) 4.24

Most assists:
Kevin De Bruyne (Wolfsburg) 20
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 18
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 18
Dimitri Payet (Marseille) 17

Most assists from open play:
Kevin De Bruyne (Wolfsburg) 17
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 17
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 15
Luis Suarez (Barcelona) 13

Most chances created:
Dimitri Payet (Marseille) 133
Kevin De Bruyne (Wolfsburg) 111
Eden Hazard Chelsea) 99
Nolito (Celta Vigo) 94

Most crosses completed:
Kieran Trippier (Burnley) 91
Dimitri Payet (Marseille) 86
Stewart Downing (West Ham) 82
Koke (Atletico Madrid) 74

Most through-balls completed:
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 33
Dimitri Payet (Marseille) 21
Nolito (Celta Vigo) 19
David Silva (Man City) 18

Most chances created from open play:
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 98
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 89
David Silva (Man City) 84
Dimitri Payet (Marseille) 82

Most attempts to take on opponent per game:
Karim Bellarabi (Leverkusen) 9.5
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8.8
Roberto Firmino (Hoffenheim) 7.9
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 7.7

GOALKEEPING

Most saves made:
Roman Burki (Freiburg) 152
Marco Sportiello (Atalanta) 138
Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea) 137
Robert Green (QPR) 132

Highest shot save % (min 20 games):
Yann Sommer (Borussia Monchengladbach) 83.7%
Claudio Bravo (Barcelona) 80.7%
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) 79.3%
Albano Bizzarri (Chievo Verona) 78.2%

Lowest shot save % (min 20 games):
Raphael Wolf (Werder Bremen) 58%
Tim Howard (Everton) 61.1%
Ali Ahamada (Toulouse) 61.2%
Johann Carrasso (FC Metz) 61.3%

DEFENDING AND DISCIPLINE

Most tackles per game:
N'golo Kante (Caen) 3.9
Allan Loureiro (Udinese) 3.8
Maxime Gonalons (Lyon) 3.5
Gelson Fernandes (Rennes) 3.5

Most aerial duels won per game:
Stefan Kiessling (Leverkusen) 6.6
Christian Benteke (Aston Villa) 6.4
Joselu (Hannover) 6.3
Santiago Garcia (Werder Bremen) 6.0

Most interceptions per game:
Jordan Amavi (Nice) 4.6
Lloyd Palun (Nice) 4.4
Olivier Veigneau (Nantes) 4.0
Santiago Garcia (Werder Bremen) 3.9

Most fouls committed per game:
Stefano Okaka (Sampdoria) 3.3
Valon Behrami (Hamburg) 2.9
Four players on 2.8

Most fouls suffered per game:
Perparim Hetemaj (Chievo Verona) 4.3
Franco Vazquez (Palermo) 3.4
Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo) 3.3
Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina/Chelsea) 3.3
Nabil Fekir (Lyon) 3.3

Most yellow cards for diving:
Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo) 3
Dries Mertens (Napoli) 3
Bouna Sarr (FC Metz) 3