The great Pav v Crouch debate

[mil1lion]

Crouch Assists come every 404 minutes. That's one assist every 4 and a half games. Hardly prolific.

Pav actually scores once every 200 minutes. Once every 2 and a bit games.

In other words Pav scores twice as frequently as Crouch merely assists.

I'd say that's not even close in terms of quality.

Like I said, Pav is more productive in the final 3rd but does little else on top of that. Crouch does more of the other things in play. So comparing minutes per assist/goal is ok for comparing their direct contribution to goals, but doesn't prove that Pav is a lot better quality than Crouch. Just that he's better in contributing directly to goals.

It does show that he's more productive in the final 3rd than I realised. You're right, there does seem to be a distant gap in that aspect of the game. It's just the other aspects of the game where I think Crouch is more involved in. I've always seen Pav as the out and out striker, where Crouch is more of a back to goal lay it off striker.

 

[Kendall]

Link better to achieve what?

Something like 6 or 7 goals this season involved Crouch to VDV?

 

[bugsdad]

Havent posted here for some considerable time due to ill health,but fully fit now. Must say I have really enjoyed reading this argument.
I am fully in the Pav camp v Crouch and only wish that I was able to articulate an argument as well as Sloth.
Well done mate triffic analysis.