Biased viewpoint coming here, Lucas.
Has made the most tackles out of anyone this season, combined with how much he has improved and how important he is to us now, it has to be him.
Best tackler in the league based off stats, as mentioned. One of the players I trust completely.
This part really irritates me. The same stat was thrown out a lot last season by Liverpool fans, yet they never brought up who had lost the most tackles? Lucas.
19 more than the second most with 61. 111 tackles won and 61 lost with a tackle success rate of
64% is not fantastic at all. Especially when you compare his tackle success with other similar midfielders in the league:
Song (79W - 24L =
76% win ratio, far better than Lucas'),
Parker (93W - 28L =
76% win ratio, again far better than Lucas'),
De Jong (72W 23L =
75% win ratio)
David Vaughan (103W - 37L =
73% win ratio, better than Lucas')
Danny Murphy (84W - 33L =
71%)
For me, Lucas is not even the top 3 holding midfielders in the league. He's a limited player, that is pretty good at what he does, screening the defence, but very little else and offers little going forward. Where as players like Parker, Song and Yaya are all far better all rounded players and incidentally, better at tackling...one of Lucas' prized attributes.