Analytics Report: Premier League Player Of The Week – Matchday 11 – Alisson Becker

Our pick for player of the week for matchday 11 is Liverpool’s Alisson Becker. In the 1-0 win against Manchester City, it was hard to choose one Liverpool player as our player of the week as a few others also performed at a high level such as Van Dijk, Gomez, Milner, and Salah.

However, keeping a clean sheet against Haaland and City’s attack and assisting the game’s winning goal gave the Brazilian goalkeeper the edge.

Also read: Winners And Losers: Premier League Gameweek 11

Here we have the analytics chart with Alisson’s key statistics from the game against Manchester City.

Alisson made 6 saves against City; impressively, 5 of those 6 were against shots taken from inside the box. Alisson recorded a post-shot xG of 1.1 while recording a 100% save success rate.

He covered an average sweeper distance of 14.3 while registering 2 sweeper actions and 1 high claim. Of course, he picked up 1 assist for that long ball to Salah and recorded a pass completion of 82.9%.

Here is Alisson’s saves map from the game against City.

He made a big save against Haaland’s shot when he got down quickly and used his left hand to deny City a goal while also making lots of other big saves. His distribution, apart from the assist, was also exceptional overall.

Alisson was critical to Liverpool’s 1-0 win over City and managed to keep a clean sheet against the most in-form striker in Europe’s top 5 leagues in Erling Haaland. The Brazilian goalkeeper also thwarted all of City’s efforts on goal making him the preferred pick for our player of the week.