HAZARD or SANCHEZ

( what the ill-informed have been ranting all over the place about)

Who's been better,the league season thus far?????

Been reading a lot of lame posts all over the place lately.Notable among them has to be the needless comparison of Chelsea's Eden Hazard (birthday celebrant today) and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.

Recently i saw posts making the rounds of a supposed opinion poll by some sports website which puts Alexis Sanchez above Eden Hazard,largely because of the goals,the followers of the said website revealed.

Then i see members of a whats-app group immediately cataloging their career accolades up until this point.

For convenience sake,the fella lists a litany of accolades even to the U-20 level,player of the month mentions,third place mentions in some competitions et al to support his call that Sanchez was a better player than Eden Hazard.

Eden Hazard has proven to be
the most feared attacker in the league

As expected,he goes on to mention Europa League trophy,Coupe de France and ligue one trophies as all the mercurial Belgian has achieved.

So he concludes Alexis Sanchez has been the better player this season.Some people will never cease to amaze me.

Prior to this,there was another poll which stated that Sanchez was better than Hazard because he had more goals than the Belgian,an assertion i had to laugh off.

Piece of information to such ill-informed guys,who claim to be students of the beautiful game of football.

The official player rating index of the Barclays premier league,that's EASPORTS ranks even Diego Costa above Alexis Sanchez.

You don't measure a player's quality by goals and or assists only...(who does that?If so,then Manuel Neuer should have no place in the top three gunning to be named player of the year by FIFA,since he has no goals and no assists)

It's got to be the whole package....

Key Points on EASPORTS Player Performance Index (PPI) :

*The easports PPI is the official player rating index of the barclays
premier league

*it measures a player's contribution to the success of his team using key indices

*the intention is to remove any opinion bias and only work with proven statistical measurement which become more accurate as the season progresses .....

The indices used to measure a player's performance and subsequent ratings include:

*Winning performances
*Player's performance per match
*Appearances
*Goals scored
*Assists
*Clean sheets

EASPORTS therefore ranks

1 ) Eden Hazard first on 517 points
2) Diego Costa second on 508 points and then
3) Alexis Sanchez third on 489 points....the others in the top five are

4) Sergio Aguero,fourth on 475
5) Cesc Fabregas,fifth on 458

Alexis has been a quality addition to the ranks of
the gunners,and has been the gunners' best player

Though we may have other ideas about these ratings and what not,it is safer and wiser to rely on official,and accredited rating sites of the English Premier League for stats and some of these information.

so next time you hear or see your friends making needless arguments and subjective comparisons,do not hesitate to help that brother;let him deal with the facts,the stats,and the official rating agencies,rather than mere opinion polls which do not use any factual indices for selecting what they select.

If in doubt,advise them to go to the premier league's official website and search for the EASports template,click and see the ratings for yourselves.....(www.premierleague.com)

Meanwhile i wish Eden Hazard,a happy 24th birthday.....at 23 -,the sorts of things he was doing were scary,he would only get better as the years come!bon anniversaire!!!!!