Do the huge transfer sums make sense? The more you watch the modern No 6, the more they feel like the most complete footballer in the team
Ouattara is floored and Brighton can break.is outmuscled in the image below, despite having a head start on Caicedo.Football has changed.
Not surprisingly, the deep-lying midfield role has evolved over the last couple of decades too. For many, Claude Makelele will be seen as the start of it all. “Touches is quite a simple metric but it tells a good story in terms of who’s actually being involved in a team’s actions. And defensive midfielders stand out massively in that statistic. They have — and this is looking only at the top-10 players according to our model — about 77 touches per game compared to about 68 for central midfielders.
What also comes across through the statistics — and a reminder that this is at the elite end — is how the No 6 role is viewed as a more specialist position. For example, the data shows that the top defensive midfielders are spending 80 per cent of their minutes in the No 6 role. In contrast, the top-performing central midfielders play about 50 per cent of their minutes as a No 8.
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