DOHA: Al Sadd midfield playmaker Xavi Hernandez was awarded the QSL’s September Player of the Month Award.
It's no great surprise that the ex-Barca man was the first player to pick up the accolade this season. In the month of September the "puppet master" scored once and assisted three times.
Xavi plays as a central midfielder for Al Sadd but there are very few like him in the modern game, he can receive the ball in the most crowded areas of the pitch, yet still he somehow finds a way to move the ball forward. Xavi has boosted Al Sadd's passing average by about 100 passes extra this season according to Prozone, the QSL’s statistics and analysis partner.
Playing as much with his back to goal as facing it, he crucially links up the majority of Sadd’s play, as can be seen on the radar graph by the incredibly high number of passes. More importantly, his assists ratio is extremely high, he is well known for his trademark defence-splitting passes that lead to goals.
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