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The La Liga season is heading towards its business end and it has already thrown up plenty of surprises and new performers. As always, there are also the usual consistent performers like Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who find themselves near the top for goals scored and assists.
While goal scoring and the assist leaderboard is predictably dominated by the Real Madrid and Barcelona players, the tackles leaderboard does not feature even a single player from the two Spanish giants. Without much ado, let us take a look into the top scorers, assist leaderboard, highest pass % accuracy and the tackles leaderboard of La Liga at the end of April.
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Top Scorers
The La Liga is heading towards the business end with 35 matches being played already (34 in the case of Real Madrid). Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Cristiano Ronaldo are predictably the top 3 in the race for the pichichi award.
With only a handful of games remaining, Messi seems to have sealed the pichichi award. Some surprising names in the top 10 list are Iago Aspas who is the highest scoring Spaniard with 17 goals and the impressive Gerard Moreno (Espanyol) and Sandro (Malaga).
Some huge names like Neymar, Bale and Benzema fail to make it while Atletico Madrid duo Antoine Girezmann and Kevin Gameiro have found their shooting boots and have both been extremely impressive in the last 3 months. Here are the top 10 goalscorers in La Liga:
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 33 goals
Luis Suarez (Barcelona) – 25 goals
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) – 20 goals
Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo) – 17 goals
Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) – 16 goals
Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao) – 15 goals
Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid) – 13 goals
Gerard Moreno (Espanyol) – 12 goals
Kevin Gameiro (Atletico Madrid) – 12 goals
Sandro Ramirez (Malaga) – 12 goals
Assist Leaderboard
While the goalscorers run away with all the plaudits, the ones who set up the goals also deserve a lot of credit. Barcelona striker Luis Suarez heads the list, closely followed by Toni Kroos, Pablo Piatti and Marcelo.
The famous MSN trio all make this list while two Real Madrid stars (Toni Kroos and Marcelo) make the top 10 assist leaderboard. Some surprising names on this list include Oyarzabal, Sarabia and Atletico forward Angel Correa.
Although Luis Suarez has tapered off towards the end of the season, his immense impact in La Liga can be seen from the fact that he leads the assist leaderboard with 12 assists. Here are the top 10 players with the most assists in La Liga:
Luis Suarez (Barcelona) – 12 assists
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) – 11 assists
Marcelo (Real Madrid) – 9 assists
Pablo Piatti (Espanyol) – 9 assists
Neymar (Barcelona) – 9 assists
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 9 assists
Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid) – 8 assists
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) – 8 assists
Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad) – 7assists
Antoine Girezmann (Atletico Madrid) – 7 assists
Highest pass accuracy
Unsurprisingly not many of the assists leaderboard make it to this list as they would have attempted certain risky passes in order to set up their team-mates. Most of the players on this list are either defensive midfielders or centre-backs whose main job is to circulate the ball and keep possession.
This can be seen from the fact that Barcelona’s Samuel Umtiti tops the list with an incredible pass accuracy % of 93. Toni Kroos is the only player from the assists leaderboard to make it to the top 10 in this list as well showing his incredible efficiency and importance to the Real Madrid squad.
The list is dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona players with 3 players from each team making this list. From Real Madrid, Toni Kroos, Nacho and Kovacic make it while Barcelona, Umtiti, Rafinha and Mascherano make the list. Here are the top 10 players with the highest pass accuracy:
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) – 93%
Rafinha (Barcelona) – 93%
Nacho (Real Madrid) – 92%
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) – 92%
Roque Mesa (Las Palmas) – 91%
Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) – 91%
Javier Mascherano (Barcelona) – 91%
Montoro (Las Palmas) – 91%
Bruno Soriano (Villarreal) – 90%
Kranevitter (Sevilla) – 90%
Top Tacklers
Tackling is one of the most important parts of the game and these players have not been afraid to put their foot in and win the ball back for their respective teams. A peculiar aspect of this list is the fact that not even a single Real Madrid and Barcelona player make it to the top 10.
On-loan Real Madrid youngster Marcos Llorente is on top of this list with an incredible 80 tackles followed by Malaga’s Ignacio Camacho. Other famous footballers on this list include Real Sociedad’s defensive midfielder Illaramendi and Atletico Madrid full-back Filipe Luis.
Here are the top 10 tacklers in La Liga so far:
Marcos Llorente (Deportivo Alaves) – 80 tackles
Ignacio Camacho (Malaga) – 79 tackles
Sergio Alvarez (Sporting Gijon) – 78 tackles
Gabi (Atletico Madrid) – 77 tackles
Sanjuro Oier (Osasuna) – 76 tackles
Dani Garcia (Eibar) – 74 tackles
Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) – 74 tackles
Petros (Real Betis) – 72 tackles
Roberto Rosales (Malaga) – 71 tackles
Asier Illaramendi (Real Sociedad) – 70 tackles
