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Looked back at this - the graph is slightly mislabelled! 😅 That was pre-possession adjustment; here it is once we take into account team dominance: #Pompey's EA STILL putting up insane defensive numbers! 🤯 #WWFC's MM just creeps up over that median line... 🥳 #Boro's AM... 👏

Max Arfsten scored, then got benched. Middlesbrough are wasting one of their best weapons. Sept 19, St Andrew’s. Max Arfsten starts at left wing-back, scores his first Middlesbrough goal and walks off with an 8.1 match rating. He hasn’t started a league game since. Five league appearances since then, all off the bench: 3 minutes, then 12, 16 and 21, and against Charlton he came on in the 77th minute. And his numbers are some of the best in the league. 3.50 successful dribbles per 90. That’s the best at Middlesbrough by a distance. Callum Brittain is second at 1.80, about half as many. Only four players in the entire Championship do better. 77.3% dribble success. Of the Championship’s top five dribblers, he’s the only one above 60%. Corey Blackett-Taylor completes fewer than a third of his. Elite chance creation. Arfsten sits above the 90th-percentile line for both open-play chances created and xA per 90. That’s the “high volume, high quality” corner where the league’s best creators live. Before the Charlton game, FotMob had him at 12 chances created and 1.53 xA in just 425 minutes. A fullback who beats his man more than three times out of four should be starting. Hellberg has a weapon. It’s time he used it. #USMNT #Boro #eflchampionship #EFL

The same iheanacho who played for boro ??? 13 consecutive games

“I didn’t know what the sacrifice was until I moved over here. I don't have a family to go home to every night, or I can't have my family fly on the weekend to watch my games.” USMNT midfielder Aidan Morris spoke about the hard part of playing in England. For Middlesbrough, he’s doing well on the pitch. But off the pitch, he has his struggles. Morris spoke to Men in Blazers along with Boro’s other Americans like Sebastian Berhalter, Max Arfsten, and Rokas Pukstas. “I didn’t know what the sacrifice was until I moved over here in terms of being so far away from family,” the 24-year-old said. “The time zone obviously makes things difficult. “So I was on this journey by myself and like I tell them all the time, we went through some tough times, you know, feeling alone and feeling so far away from my people. “But I think it's shaped me into who I am today. So I wouldn't trade it for anything. “And the football is special, but I think as a person and the human being side of things, I think I've grown a lot because of it. “And I love this place. I call it one of my homes now. I've met a lot of amazing people here, a lot of amazing teammates. “So yeah, it's a very special place and I love being here. “What is the hardest aspect? I don't have a family to go home to every night, or I can't have my family fly on the weekend and watch my games. “I can’t have friends I went to high school with come and watch a game. “I think every game on the weekend, I didn't have anybody in the stands. At night, I'm going to call family and it's 11 o'clock my time, and I have to go to bed so I can't really talk for long. “And just being out of touch with things back home.” Morris scored on Friday night to help his team beat Bolton. Middlesbrough currently sit on top of the Championship table, and look like the favorites to earn promotion to the Premier League.

Open Play Chances Created / xA : It's the same story for Patrick Roberts so far this season as last, he is a leader in Chances Created and xA per 90. Cardiff have had a strong start in creating chances with Willock, Tanner and Moylan all in the 90th percentile for xA.

Don’t understand why MPH gets games ahead of them Castledine is infinitely better than MPH and can’t even speak for Barron because we are still yet to see him #boro

Not even close. One of our best players and the club captain.