A few Whites supporters have been lauding the ‘brothers of destruction’ Mateusz Klich and Kalvin Phillips on social media, after Leeds United StatZone shared the pair’s “excellent” stats from our Championship fixtures this term.
Klich and Phillips have been pivotal aspects of Marcelo Bielsa’s plans at Elland Road in 2019/20, as the Argentine strives to go one better than last season and secure United’s long-awaited return to the Premier League.
Phillips has not featured as much as Klich as a result of his suspensions and knee injury, but the Leeds-born 24-year-old has still managed to start all 31 of his league appearances to date. Bielsa is yet to tackle a second-tier fixture in England without Klich in the opening line-up, meanwhile.
The duo’s outings in West Yorkshire have now been noted as returning an average 76 touches per game for Phillips and 64 for Klich, whilst they complete 82 and 81 per cent of their passes, have played 58 and 65 key balls, won 51 and 49 tackles and recorded 40 and 17 interceptions respectively.
Data collected from the Championship this season by Sofa Score also show Philips has made 15 successful dribbles to Klich’s 27, taken 10 shots to 40, won 140 (55%) ground duels to 125 (46%), won 59 (57%) aerial duels to 25 (56%), created two big chances to score to nine and played 116 accurate passes in the final third to 645.
Klich is also a direct goal threat with four strikes alongside his four assists, while Phillips has contributed one goal and two assists across his league outings this term.
When the Leeds United specific StatZone account shared their statistics on Klich and Phillips, here’s what these fans had to say…
What sport was it again?
— Un Tipo Común (@untipocomun198) April 1, 2020
Klich is a beast 💙💛💙
— TonyB (@giptonboy) April 1, 2020
Brothers of destruction
— Jody (@Jody_TR) April 1, 2020
Some people wanted @Cli5hy dropped when we were on our bad run. That was when we needed him the most and he delivered, as usual. znakomity
— jamie croft 💙💛 (@CroftLeeds) April 1, 2020
Excellent, this shows how much @Cli5hy contributes.
— MikeyLUFC (@MikeyLUFCALAW) April 1, 2020
So often goes unnoticed @Cli5hy but then you see the highlights and realise what a crucial player he is for us. Love the mischief in him too
— Richard Baxter (@Richard92061933) April 1, 2020
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