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Mané-Salah-Firmino > Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez

(Look away now nostalgia merchants)

A thread:

-10 years apart.

-We’ll be comparing the famous 07/08-08/09 period of the Man United trio, with the 17/18-18/19 period of the Liverpool trio (not including current season as it isn’t finished, and the united trio only spent 2 seasons together).

First, looking at some raw numbers from the attacking trio's PL career.

-Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez in the PL 07/08 to 08/09:

Goals: 92
Assists:44
Goals+Assists: 136

-Mané-Salah-Firmino in the PL 17/18 to 18/19:

Goals:113
Assists:44
Goals+Assists: 157

-Now, Liverpool's trio leads the raw numbers, however the united trio played less minutes of premier league football in their two seasons.

Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez in the PL 07/08 to 08/09:

Combined minutes: 14,487
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 107

-Mané-Salah-Firmino in the PL 17/18 to 18/19:

Combined minutes: 16,873
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 107

-As you can see, across two seasons of PL football, the trios maintained the exact same number of combined minutes per goal/assist.

-However, the raw numbers are in the Liverpool trio's favour, and keeping up the same ratio despite playing 2,386 more minutes is very impressive

-Now, although the united trio kept up when looking at only PL numbers, all competitions prove differently.

-Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez in all competitions 07/08 to 08/09:

Goals: 140
Assists: 62
Goals+Assists: 202

-Mané-Salah-Firmino in all competitions 17/18 to 18/19:

Goals: 160
Assists: 67
Goals+Assists: 227

-Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez in all competitions 07/08 to 08/09:

Combined minutes: 22,367
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 111

-Mané-Salah-Firmino in all competitions 17/18 to 18/19:

Combined minutes: 23,844
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 105

-The Liverpool trio once again showing better raw numbers, scoring more goals and getting more assists across the 2 seasons in all competitions.

-And despite playing 1477 more minutes of football, they maintained a better combined mins per goal/assist.

-The main reason for the difference in these numbers, were the Liverpool trio's better performance in the biggest competition in club football, the UEFA Champions League.

Goals and assists in the UCL 07/08-08/09:
Ronaldo: 17
Rooney: 12
Tevez:8

Goals and assists in the UCL 17/18-18/19
Firmino:23
Salah:22
Mane:18

-Tearing defences apart all across Europe.

-Now, for the nostalgia merchants who were planning on spamming "the league and ucl was harder back then".

-The term 'harder' when talking about different periods of football is unquantifiable, however I do understand different seasons have different amounts of goals scored.

-There was in fact more goals scored in both the PL and UCL in 17/18-18/19 compared to 07/08-08/09.

-So heres something to even out the numbers of the trio's a bit, if you're one of those who isn't convinced yet.

-PL goals scored from 07/08-08/09: 1944
-PL goals Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez scored from 07/08-08/09: 92
-% of all PL goals scored: 4.7%

-PL goals scored from 17/18-18/19: 2090
-PL goals Mané-Salah-Firmino scored from 17/18-18/19: 113
-% of all PL goals scored: 5.4%

UCL goals scored from 07/08-08/09: 659
-UCL goals Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez scored from 07/08-08/09: 26
-% of all UCL goals scored: 3.9%

-UCL goals scored from 17/18-18/19: 767
-UCL goals Mané-Salah-Firmino scored from 17/18-18/19: 43
-% of all UCL goals scored: 5.6%

-So for those with the idea 'the league was harder back then', there's evidence that the Liverpool trio performed at a higher standard when compared to the goal scoring of the time, in both PL and UCL.

-Another interesting %, to see which front 3 was 'carrying' the team more in an attacking sense

-Man U goals scored 07/08-08/09: 227
-Goals Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez scored from 07/08-08/09: 140
-% of teams goals: 61.7

-Liverpool goals scored 17/18-18/19: 244
-Goals Mané-Salah-Firmino scored from 17/18-18/19: 160
-% of teams goals: 65.6

-The LFC trio with more 'carrying'.

-We've seen over the 2 seasons, the LFC trio comes out on top.

-So we could compare the trios best individual season, to see which trio had a better prime.

-Ronaldo-Rooney-Tevez in all competitions 2007/08 season:

Goals: 79
Assists: 30
Goals+Assists: 109
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 102

-Mané-Salah-Firmino in all competitions 2017/18 season:

Goals: 91
Assists: 42
Goals+Assists: 133
Combined minutes per goal/assist: 89

-Best matches for the trio's in their prime:
Man Utd 6-0 Newcastle
-Ronaldo: 3 goals
-Tevez: 2 goals 1 assist
-Rooney: 1 assist
Total goal contributions: 7

Liverpool 5-2 Roma
-Salah: 2 goals 2 assists
-Firmino: 2 goals 2 assists
-Mane: 1 goal
Total goal contributions: 9

- A quick fact, All 3 Liverpool players were nominated for the Ballon d'Or and received votes in both 2018 and 2019.

- Tevez didn't get nominated for the Ballon d'Or in both years.

-So, the Liverpool trio scored more, it assisted more, both in raw numbers and when looked at minutes played.

-They scored a larger % of their teams goals, and scored a larger % when compared to the PL and UCL average.

-The only reason this even a debate: Nostalgia.

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Sources: https://www.premierleague.com , https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk .

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