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WISSAM BEN YEDDER: A GOAL EVERY TWO MATCHES AND EVERY 119 MINUTES FOR SEVILLA

24/09/2018

The Frenchman is breaking records in the Sevilla shirt with 47 goals in 94 matches, outdoing the club's famous strikers of the past such as Gameiro, Bacca and Luis Fabiano in goals per minutes.

Wissam Ben Yedder is breaking records in the Sevilla shirt. The forward, who was exceptional yesterday in Valencia against Levante, took home his fourth match ball after scoring his fourth hat-trick since arriving in Nervión.

47 goals in 94 matches. That was the mark reached by Ben Yedder yesterday after being on the receiving end of two assists from Sarabia and taking advantage of an error from Oier just before the break. The French striker has scored at a rate of a goal every two matches in almost a hundred games in which he has worn the red and white of Sevilla. Numbers that speak volumes about the diminutive striker's efficiency in front of goal ever since he arrived in Seville in the 2016/17 season during Jorge Sampaoli's tenure.

Ben Yedder has netted a goal every two matches for Sevilla FC

Delving further into the statistics, Wissam Ben Yedder has played a total of 5,579 minutes for Sevilla, which brings his goalscoring rate to one every 118.7 minutes, in other words, he beats the opposing keeper every match and a half. He sits atop the leaderboard in this category, and to highlight the true significance of the numbers that the Frenchman is putting up in Nervión, the players below him in the table of goals per minutes played are Kevin Gameiro with a goal every 123 minutes, Carlos Bacca with one every 143 minutes and Luis Fabiano who managed a goal every 144 minutes.

The Frenchman leads the club records for goals per minutes played, with one every 119 minutes

His hat-trick yesterday was Ben Yedder's fourth in Sevilla's colours in two full seasons and the start of this 2018/19 season. Together with Levante, Maribor in the Champions League, Formentera in the Copa del Rey and Real Sociedad in La Liga have been victims of a Ben Yedder hat-trick.

His favourite opponents are Alavés, against whom he has scored four goals in three matches, along with Real Sociedad, against whom he has scored one other goal apart from his hat-trick in the Anoeta. Likewise, Liverpool are his favourite European opponents along with Maribor, having also scored three goals against the English side.