Ten things you need to know about Fiorentina’s start to the season

While Serie A takes a breather during international break, we’ve rounded up the ten best stats on Fiorentina’s start to the 2019/20 season…

•    No team has scored more goals than Fiorentina in the first 15 minutes of games this season (2).
•    Fiorentina have scored the most goals from set plays so far this season with seven (three penalties, four corner kicks). That’s at least two more than any other team in Serie A.
•    Erick Pulgar has created 24 chances for his team-mates so far, more than any other player.
•    Federico Chiesa has participated in more chances than any other player in Serie A: 36 shots, 12 chances created.
•    Fiorentina have completed more dribbles than any other team in Serie A this season with 91 – that’s at least 12 more than any other side.
•    The Viola have fielded the team with the youngest average age so far: 23 years and 188 days in the Week 1 clash against Napoli.
•    Only Inter and Napoli (8) have had more different scorers than Fiorentina (7) this season.
•    No team has scored more penalties than Fiorentina so far in Serie A (three, equal with Lecce and AC Milan).
•    No player has scored more headed goals than Nikola Milenkovic this season (two, level with Edin Dzeko and Kostas Manolas).
•    Only Lecce’s Filippo Falco (21) has completed more dribbles this season than Franck Ribery (20), Gaetano Castrovilli (18) and Federico Chiesa (16).

Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:48:00 +0200

Source: Fiorentina Official website en.violachannel.tv