ooh_bit_of_bush@alien.topBtoPremier League@soccer.forum•Since when is villa this good?English
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10 months agoSince Emery arrived, they have accumulated the third most points, behind Man City and Arsenal. That’s over 38 games. They are top 4 contenders.
Kane scored 30 goals last season for a team that finished 8th in the Premier League. He’s now playing for a team that goes into every single league match as the clear favourite to win.
Lewandowski had probably already peaked as a player at the point that he left Bayern Munich.
In general, the Bundesliga is a bit more open and attacking than La Liga, and the Premier Leauge. Here is a Reddit post from a month ago outlining this statistic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/17c5jld/current_goals_per_game_average_of_the_top/
So I guess on the one hand, you could say that a top striker going to Bayern would be “statpadding” as they would expect to score a lot more goals than pretty much in any other team, but that phrase belies the quality of the league itself.