How did Czech national players Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufal do in the first round of the Premier League?

West Ham won 4-2 in the opening round of the Premier League and understandably that is why their players got much higher marks on average than their Newcastle counterparts. How did the prestigious statistics site WhoScored rate the performances of Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufal?

The statement in the first sentence of the article is absolutely true with one exception. The man of the match was home dribbler Allan Saint-Maximin. He assisted one goal, produced 4 key passes and made an incredible 10 successful dribbles. WhoScored gave him a rating of 8.63, the highest of any player in the match.

WhoScored saw West Ham forward Michail Antonio as the second best player of the match, although he didn’t convert the penalty, he scored the fourth insurance goal. He was given a rating of 8.38 for his performance.

The performances of Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufal

Czech midfielder Tomas Soucek was the third highest rated player in the first round of the Premier League! A rating of 8.28, a goal scored, 57 touches of the ball, 4 shots, almost 87% pass success rate, 4 headers won and the most personal duels won of the whole match.

You could say he successfully continued the trend from last season. Vladimir Coufal is a defender and they get lower marks in statistical indicators. Still, out of the 9 defenders who started the game (5 Newcastle and 4 West Ham), he was the third highest rated.

WhoScored gave the right-back a mark of 7.08, the slight knock may have come for the fact that Strak’s second goal came after a centre from his side.

Coufal had the fourth highest number of touches in the game (73), despite his smaller stature he won 3 header duels, made two key passes and won 4 personal duels.

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