RBL's start to the season in numbers: Key statistics after 15 games

RB Leipzig go into the resumption of the Bundesliga season on 20th January 2023 in third place in the table. Their opponents for the first home game of the New Year are none other than record champion and currently leaders Bayern Munich. But until then, let’s first take a look back at how the season has gone up until now.

After an unsuccessful start to the season, the team has picked up momentum following the change in head coach on 8th September, when Marco Rose replaced Domenico Tedesco. Since 1st October, there has been a impressive run of results, with RBL unbeaten in 13 competitive matches.

In the league, there have recently been four straight wins in succession, with a total of eight win in 15 games, alongside four further draws. At home, RBL have the best record in the league, recording six wins from seven games and having scored 19 goals while conceded only 5. There is no question that the team have delivered constantly good results from the end of the September international break. Now a closer look at the key statistics. 

PLAYER STATS

Mr Consistent: 

Here, there is no getting away from Willi Orbán. The defender, who has captained the side from the 5th October in the place of Péter Gulácsi following his serious injury, has been on the pitch for every minute of all 15 games, totalling 1,350 overall minutes.

Most minutes played:

• Willi Orbán: 1,350 from 1,350
• Christopher Nkunku: 1,282 from 1,350
• David Raum: 1,034 from 1,350
   

Top goalscorer:

Christopher Nkunku has not only scored the most goals for RBL, but is also the top-scorer in the whole of the Bundesliga.


Most goals:

• Christopher Nkunku: 12
• Timo Werner: 4
• Willi Orban: 3
  
   

Top assist-provider:

Dominik Szoboszlai has got a good seven assists, the most for a RBL player, and second best league wide.

Most assists:

• Dominik Szoboszlai: 7
• Emil Forsberg: 2
• Dani Olmo: 2

Most goal contributions:

• Christopher Nkunku: 13 (12 goals + 1 assist)
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 8 (1 goal + 7 assists)
• Timo Werner: 5 (4 goals + 1 assist)
• Dani Olmo: 2 (2 assists)
  
   

Most shots:

• Christopher Nkunku: 44
• André Silva: 28
• Timo Werner: 26
  
   

Most fouled:

• Christopher Nkunku: 25
• André Silva: 20
• Dani Olmo: 19
   

Most shots against post and bar:

• Christopher Nkunku: 2
• André Silva: 2
• Timo Werner: 2
  
   

Most successful passes from open play (%):

• Willi Orbán: 91.67%
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 85.91%
• Christopher Nkunku: 84.34%
  
   

Most touches:

• Willi Orbán: 1,315
•  Joško Gvardiol: 789
• Benjamin Henrichs: 781
  
   

Top speed (km/h):

• Timo Werner: 35.47 km/h
• Hugo Novoa: 35.36 km/h
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 35.21 km/h
  
   

Distance covered (km):

• Willi Orbán: 148.8 km
• Christopher Nkunku: 142.9 km
• David Raum: 129.6 km
  
   

Most sprints:

• Christopher Nkunku: 392
• David Raum: 367
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 312
   

Most yellow cards:

• Benjamin Henrichs: 5
• Kevin Kampl: 4
• Abdou Diallo, Emil Forsberg, Amadou Haidara, Konrad Laimer and David Raum: 2

Dominik Szoboszlai has picked up the only red card.
 

Most duels won:

• Willi Orbán: 169
• Benjamin Henrichs: 132
• Christopher Nkunku: 117

 
The player with the highest percentage of duels won is Joško Gvardiol with 66,39% of duels won, ahead of Diallo (64.56%) and Orban (61.62%).


 

Aerial duels won:

• Willi Orbán: 60
• Mohamed Simakan: 17
• Benjamin Henrichs and Joško Gvardiol: 16
  
   

Most crosses from open play:

• David Raum: 41
• Benjamin Henrichs: 16
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 14
  
   

Most substitute appearances:

• Amadou Haidara: 9
• André Silva, Kevin Kampl, Emil Forsberg and Yussuf Poulsen: 6
• Joško Gvardiol, Marcel Halstenberg and Hugo Novoa: 5
   

TEAM STATS

Goals:

• FC Bayern München: 49
• Eintracht Frankfurt: 32
• RB Leipzig: 30
  
   

Shots:

• FC Bayern München: 316
• RB Leipzig: 221
• Borussia Dortmund: 217
  
   

Shots against post and bar

• RB Leipzig: 9
• FC Bayern München: 8
• Eintracht Frankfurt: 7
  
   

Possession (%)

• FC Bayern München: 62%
• RB Leipzig: 56%
• Borussia Dortmund: 55%
  
   

Successful passes from open play (%)

• FC Bayern München: 88.5%
• RB Leipzig: 85.9%
• Borussia Dortmund: 84.8%
   

Duels won

In duels won, there is still potential to improve in the second half of the season. RBL have won 1,473, which is the ninth highest in the league. The team has won around a half of all duels (50.94%), the fifth best in the Bundesliga.
 

Running stats

There is also room to improve in terms of total distance covered (1680.4 km in 15th place), sprints (3315, 12th place) and intensive runs (9787, 16th place).
 

Unbeaten run

RBL are currently eight Bundesliga games unbeaten. At the same time, the team is on a run of four straight wins, the longest streak this season. RBL’s last defeat was on the 17th September (3-0 against Borussia Mönchengladbach). This time also includes the team’s highest win: A 4-0 win against Bochum on 1st October.