For this weeks Team of the Week we will take a look at last weekends’ round of the Dutch Eredivisie. The team this week consists of the most successful duelists on the ground according to both our offensive and defensive statistics. With fast wits and even faster feet, the following players won the most ground duels last weekend:

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– This week the squad who provided the most players to the team is ADO Den Haag; providing three duelists to the team.

– The best scoring player this week is Milan van Ewijk who won 14 ground duels this week. More impressively he did this with a win-rate of 88%. He also won the most duels when compared to the most successful duelists of the Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 last week.

– Two players on the team won a 100% of the ground duels they engaged in: the goalkeeper: Nick Marsman and the left center back: Wessel Dammers. Dammers is the player with the highest amount of ground duels won while maintaining a 100% win-rate.

– We can also look at defensive duels won. In this case Kik Pierie would come out on top with 11 defensive duels won. Pierie is closely followed bij the teams van Ewijk who won 10 defensive duels.

– Another statistic we can focus on is attacking duels won. The highest scorer in that regard is the teams left winger, Evangelos Pavlidis with 9 duels won on the offensive.

When we look at the whole season, the following players lead the way in the Eredivisie for ground duels won: