EPL: Aribo gets higher ranking ahead of Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd stars
Super Eagles midfielder Joe Ayodele Aribo has been rated one of the most aggressive players in the English Premier League, five months into the 2022/2023 season.
Joe Aribo fulfilled a childhood dream of playing in the Premier League when he signed for Southampton from Glasgow Rangers in a deal worth over seven million euros. That transfer deal for Aribo is one of the most expensive involving Nigerian players in the year 2022.
Aribo has featured in all of Southampton’s fifteen Premier League matches, with ten appearances in the starting eleven. In 948 minutes of action, the 26-year-old star has managed two league goals and received one yellow card.
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Aribo’s creativity, physicality, and aggressiveness have added more stability and bite to the Southampton attack.
Interestingly, it has emerged that Aribo is one of the most aggressive players in the English top flight when his team is out of possession.
According to renowned statistics company, Squawka, Joe Aribo ranks in an impressive fourth position on the chart of Premier League players with the most possession won in the final third.