Sunday Supplement: Roberto Firmino’s importance to Liverpool can’t be proved by stats

As his significance is underlined by journalist Natalie Gedra to Liverpool, roberto Firmino’s stats won’t ever paint a story of his skill.
Firmino began on the bench for Liverpool in their win over Newcastle but had been thrust into the activity once Divock Origi suffered a foot injury and the set up Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to Liverpool’s last two purposes.
Despite playing 53 moments, Firmino grabbed the official award.
Even Newcastle boss Steve Bruce conceded Firmino was the difference:”His movement and the way he plays, Liverpool are as great as there is in this position.”
Firmino netted 12 and only recorded six assists while Salah and Mane scored 22 goals apiece last season to some ending in the Premier League in Liverpool conduct.
ESPN Sports Correspondent Gedra, who is Brazilian, thinks analysing his figures are not a manifestation of his integral function for Jurgen Klopp’s side although firmino is once again lagging behind his attack partners.
She stated about Sunday Supplement:”There is a debate in Brazil about if he’s the best player to have played in the Premier League and the counter argument is that he’s never resulted in assists, he has never won the Premier League but that’s the thing about Firmino – it is tough to quantify just how much he can for the group.
“It is not on the stats, you just have to watch and enjoy it. Sometimes I believe he goes under the radar and he’s not valued enough because his stats are not exceptional but he does so much more than that. His aid against Newcastle was just outstanding for the goal of Salah.
“The belief I have about Firmino is his vision of the game just keeps improving and once you think he’s reached the top for the previous couple of seasons, he’s just been brilliant and now he keeps getting better and better. He reads his team’s needs – it is impressive. We keep discussing how unselfish he is, however, his cleverness about the pitch is so crucial with this Liverpool side”
Jason Burt – of the Daily Telegraph – agreed with no Firmino, Liverpool would not operate at the same degree.
“Firmino and Mane are a terrific combination and Firmino is that the oil from the motor for Liverpool,” he explained.
“He gets Mane and Salah better because they’re direct and incredibly intelligent players, but he is the one which gets that subtlety. The press is set by him too – he’s the one which moves closes the opposition down and it’s that work rate. They are becoming better and better.
“What I really like about this Liverpool group and exactly what they did at the summer has enabled the team to create over anything else. They’ve thought’we’ll place our foot to the ball at the transfer market, we do not need to earn loads of fresh players, maybe we will bring in a few second summer, but this year is the one to capitalise on what we did last year and push on with that’.
“They have effectively got new players coming from in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Joe Gomez and those players haven’t peaked yet. This may be the season they peak as a team. You look at these at the moment with five wins from five and people three up front, you would go a ways to beat it.”