Who would you say West Ham's most valuable player is this season? Declan Rice perhaps in terms of value to the team, maybe even Lukasz Fabianski as he has been very sorely missed since his injury in September.
But it is in fact neither of those two judging by the statistics complied for the CIES Football Observatory and leading sports company OptaPro and who appears the most in the six categories might surprise you it.
It's....Andriy Yarmolenko.
The £17.5m signing from Borussia Dortmund last season missed pretty much all of the 2018/19 campaign after tearing his achilles and returned to action at the start of the 2019/20 season.
The Ukrianiain international has gone on to make 15 appearances so far this season, scoring three times in four games between August and mis-September but has gone off the boil in recent weeks.
He's also lost his starting spot in the team to Pablo Fornals, coming off the bench in three of the past four games and wasn't in the squad for the 3-1 reverse against Arsenal.
However, the 30-year-old winger tops the charts for the Hammers in three of the six categories that were measured by CIES and OptaPro
He is the overall MVP, also leads the way in chance creation and also in shooting accuracy percentages when all the stats have been measured as to who has the most influence on their team.
Manuel Lanzini, who has been injured for a month, still leads the standings for the Hammers in distribution and in take on success rate.
Declan Rice is West Ham's best recovery man which isn't much of a surprise, while Fabian Balbuena for the "rigour" section which effectively measure aggressiveness.
