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da prosport bet： Fernando Llorente was allowed to leave Tottenham Hotspur in the summer and has since joined Napoli in Serie A.

On the chalkboard

Since his departure, Spurs have been in downright terrible form.

They haven’t won in the Premier League since September and they look particularly thin up front, with Harry Kane their only out-and-out striker that isn’t the 17-year-old Troy Parrott.

Has Llorente been missed, then? One only has to look at his stats from his time in Italy to find out.

He has thus far made 10 Serie A appearances, with eight coming as a substitute, and he has scored two goals and registered one assist. Both goals came in a 4-1 thumping of Lecce in September, while the assist came against Sampdoria.

Per WhoScored, he has averaged 1.9 shots per game, 0.4 key passes, 0.1 dribbles, 0.4 dispossessions and 0.8 unsuccessful touches. He averages 9.7 passes per game, with an 81.4% accuracy, while he has yet to be recorded making a tackle.

Those stats shouldn’t be too surprising, given that they are markedly similar to last season at Spurs.

In the Premier League, he had six starts and 14 substitute appearances, scoring once and providing four assists. He averaged 1.2 shots per game, 0.7 key passes, 0.3 dribbles, 0.6 dribbles, 1.4 unsuccessful touches. He also averaged 11.2 passes with an accuracy of 66.4% and 0.2 tackles.

A burden in most cases

Llorente isn’t really missed.

Of course, he came off the bench to influence a number of matches last season and he scored the winner in that Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City while registering the assist for Lucas Moura’s hat-trick goal against Ajax.

But in the league, he rarely had much of an impact and that is being replicated in Italy.

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Napoli, of course, already have Dries Mertens up front – he has seven goals in all competitions to his name – and Llorente was never likely to be anything more than a back-up.

But his statistics show that he is rarely involved and when he has the ball, he doesn’t do an awful lot with it.

Spurs’ decision to move him on looks all the wiser with every passing game – while he could have been the Plan ‘B’, apart from the occasional goal he clearly can’t be relied on to change games.

His stats, if nothing else, show that those performances against City and Ajax were the exceptions rather than the rule.