24 more games for 9 more goals isn't massive, it says, they both suck.
Disagree, Sotirio is 3 times more effective than Appiah, a goal every seven games cf a goal every 21 games.
Agree with Barrie, the average per game is in favour of Sotirio (0.14 goals per game for Sotirio vs 0.05 goals per game for Appiah).
It would be great to see a distribution table or graph as to when the goals where scored (years ago, or recently), if there were peaks or troughs. If one of them scored mostly in a debut year while the other in their most recent season that would be also more predictive if they are rising or waning.
| Season | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 |
| Sotirio | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Appiah | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sotirio has been very consistent in terms of goal scoring a season, though his playing minutes fluctuates significantly. In 17/18 those three goals were scored in only 409 minutes, his 4 goals for the Nix in 19/20 he played 1344 minutes. That probably shows he's most effective and actually a pretty good option, coming on late off the bench against tired defenses. The issue that Ufuk appears to be grappling with is that the Nix are basically devoid of pace apart from Sotorio, so if he wants to play a little deeper against counter-attacking teams and have someone run into the additional space in the attacking third there aren't any other options. Without pace (which every other team seems to have plenty of) the Nix seem a little one-dimensional.
If you throw in Sotirio's assists and his ability to hare up and down the wing to cover he's a perfectly fine A league squad player. He does play bad passes and make bad calls, but that's why he's an a-league player.
For us he's been involved in 6 goals. For comparison Ball has been part of 11 and Davila 18. Which seems about right.
Will be interested to see how the Lewis McGarry combination goes. Lewis was highly promising in his first game, a very handy creative force , but didn't have much impact as a sub.