Salih Özcan Ahead of Kante and Torreira in Tackles and Interceptions

The 28-year-old midfielder Salih Özcan, who parted ways with Borussia Dortmund, joined Beşiktaş on a free transfer. In the Black-and-White side, his defensive performances have made him one of the team's indispensable names. The consistent form he showed over the first 11 weeks of the Süper Lig allowed him to finish ahead of the midfielders he was compared with.

Salih Özcan played a total of 906 minutes across the 11 matches he has appeared in for Beşiktaş so far. With an average of 2.7 tackles per match, he led the comparison, ahead of Trabzonspor's Fabinho with 2.4, Fenerbahçe's N'Golo Kante with 2.2 and Galatasaray's Lucas Torreira with 1.7. The international also took the top spot among the four players in interceptions, averaging 1.5 per match. Torreira and Fabinho each averaged 1, while Kante had 0.9.

Salih Özcan also stood out in ground duels, winning an average of 4.8 per match with a success rate of 62.4 percent. In the same category, Fabinho averaged 3.7, Kante 3.4 and Torreira 2.8. In aerial duels, he averaged 0.8 wins per match and finished ahead of the players he was compared with.