Tino Livramento locks up Mohamed Salah
And a couple of James Maddison records, on Monday Night SCOUTED
This week’s Monday Night SCOUTED is a number-heavy rundown ahead of the international break. Essentially, this is a SCOUTED Stats one-two.
First, we will run through this weekend’s standout displays and see if we have any new single-game records.
After that, we are going to check-in with the 2024/25 totals and find out whether we are on the verge of crowning any seasonal SCOUTED Stat champions.
- Welcome to the Tino Livramento penitentiary
- Doku Dilemma déjà vu in SCOUTED Stats
- Can anyone beat these Andy Cole, Mesut Özil and James Maddison records?
SCOUTED Stats
Before we take a look at Europe's Big Five Leagues, I wanted to start with Tino Livramento. Not only did he win every single duel he contested in the EFL Cup Final, he reduced Mohamed Salah to 0 shots attempted and 0 key passes. This was the first time in Salah’s 392 appearances for Liverpool that he had played an entire match and finished it with a blank for both metrics. It was the 13th time Salah has made an appearance for the club and failed to register a shot and only the fifth time he has played 90 minutes and not let fly.
Stathead only covers Key Passes for the Premier League and UEFA Champions League - I did some manual checking to confirm the first stat - but, for context, Salah has only failed to blank for both metrics in four out of 361 Liverpool matches across those two competitions. The only one he played 30+ minutes in was the recent away win against PSG. In March 2025, two 2002-born full-backs proved that Salah is not invincible. Give Nuno Mendes and Tino Livramento their flowers.
👶 Big Five Babies
The youngest player to make an appearance across this weekend was Darryl Bakola. At 17 years and 106 days old, Marseille’s 2007-born midfielder got a couple of minutes against PSG in Le Classique. The youngest player to start was Mohamed Meité, mentioned in last week’s newsletter. What I found absolutely mental was that Lamine Yamal, at 17 years and 246 days old, was the fourth-youngest player, the second-youngest starter and the youngest goalscorer across Europe’s Big Five Leagues this weekend. Never lose perspective.
🫃 Expected Stats
Three players generated 1+ NPxG this weekend: Nuno Mendes (is there anything he can’t do?), Maximilian Beier and Santiago Castro, the youngest of this trio. I think you should join me in tracking Bologna’s giant-killing Argentinian. After his goal in the 5-0 win against Lazio, the 2004-born centre-forward now has eight goals and four assists in 2,129 Serie A minutes this season.
Diego Moreira was the only player to generate 1+ Expected Assists (1.2) and came close to the single game record of 1.4, jointly-held by Maghnes Akliouche and Michael Olise. Meanwhile, Hugo Ekitiké racked up the highest NPxG + Expected Assisted Goals (1.4).
☄️ Shots
Five players attempted five shots this weekend, only half-way to Jamal Musiala’s record: Nico Paz, Jamie Gittens, Max Beier, Alberto Moleiro and Tom Louchet. None of them won their respective match.
Four players registered three shots on target, half-way to Jamal Musiala’s record: Nico Paz, Alberto Moleiro, Tom Louchet and Alejandro Garnacho. Only Garnacho walked away with three points. Is shooting bad? (To confirm, this is a joke).
