Saido Berahino v Lee Gregory at Sheffield Wednesday: Who has the better stats?

Sheffield Wednesday’s play-off push continued on Saturday when they defeated Cheltenham Town 4-1 at Hillsborough. 

The emphatic victory sees the Owls sitting sixth in the League One table, level on points with Oxford United in fifth, and two points clear of Sunderland in seventh.

One thing that has contributed to their success this season has been the play and goals of two of their strikers, Saido Berahino and Lee Gregory.

With both strikers having joined the club last summer, we thought we’d take a look at how their stats compare to each other so far this season, according to WyScout.

Firstly, and most importantly for a striker, let’s take a look at their goal tallies.

Berahino has 6 goals in 23 appearances, whilst Gregory has nine goals in 29 appearances.

Countering the problem of them having played a different number of matches, we can use their per 90 minutes goal figures to see who has been scoring at a higher rate.

It’s Berahino who comes out on top in this, with 0.48 goals per 90 compared to Gregory’s 0.35 per 90.

Berahino also does this by over-performing his xG, which sits at 0.35 xG per 90, whilst Gregory also over-performs his, just, with it sitting at 0.33 xG per 90.

Gregory, though, has six assists to Berahino’s four, which even when averaged out per 90, slightly goes in Gregory’s favour.

Gregory averages 0.19 assists per 90, whilst Berahino manages slightly less at 0.16 assists per 90.

In terms of offensive duels, Gregory is also the clear winner.

Gregory has 11.76 offensive duels per 90 so far this season, winning 25.2% of these on average.

Berahino on the other hand, has 10.96 offensive duels per 90, a similar number to Gregory, but only wins 13.8% of these – a fairly big difference.

Elsewhere, they both