Xavi Hernández, the man of a thousand passes
Barça’s midfield maestro is the most successful passer of the top five European leagues so far this season and the only player to have completed 1,000 successful passes Busquets has made the sixth most passes and Fabregas the eighth
Xavi is the leading pass maker in Europe’s top five leagues so far this season, having completed more than a thousand, with an astonishing 95.45% success rate.
Arteta second
Arsenal’s Basque midfielder Mikel Arteta is second in the list, with 994 successful passes so far, followed by Manchester United’s Michael Carrick (936). Manchester City’s ex-Barça man Yaya Touré is fourth (934) and Busquets (841) and Cesc (796) are sixth and eighth respectively.
Xavi is way out front in terms of success rate, with Mikel Arteta (93,26% successful), Dante (92,44%), Liverpool’s Joe Allen (91,36%) and Sergio Busquets (91,32%) well behind him.
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