CHELSEA star Alvaro Morata has made quite an impact since his £65million move from Real Madrid in the summer.
The Spanish star, 25, was tasked with leading the Blues’ line after Diego Costa was frozen out by Antonio Conte.
It didn’t take long for Morata to find his feet in England either, having scored nine times and added four assists already this season.
As well as sitting joint-third, behind Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane, in the goal-scoring charts – Morata does top one goals list.
In fact, the Spaniard has scored more than twice as many headed goals than any other Premier League star, according to data from EA Sports.
With five goals from his head, Morata is three ahead of Manchester City star Sergio Aguero and Arsenal ace Alexandre Lacazette – both on two headed goals.
For comparison, Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku has scored just once using their head.
Thanks to Morata’s heroics, Chelsea are also the team leaders for goals off their noggin, with nine in total.
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Those nine headers account for an astonishing 32 per cent of all of the Blues’ goals this term – showing they love to exert their dominance in the air.
Arsenal meanwhile come in at No2, with seven headed efforts in 2017-18 so far – a strong 24 per cent of all goals.
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Manchester United have scored six times – for 17 per cent of their goals – with their head.
Meanwhile Liverpool (15 per cent) and Man City (11 per cent) both have five headed goals in the 2017-18 season thus far.
Data Courtesy of EA SPORTS, the Lead Partner of the Premier League.
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