Steve Froggatt has spoken highly of Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Ruben Neves.
Wolverhampton Wanderers registered a 2-0 win against Steve Bruce’s in-form Aston Villa side and moved two points clear of Cardiff City at the top of the Championship table.
Diogo Jota opened the scoring in the 55th minute with a ferocious effort from 15 yards. Leo Bonatini scored in the 71stminute, after great work from Jota, to make it 2-0.
Former Wolves player, Steve Froggatt, who played for the club between 1994-98, and made 98 league appearances, has taken to social networking site Twitter to express his reaction about the game.
He notes that Wolves were “outstanding” against Villa, and he was particularly impressed with summer signing Ruben Neves.
Neves made 67 passes in that match with 89.6% accuracy. He had attempted 17 long balls during the game, of which 13 were accurate passes.
The Portuguese midfielder has scored one goal so far in 12 Championship games. He has made an average of 56.4% passes, with 84.9% passing accuracy. He has made 6.8 long balls on an average per game, according to whoscored.com.
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