Charlie Austin - MVP

Forget Alexis Sanchez and Sergio Aguero - QPR striker Charlie Austin is most valuable player in Premier League

While Sergio Aguero and Alexs Sanchez have scored the most, neither can account for a higher percentage of their club's points this season than Charlie Austin

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By Jason Burt10:47AM GMT 05 Dec 2014

Who is the most valuable player in the Premier League in terms of directly winning the greatest ratio of points for his team?
The answer, according to analysis supplied by Opta Sports, is not Sergio Aguero. Neither is it Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez. In fact it is the Queens Park Rangers striker Charlie Austin.

All three forwards can claim to have personally accounted for seven points for their clubs this campaign so far - with a fourth player, Tottenham Hotspur 's Christian Eriksen, also having achieved that total. Leicester City's Leonardo Ulloa is next in the league with a total of six points.
While Aguero has scored by far the most league goals of the quartet, with 14 for Manchester City, and while Sanchez is the next highest with nine goals, neither they, nor Eriksen, the most 'efficient' goal-scorer with five goals and the only one who is not a striker, can actually account for a higher percentage of their club's points this season as Austin, who has scored seven times.
Given that QPR have only 11 points then Austin has earned seven of those - or an incredible 63 per cent of their total. City have 30 points so Aguero has accounted for 23 per cent and Arsenal have 23 points so Sanchez can claim 30 per cent. For Spurs, Eriksen's goals have earned 35 per cent of their 20-point haul.

Austin's goals came against Sunderland, in a 1-0 win, turning one point for a draw into three, against Aston Villa when he scored twice in a 2-0 victory to again convert one point into three, against Leicester City when he scored the winner in a 3-2 triumph and against City when he scored in a 2-2 draw to help earn a point.
Of Austin's seven goals it means only two turned out to be 'meaningless' as he scored in the 2-1 defeats away to Southampton and Chelsea although, in fairness, neither was a consolation strike as in both cases they drew QPR level and almost, again, led to points being earned.
Austin could have been out on his own with eight points had he not missed a penalty in QPR's opening game of the season, which they lost 1-0 at home to Hull City.
Nevertheless, it is still a phenomenally valuable contribution from Austin who has played 13 league matches for those seven goals which means that he has also maintained - or at present is actually bettering - an average of a goal every two games.
The 25-year-old has stayed close to that average, usually above it, at every level of the professional game he has played since he moved from non-league Poole Town just five years ago.
Austin has moved through the divisions from League Two to League One and from the Championship into the Premier League. It means his career average for league goals stands at 0.53 goals per game and has not dropped.
Unsurprisingly, it means that Austin has come to the attention of England manager Roy Hodgson who watched him in the recent draw at home to City and considered him for the recent Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia and the friendly against Scotland.
While Hodgson is famously unmoved by goals-per-games ratios - he has often dismissed such statistics, questioning the value of scoring "the fourth goal in a 4-0 win" - he is aware that Austin's strikes are often decisive, even if the fact that QPR do not actually score that many goals is also a factor in highlighting his importance.
Austin is facing competition if he is to earn a first call-up when the next England squad is announced in March from West Bromwich Albion's Saido Berahino, who made the last squad, Spurs' Harry Kane and possibly also another England under-21 international, Danny Ings, who he will face on Saturday when QPR host his former club Burnley at Loftus Road.


PLAYER - - - GOALS - POINTS WON

Sergio Aguero 14 - 7

Alexis Sanchez 9 - 7

Charlie Austin 7 - 7

Christian Eriksen 5 - 7

Leonardo Ulloa 5 - 6

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...s-most-valuable-player-in-Premier-League.html