Stunning international stat for Sandro Tonali – World Cup qualifying | OneFootball

Sandro Tonali has been in such impressive form for Newcastle United and Italy this past year or more.

His lengthy ban ending in late August 2024.

Sandro Tonali clearly desperate to make up for lost time.

These 14 months seeing such consistent levels of performance from the midfielder for club and country.

Much debate as to whether indeed Sandro Tonali is Italy’s best player now, the same when it comes to ranking him alongside his Newcastle United teammates.

When you have such a versatile player who can perform many roles in the midfield, a nice dilemma on how to best use him.

Fair to say that Italy use Sandro Tonali in a more offensive capacity, encouraged to get forward and help as much as possible on the creativity and attacking threat. Whilst Eddie Howe has Sandro primarily protecting the defence, with license to get forward when appropriate.

Some new updated stats on the Sandro Tonali performances in World Cup qualifying matches for Italy, have now given some food for thought, as it shows just how devastating he can be when allowed to get forward as much as possible.

The Squawka site publishing an updated list showing the players with highest number of chances created in World Cup qualifiers (in European qualification for the 2026 finals)  – 15 October 2025:

23 Sandro Tonali (Italy)

23 Sorba Thomas (Wales)

21 Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium)

21 Vaclav Cerny (Czech Republic)

19 Memphis Depay (Netherlands)

18 Ivan Perisic (Croatia)

18 Manor Solomon (Israel)

18 Gvidis  Gineitis (Lithuania)

17 Michael Olise (France)

Martin Odegaard the driving creative force for Norway (and Arsenal), just ahead of Sandro Tonali for Italy…