Evidence suggest Barcelona playmaker will improve on his numbers from last season | OneFootball

If Ange Postecoglou always wins trophies in his second season is a thing in football, Dani Olmo always performing in his second season might also be a thing.

That is because stats clearly suggest that the Spanish international becomes a superior player whenever he is playing a second season for a club.

Wherever Olmo has played, the playmaker has performed in his second season. This is applicable for his stints at Dinamo Zagreb and RB Leipzig.

Olmo’s second season at Dinamo and Leipzig

Olmo joined Dinamo Zagreb in 2014. But it wasn’t until the 2017/18 season that he became a fully-fledged member of the first team and was no longer considered a youth prospect.

In that ‘debut’ season as a professional, Olmo racked up nine goals in all competitions. But in the following campaign, the Spaniard racked up 12 goals in all competitions while also mustering nine assists.

Moving on to RB Leipzig, Olmo joined the German club in January 2020. During his first, or rather, half a season, the playmaker racked up five goals and an assist in all competitions.

Olmo must step up in his second season at Barcelona. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images)

In his second season, however, Olmo lit up the Bundesliga and became one of Leipzig’s important players, racking up seven goals and 12 assists.

From then on, Olmo established himself as one of the Bundesliga’s most talented playmakers, notably scoring 29 goals and mustering 34 assists for Leipzig before joining Barcelona last summer.

In his first season at Barça, Olmo did not disappoint at all, scoring 12 goals and providing seven assists. His ten goals in La Liga, in fact, marked the first time Olmo had ever reached double-digit scoring figures in a league in his career.

But as Olmo gears up for his second season at Barça, data suggests he could easily improve on these figures and become an even more important player for Hansi Flick.

The Spaniard, though, has had a relatively slow start to the season so far, having failed to register a single goal or assist in three games. He will look to change that as Barcelona take on Valencia this weekend, with the playmaker poised for a start.