The real truth about Harvey Barnes | OneFootball

Harvey Barnes was the match winner on Sunday.

The former Leicester City winger getting a stunning goal.

His trademark move of cutting in from the left and letting fly. The opposition kind of know what he is going to do, but stopping Harvey Barnes, well, that is a bit more difficult.

Despite the Leicester City relegation at the end of the 2022/23 season, Harvey Barnes still scored 13 Premier League goals from his wing position and was top scorer for the club, 13 goals from 32 PL starts mighty impressive when you consider how poor Leicester were overall.

This is the real truth about Harvey Barnes laid out below.

His Premier League record these last five and a bit years.

From the start of the 2019/20 Premier League season onwards.

My only surprise is how surprised so many Newcastle United fans are, at just how good and productive Harvey Barnes is!

2019/20 Premier League (Leicester City)

14 Direct Goal involvements (6 goals and 8 assists) – 2,094 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 149 minutes

2020/21 Premier League (Leicester City)

13 Direct Goal involvements (9 goals and 4 assists) – 1,950 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 150 minutes

2021/22 Premier League (Leicester City)

16 Direct Goal involvements (6 goals and 10 assists) – 2,107 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 131 minutes

2022/23 Premier League (Leicester City)

14 Direct Goal involvements (13 goals and 1 assist) – 2,720 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 194 minutes

(In the four seasons at Leicester, before signing for Newcastle United, Harvey Barnes has had 57 direct goal involvements in the Premier League, scoring 34 and getting 23 assists.To give that some kind of context, in the same four seasons, Allan Saint-Maximin had 28 direct PL goal involvements – scoring 12 and assisting another 16. Basically, Barnes with more than twice as many direct goal involvements than ASM across those four seasons)

2023/24 Premier League (Newcastle United)

8 Direct Goal involvements (5 goals and 3 assists) – 795 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 99 minutes

2024/25 Premier League (Newcastle United)

3 Direct Goal involvements (2 goals and 1 assist) – 158 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 52 minutes

Total Harvey Barnes Direct Goal involvements these past five and a bit seasons (for Leicester and Newcastle):

68 Direct Goal involvements 41 goals and 27 assists) – 9,824 PL minutes played

A Harvey Barnes direct goal involvement once every 144 Premier League minutes, from the start of the 2019/20 PL season onwards.

What we are talking about is very close to in that time, averaging two direct goal involvements every three Premier League matches.

I can’t wait to see what Harvey Barnes can prove capable of the rest of this season and beyond.