Luton Town’s Zimbabwean midfielder Marvelous Nakamba sits on top of the English Premier League (EPL) chart for the most tackles made, earning glowing praise from his manager Rob Edwards.
Nakamba produced another scintillating performance as his Luton side powered past Everton 2-1 away at Goodison Park last Saturday.
Initialling joining Luton from Aston Villa on loan in January, the Hatters signed the Zimbabwean on a permanent basis on July 20 after his performances helped them secure promotion to the Premier League.
Performances in the 2-1 defeat to West Ham United have been followed up with fine displays against Fulham and Wolves.
“It was at Goodison Park that he really shone once more though, particularly in the second half as the Hatters dug in to keep their hosts at bay and hold on to their 2-1 victory,” Luton Today reported.
“Making six tackles with two interceptions, while also having the visitors’ best passing accuracy of just under 75 percent, it means that Nakamba is now up to 26 tackles this term, the highest in the entire Premier League,” the website said.
It puts him above Spurs’ Yves Bissouma and West Ham’s Lucas Paquetá, with team-mate Amari’i Bell in fourth place as well.
His manager Edwards said: “It shows that maybe we haven’t got the ball as much as others that we have to make more tackles as well, we’re going to need him to keep doing that!
“He was excellent, I love that saying, 70 percent of the world is covered by water, the other 30 percent by Marvelous Nakamba, I love that.
“I saw that again the other day, I was laughing to myself, as he’s brilliant.
“He’s some man, he just goes about his business in a real humble way.
“His performance was top the other day, really, really influential.
“He does the stuff that people won’t always see, and doesn’t want all the praise for it either, he just gets on and is a real top player, a top, top guy.”
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Kkkkkk we need points, not tackles in europe. The team is lying on the bottom of the table but busy applauding tackles, nonsense
Isrial Fainos Maburo individual effort won’t go unrecognized. It’s good for the player. That how players are bought from one club to another.
Raphael Justin no we need results bro not selfishness
Isrial Fainos Maburo go play and get results.
Dacor Dhliz is that soccer language or boozers
Dacor Dhliz 😂😂
Bora remujobwe raanotamba uyu
Yaa ibhora remidzi bhora rake
Tapera Penduka ko mri kudii kunocherawo yenyu midzi mtambewo sezvaanoita
Tapera Penduka kkkk miteuro yaprophet chiza kkkk
Very good defensively Nakamba but needs to improve his game going forward and attacking.
Raymond Dube he is not an attacking midfielder. He does what his coach tells him to do and his coach is very happy
Dumi Ndlovu even if you are not an attacking midfielder, nothing wrong with evolving and improving areas in your game . He gets into good areas to shoot or make runs with the ball.The game is dynamic and players and positions evolve.Other defensive midfielders in the EPL score goals .
Raymond Dube His coach is happy with his performance. He is rated best defensive lineman in the EPL statistically at the moment.
Dumi Ndlovu his coach will be much happier if he scores or makes an assist. We want him to stay in the Premier League with Luton or any other team as he is representing all Zimbabweans and is an inspiration to all upcoming stars.
Raymond Dube what you are saying makes sense BabuMthembu but doing what you are suggesting would mean going against what the coach employed him to do. Discipline is following instructions.
No this is called positional discipline you play according to the instruction, this is professional football by experts
Swoswe Brian exactly
Dumi Ndlovu hahaha 😂🤣 the truth is he lacks the guts to do some other stuff other than marking
Prestige!!🥰
What a lucky man.
Shower of shit to a man …club , board, owners, players and the fans are all C****
Mabhora ekuma 90’s mazuva ana Konjera
Great player
He will have to do it all season !
A Good Player
What a lovely midfielder we have got.
Dai muchinda aigohwesa uyuka taiona nhamo nemedia zvno anongorumbidzihwa hake chero asingagon bhora racho kkkk
Jah bless
That’s Marvellous 😁