Players - David N'Gog

David N'Gog
Birthdate: 1 April 1989
Birthplace: Gennevilliers, France
Other clubs: Paris St Germain (2001-08), Bolton Wanderers (2011-14), Swansea City (2014), Reims (2014-16), Panionios (2016-17), Ross County (2018), Honved (2018-20), FK Žalgiris (2020)
Signed from: Paris St Germain
Signed for LFC: £1.5m, 24.07.2008
International caps: u-21 17/3 caps/goals
Liverpool debut: 31.08.2008
Last appearance: 22.05.2011
Debut goal: 09.12.2008
Last goal: 06.12.2010
Contract expiry: 31.08.2011
Win ratio: 48.94% W:46 D:22 L:26
Games/goals ratio: 4.95
Total games/goals opposite LFC: 2 / 0
League games / goals / assists: 63 / 9 / 1
Total games / goals / assists: 94 / 19 / 1

Player Profile

N'Gog was snapped up by Benítez for a relatively cheap fee from Paris St Germain where he made 24 appearances and scored three goals. Although he wasn't often on the scoresheet it could be attributed to that he played on the wing or came on as a substitute. N'Gog made five starts in his debut season at Liverpool and appeared 14 times as a substitute, earning more chances than might have been expected. N'Gog scored three times, his debut goal coming against PSV in the Champions League and adding two goals in the Premier League against Sunderland and Blackburn. N'Gog was often given the unenviable and pretty much impossible task of replacing Fernando Torres when the Spaniard was unavailable in the 2009/10 season. Despite his limitations, N'Gog found the net eight times during a difficult season for the club; five in the Premier League, the winner in the League Cup at Leeds plus two in Europe against Debrecen and Lille. He was also involved in one of the season's most controversial incidents when, according to Birmingham's Lee Carsley amongst others, he dived to win a penalty in the Anfield League game. This assured him of a very hot welcome in the return match at St. Andrews four months later when he came on as a second-half substitute for Torres.

The young Frenchman celebrated his twenty-second birthday shortly before the end of the 2010/11 season, in which he made no less than 38 first-team matches, twenty from the start and eighteen as a substitute. But N'Gog only started two matches after Kenny Dalglish took over from Roy Hodgson, both Europa League matches against Sparta Prague. Five of N'Gog's eight goals that campaign came in Europe. On the final day of the 2011 summer transfer-window, six games short of a century for Liverpool, N'Gog moved to Bolton Wanderers for £4 million, signing a three-year deal at the Reebok. N'Gog appeared in 33 Premier League matches and six domestic cup-ties, but Bolton were relegated at the end of the 2011/12 season in which the striker scored only four times.

2012/13 was N'Gog's most productive season yet in English football. He played in thirty-one of Bolton's forty-six matches in The Championship and scored eight goals. Wanderers just missed out on a play-off position. Failing to win their final match against Blackpool cost them a place in the top six. Towards the end of the January 2014 transfer-window N'Gog moved back to the Premier League with Swansea City in a deal that would last until the end of the 2013/14 season, the point at which his Bolton contract was due to expire. He made just three Premier League appearances for Swansea before the end of the season, all as a substitute. N'Gog signed a two-year deal with French league 1 club, Reims, on 1 September 2014 and scored seven goals in 27 appearances in his first season, then three from sixteen in his second. After his contract expired in the summer of 2016 he joined Greek side Panionios where eleven of his thirteen league appearances were as a substitute. He left as a free agent in the summer of 2017 but a cruciate ligament injury meant he didn't find a new club until January 2018, when he joined former manager Owen Coyle at Ross County in Scotland. After one goal in ten games as County were relegated, N'Gog was again a free agent and signed for Hungarian side Honved. Although not a first choice starter (15 of his 31 appearances were from the bench) he ended the season with a respectable return of twelve goals in all competitions. N'Gog joined FC Žalgiris in Lithuania in February 2020, making just two appearances there before retiring in the summer.
Appearances per season
Season League FA LC Europe Other Total
Totals 63 3 5 23 0 94
2008-2009 14 0 2 3 0 19
2009-2010 24 2 2 9 0 37
2010-2011 25 1 1 11 0 38
2011-2012 0 0 0 0 0 0
A more detailed look at the player's appearances
Apps Minutes Opponent
5 251 Arsenal
5 201 Tottenham
5 138 Sunderland
5 133 Blackburn Rovers
4 219 West Ham United
4 207 Bolton Wanderers
4 182 Aston Villa
4 26 Chelsea
3 180 Manchester City
3 157 Everton
3 117 Stoke City
3 116 Birmingham City
3 94 Newcastle United
3 51 Manchester United
2 180 Rabotnicki
2 179 Unirea Urziceni
2 173 Sparta Prague
2 172 Napoli
2 158 Reading
2 105 Steaua Bucharest
2 102 Trabzonspor
2 100 Wigan Athletic
2 93 Lyon
2 85 Blackpool
2 85 Wolves
2 83 Atletico Madrid
2 65 Portsmouth
2 12 Benfica
1 120 Northampton Town
1 90 PSV Eindhoven
1 79 Fulham
1 79 Leeds United
1 77 Debrecen VSC
1 66 Crewe
1 27 Hull City
1 22 Middlesbrough
1 17 WBA
1 15 Braga
1 14 Burnley
1 0 Lille
Total Started/substitutions
41 Started
37 On the bench
53 Substitute
26 Substituted
Total Venue
51 Home
43 Away
Total Competition
63 Premier League
17 Europa League
6 Champions League
5 League Cup
3 FA Cup
Total W D L Win % Manager
56 30 15 11 53.6% Rafa Benítez
26 12 4 10 46.2% Roy Hodgson
12 4 3 5 33.3% Kenny Dalglish
Goals per season
Season League FA LC Europe Other Total
Totals 9 0 2 8 0 19
2008-2009 2 0 0 1 0 3
2009-2010 5 0 1 2 0 8
2010-2011 2 0 1 5 0 8
2011-2012 0 0 0 0 0 0
A more detailed look at the player's goalscoring
Assists per season
Season League FA LC Europe Other Total
Totals 1 0 0 0 0 1
2008-2009 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-2010 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010-2011 1 0 0 0 0 1
2011-2012 0 0 0 0 0 0
A more detailed look at the player's assists
Total Opponent
1 Aston Villa
Total Competition
1 Premier League
Total For player
1 Maxi Rodriguez
Milestone Appearances
# Date Against Stadium Competition
1 31.08.2008 Aston Villa Villa Park League
50 04.04.2010 Birmingham City St Andrews League
Milestone Goals
# Minute Date Against Stadium Competition
1 77 09.12.2008 PSV Eindhoven Philips Stadion Europe
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Other Clubs
Club Season Club rank League apps League goals Total apps Total goals
Paris St Germain 2006-2007 France 1 4 0 6 0
Paris St Germain 2007-2008 France 1 14 1 19 3
Bolton Wanderers 2011-2012 England Premier League 33 3 39 4
Bolton Wanderers 2012-2013 England Championship 31 8 33 8
Bolton Wanderers 2013-2014 England Championship 17 3 19 4
Swansea City 2013-2014 England Premier League 3 0 3 0
Stade Reims 2014-2015 France 1 28 7 30 7
Stade Reims 2015-2016 France 1 16 3 18 3
Panionios 2016-2017 Greece 1 13 1 16 3
Ross County 2017-2018 Scotland 1 10 1 10 1
Honved 2018-2019 Hungary 1 23 3 31 9
Honved 2019-2020 Hungary 1 5 2 10 3
Zalgiris 2019-2020 Lithuania 1 2 1 3 1
Total 199 33 237 46