Here are the actual stats:
https://fbref.com/en/players/fd5e3a7...couting-Report
He’s a good progressive passer and excels in certain categories but he’s in the bottom quartile for all of pressures, tackles, and blocks. In the bottom half for interceptions. He has an average amount of pressures. And as we’d all probably suspect, he’s near the bottom in terms of aerial duels won.
In totality, that to me does not look like the statistical output of a leading midfielder or an effective defensive midfielder.