Quick Euro 2008 Quiz Question

[chrissivad]

Ballack is over 30km/h as well.

acording to euro2008stats.com

way late...teaches me not to start a post and wonder off on other pages

 

[haxman]

Only means in this tournament. Torries may have just not had cause to hit his top speed because I'm certain he' quite rapid.

True - but that's still impressive for a man of 37 Eek

 

[joey55]

1) Ivica Olic - 31.76kph
2) Robin van Persie - 31.53
3) Dmitri Torbinski - 31.32
4) Vassilis Torosidis - 31.11
5) Michael Ballack - 30.88
6) Miroslav Klose - 30.86
7) Wilfred Bouma - 30.78
8) Valon Behrami - 30.46
9) Mariusz Jop - 30.13
10) David Odonkor - 30.13
11) Dirk Kuyt - 29.80
12) Henrik Larsson 29.54

Ballack and Larsson musthave been like lightning in their prime

Against Portugal Nihat reached a top speed of 31.11 and he is missing from that list (unless he real name is Torosidis).

 

[Bobishism]

Which proves stats can prove anything.

 

[ben_the_yido]

But do you know who has scored the quickest goal of the tournament so far (this should be easy)

 

[gooch]

Modric?

 

[kishman]

This was in the latest sunday times.

 

[Supersonic]

Olic doesnt even look fast. Surely Henry or Anelka or Podolski are faster

 

[joey55]

Olic doesnt even look fast. Surely Henry or Anelka or Podolski are faster

It raises an interesting deabte. People go on and on about the importance of pace, but outside of the Prem (where we tend to play a high defensive line and quick build up play), is it as important? When teams defend deeper and often play with 5 in midfield are there opportunities for the likes of Henry or Anelka to show their pace? I can't remember many examples during the tournament so far of blistering pace and this is almost certainly because space had been hard to come by. Olic has obvioulsy found the chance to stretch his legs, whilst the likes of Henry haven't. And with more and more teams playing 451 in the Prem and sitting that bit deeper, is pace going to become less important?