Top scorers across Europe?

• FD2R.

  7 May 09, 18:11

  Guys, we know that England, Spain and Italy are the top 3 leagues in Europe and I've just realised something in the top scorers in the league.

  Italian League(Serie A)

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic 21

  Marco Di Vaio 21

  Alberto Diego Milito 19

  Alberto Gilardino 18

  Kaka 15

  Spanish League(La Liga)

  Samuel Eto'o 27

  Diego Forlan 25

  David Villa 25

  Lionel Messi 23

  Thiery Henry 19

  English League(EPL)

  Cristiano Ronaldo 17

  Nicolas Anelka 16

  Robinho 14

  Steven Gerrard 13

  Fernando Torres 13

   

  I don't understand how come is the EPL lagging behind so badly this season, even EPL's current top scorer, Ronaldo with 17 goals, is behind La Liga's 5th place top scorer, Henry with 19 goals. Hell, even the so called, uber defensive Serie A, has 4 players scoring more goals than EPL's top scorer.

  What has gone wrong this season? Although I'd still rate EPL the best league at the moment, has EPL gone too defensive? Or is it a matter of goals being widely spreaded amongst the team?

  Just my 2cents worth of words guys, hope you hear some inputs fellas.

  Cheers.

• youyayu

  7 May 09, 18:15

  er.. please leh.

  EPL defence is one of the strongest. you think want score jiu score?

• limpper

  7 May 09, 18:16

  cause, england top4 uses play team as an attacking options, so the goals gathered will be spreaded among teammates, unlike other leagues mah

• charlize

  7 May 09, 18:20

  I think one of the reason could be that the standards of the lower tier teams vs their top teams are wider than compared to the EPL.

   

  In the EPL, even the top 4 teams might just win most of their games against their lower opposition by just 1 goal.  Hence, scoring goals is probably harder.

   

  Whereas in the other leagues, the classy teams might be more likely to win by 2 goals or more against their lower opponents.

   

  Just a theory.

   

  Unless someone can be bothered to do a study and compile the stats for the past few years in the various leagues.

• sand king

  7 May 09, 20:47

  Other leauges have sucky lower teams, thats why the amount of goals. EPL got strong lower teams.

• Chris88110

  7 May 09, 21:47

  You never compile the topscorers for the Dutch league ah? That i wanna see

• gunner77

  8 May 09, 01:29

  ibrahimovic is one solid player man

• dinky1409

  8 May 09, 08:26

  BPL's defence is one of the best in the world.. it is not easy to score.. and yah ibrahimovich is good lawls.. but look at the la liga.. barca's attacking trio inside the top scorer lists.. damn ownage..

• ChingAlvin

  8 May 09, 08:59

  cannot compare BPL to spanise league one...
  
  E.G. Diego Forlan

• Patrik

  8 May 09, 09:29

  Originally posted by gunner77:

  ibrahimovic is one solid player man

  
  Agreed!

• iceFatboy

  8 May 09, 09:44

  Originally posted by Patrik:

  
  Agreed!

  well, is he? he seems only good in serieA.. I believe his record in UCL is dismal..

• iceFatboy

  8 May 09, 09:46

  Originally posted by charlize:

  I think one of the reason could be that the standards of the lower tier teams vs their top teams are wider than compared to the EPL.

   

  In the EPL, even the top 4 teams might just win most of their games against their lower opposition by just 1 goal.  Hence, scoring goals is probably harder.

   

  Whereas in the other leagues, the classy teams might be more likely to win by 2 goals or more against their lower opponents.

   

  Just a theory.

   

  Unless someone can be bothered to do a study and compile the stats for the past few years in the various leagues.

  agreed, added the fact, some EPL teams do park their bus whenever they visit the top teams.. hence, this restrict scoring.

   

• Aang

  8 May 09, 10:21

  henry pro... he at EPL or La Liga oso can score...

• sg_forum

  8 May 09, 13:25

  Ibrahimovich will not be a top scorer in England...

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  8 May 09, 13:28

  who is that  Di Vaio sia

• hisoka

  8 May 09, 13:31

  I think cos their attacking is better + defence weaker.

  look at barca vs real. 1 game 8 goals le.

• dinky1409

  8 May 09, 15:09

  Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):

  who is that  Di Vaio sia

  lol marco di vaio quite ol skool player sia lawls..

• omgukilledkenny

  8 May 09, 15:18

  Ibrahimovic disappears in big games.

  I rmb there was a statistic on this.

• FD2R.

  8 May 09, 16:47

  Hmm but guys last season's stats are way different, with EPL leading the scoresheet.

  English League(EPL)

  Cristiano Ronaldo 31
  Emmanuel Adebayor 24
  Fernando Torres 24
  Roque Santa Cruz 19
  Dimitar Berbatov 15

  Spanish League(La Liga)
  Daniel Güiza 27
  Luis Fabiano 24
  Sergio Leonel Aguero 19
  Raúl 18
  Nihat Kahveci 18

  Italian League(Serie A)

  Alessandro Del Piero 21
  David Trezeguet 20
  Marco Borriello 19
  Zlatan Ibrahimovic 17
  Adrian Mutu 17

  We can see that EPL dominates the top scorers, especially at the top 3 scorers. Serie A is lagging behind while La Liga is slightly behind EPL.

  Is it safe to say that this season, EPL teams have been concentrating on their defense? Or more of Italian/Spanish teams being more creative and concentrate on their attack?

  Or is it just a case of Ronaldo, Torres and Adebayor hitting form last season but failing to reproduce such form this season?