The flabby bull has finally, if only by the smallest of margins, been squeezed from the summit of
Serie B. After a run of 114 days as league leaders, Torino's second 1-1 draw with Cittadella was
enough to see Sassuolo claim top spot on goal-difference and il Toro pushed back into the pack.
It's taken brilliant consistency from the Neroverde and Verona and another blast of victories from
Pescara.
Continuing on the theme of "a picture's worth a thousand words", here are the best and worst
performing offensive sides from across the Top 5 European leagues (Premier League, La Liga,
Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1) over the last decade (since the 2001/02 season).
The bars show the average number of goals scored per match; the axes on the two graphs have
identical scales so that you can see how much better the very best teams were than the very worst.
