Is this Rooney's year? As of today Wayne Rooney has 4 goals in 4 league games for his club, and 10
goals for 9 games including cup play and internatioanl games. That's a scoring rate one would not
expect Rooney to maintain, historically speaking. If you have read the football pundits about Wayne
Rooney in any of the last several years, it will have been hard to avoid glowing characterisations
of his football.
Strikers live and die by their goal tallies, so I thought it'd be interesting to take a peak to
see who is doing well as the European season gets under way. Here's a snapshot, see the link
below for the goal tallies on an on-going basis.
Top
League in Goals Top
Scorers England 4 Jermaine Defoe, Wayne Rooney France 4 Yoann Gourcuff Germany 4 Paolo Guerrero,
Stefan Kiessling Italy 3 Antonio Di Natale Portugal 3 Oscar Cardozo, Garcia Radamei Spain 3
Roberto Soldado
The players above have scored at an amazing rate over the first league games.
Numerologists will tell you that the date 9-9-09 is special. Sounds a bit far fetched, but
maybe strikers believe it.
There was a veritable goal spree in World Cup qualifying matches in Europe today, with two
countries racking up 7-0 victories. Here are a few fun facts from today's Europe matches:
- 72 goals were scored in 25 matches
- 48 goals were scored by the home teams
- 24 goals were scored by the away teams
England, Spain, and Netherlands have now each qualified for the World Cup with eight
straight wins.
