Top Scorers to meet the best http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Defence-c38904 of the UEFA Champions League
As the match excitement builds for the UEFA Champions League final at Wembley, statistics reveal that two of the best sides in the competition are going to be facing each other. While http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 have scored the highest amount of goals in the European competition,
Manchester United have conceded the least.
The matchup between the Spanish Champions and English Champions reveals that the highest goal scoring team in the competition, Barcelona are going to be facing Manchester United; the team which has conceded the least amount of goals.
With these statistics coming forward, it simply explains that the match between the two sides is going to be balanced. While Barcelona are going to be playing all attacking football, Manchester United will play a relatively defensive side. Even though Manchester
United are famous for their goal scoring, this season they have outdone themselves in the defence.
Barcelona have scored 27 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season. In http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Total-c40747, Barcelona have played twelve games in Europe and they have scored 27 goals. The average number of goals they score in a game is 2.25. Out of the 27 goals scored by the Spanish
Champions, 11 have been scored by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296. The Argentinean maestro is also the leading goal scorer of the competition.
Lionel Messi is comfortably leading the goal scoring charts to the second placed Samuel Eto’o and Mario Gomez – both have scored 8 goals apiece.
The Los Blancos – http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Real-c30728 Madrid – are the second highest goal scorers in the competition with 25 goals. Compared to these two goal scoring giants, Manchester United have scored only 18 goals. This takes their average goal scoring tally to 1.5 goals per game.
Manchester United only have a single player who comes in the top twenty goal scorers of the European competition this season – Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. The Mexican striker has scored 4 goals in 10 games he has featured in. He is tenth in the goal scoring
ranking. The English striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 has also scored 3 goals.
Manchester United have relatively less goal scoring options. The English Champions rely on Wayne Rooney, Chicharito Hernanez, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 for their goal scoring and assists. On the other hand, Barcelona rely have a midfield blended well with
the striking force. All the five players playing ahead of the half way line manage to assist and score goals.
The two exemplary sides in Europe are going to be facing each other on the 28th of May in London.
Comparing the defences of both the sides Barcelona stand eighth in the “least amount of goals conceded” charts. Manchester United; however, have conceded the least amount of goals throughout the competition.
Barcelona have conceded eight goals in twelve games that they have played. This means that at an average they manage to slip in 0.67 goals per game. On the other hand, Manchester United have conceded only four goals. Manchester United’s goal conceding average
is simply phenomenal as they have conceded only 0.33 goals per game.
Both the teams are well matched and can surprise each other in the final scheduled on Saturday. However, Barcelona are considered to be the favourites to win the competition.
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