Wayne Rooney is the top performing player in the 2010 FIFA World
Cup European Qualifiers, according to the Castrol Index.
The main reason is that he has been directly involved in more
goals than any other player in the competition so far.
Four matchdays into the 2010 qualifying programme and Fabio
Capello’s England are sitting comfortably at the top of Group Six
with a 100 percent record, mostly thanks to the ebullient forward
Rooney.
England have scored 14 goals and Rooney has scored or set up
nine of those, meaning he has been directly involved in more goals
than any other player so far which explains his Castrol Index score
of 9.25 out of 10.
Rooney is joint-top goalscorer with five goals along with
Belgium’s Wesley Sonck who lies second in the table, only 0.02
points behind the Manchester Utd hot-shot.
The Portuguese midfielder Nani, Portugal’s top scorer in the
2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, makes up the podium (9.11).
Belgium, Germany and Northern Ireland are the only countries to
have multiple representatives in the Castrol Index Top 20.