Top scorers across Europe?

FD2R. SG

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 SG

er.. please leh.

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

limpper SG

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

charlize SG

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 SG

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

Chris88110 SG

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

gunner77 SG

ibrahimovic is one solid player man

dinky1409 SG

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 SG

cannot compare BPL to spanise league one...

E.G. Diego Forlan

Patrik SG

ibrahimovic is one solid player man

Agreed!

iceFatboy SG

Agreed!

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

iceFatboy SG

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 SG

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

sg_forum SG

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

Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1) SG

who is that Di Vaio sia

hisoka SG

I think cos their attacking is better + defence weaker.

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

dinky1409 SG

who is that Di Vaio sia

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

omgukilledkenny SG

Ibrahimovic disappears in big games.

I rmb there was a statistic on this.

FD2R. SG

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?