THE Premier League has seen a goalden start to the season – but it can’t boast the most per game in Europe.
That honour, perhaps surprisingly to football fans who remember the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, goes to Serie A.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the biggest attacking talent in Italian footballCredit: AP:Associated Press
Italian football is famous for being defensively minded – but this season there have been plenty of ‘Gooooooooolazooooooooos’.
Serie A leads the way in terms of goals per game in the top European leagues this term – thanks, in part, to having sharpshooters such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romelu Lukaku.
The Prem can boast 3.58 goals per game, which would have been better but for the fact only one was scored in two matches on Monday night.
The Italian top-flight has a marginally better rate, at 3.66.
A lack of fans in the stands has seen the onion bag bulge across the continent.
SunSport’s Chief Sports Writer Dave Kidd described the new goal-laden Premier League as ‘magnificently, unpredictably bonkers’.
And it also seems Serie A is now less Catenaccio, more cat amongst the pigeons as scorelines like 4-3 become the norm.
The Bundesliga comes in third with 3.08 goals-per-game, followed by France’s Ligue 1.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is joint-top scorer in Serie A this season with fourCredit: EPA
The Championship, usually the scene of goals galore, is averaging a ‘mere’ two per match.
So, Italian football is the place to go to see the net bulge.
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