Withdrawal symptoms
- Peter van Dyk
- 29 Jun 06, 06:59 AM
A day without World Cup football. How did you survive. How will you survive - it's still more than 24 hours until the next game (but what a game!).
Here at World Cup Have Your Say, we're getting our footy fix by talking statistics. Shots, passes, saves, tackles - it's all recorded these days. But what can you really tell from all the information?
We're asking the experts, but in the meantime, here are some stats to get you going...
Swiss Referee Massimo Busacca speaks the most languages - Italian, English, French, German and Spanish.
Most fast break attacks - Ivory Coast (27) followed by Germany and Poland on 26
Dirtiest player - Mark Viduka -16 fouls
Most Fouled Suffered - Luis Figo - 19
Most Saves Joao Ricardo (Angola) and Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Japan) 21
Portugal are the dirtiest team - 18yellows, 3 Reds - 96 Fouls committed
Cleanest team is Brazil with just 35 fouls!
Top Tackler - Anatoliy Tymoschuk - 24 tackles
Long Ball tactics - Ukraine (465) and England (434)
USA has the least shots on goal with just 4!!!
Henry and Viduka have been caught offside the most with 9 each
Frank Lampard has had the most shots with 21
The Swiss were knocked out in the second round despite not conceding a goal in the whole tournament - a first
The Swedes have had the most corners with 30. T & T had just 5 - no wonder they didn't score a single goal
The Swedish wide men have been the busiest - 126 crosses into the box. Tunisia must play through the middle as they only managed 36. Even Brazil is only on 59.
Graham Poll is the biggest porker in black - weighing in at 88kg
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England the Lionhearted. I sat up in mid winter in Sydney watching England play one man short & play so strongly that Portugal could only beat them in a penalty shoot out. England see you back on the World Cup field in 2010, cheers.
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