All the Euro 2020 group stage player stats: One England standout

Ian Watson

The Euro 2020 knockout stages are upon us. Reece James is among the players whose stats stood out during the group stage. You can see the team stats here

 

Most goals
1) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) – 5
=2) Gini Wijnaldum (Netherlands), Robert Lewandowski (Poland), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Emil Forsberg (Sweden), Patrick Schick (Czech Republic) – 3
=7) Ivan Perisic (Croatia), Karim Benzema (France), Roman Yaremchuk (Ukraine), Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine), Raheem Sterling (England), Memphis Depay (Netherlands), Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland), Kai Havertz (Germany), Christian Poulsen (Denmark), Ciro Immobile (Italy), Manuel Locatelli (Italy) – 2
=13) 42 players – 1

 

Most assists
=1) Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Denmark), Steven Zuber (Switzerland) – 3
=3) David Alaba (Austria), Joshua Kimmich (Germany), Gareth Bale (Wales), Memphis Depay (Netherlands), Roland Sallai (Hungary), Robin Gosens (Germany), Gerard Moreno (Spain), Domenico Berardi (Italy), Pablo Sarabia (Spain), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium), Donyell Malen (Netherlands), Rafa Silva (Portugal), Dejan Kelusevski (Sweden) – 2
=16) 42 players – 1

 

Top speed
=1) Loic Nego (Hungary), Leonardo Spinazzola (Italy) – 33.8km/h
3) Kingsley Coman (France) – 33.7km/h
4) Cody Gakpo (Netherlands) – 33.6km/h
5) Daniel James (Wales) – 33.5km/h
=6) Andreas Christensen (Denmark), Marcos Llorente (Spain), Teemu Pukki (Finland), Josko Gvardiol (Croatia) – 33.3km/h

 


The statistics that point to England starting XI


 

Distance covered
1) Aleksandr Golovin (Russia) – 36km
2) Tomas Soucek (Czech Republic) – 35.1km
3) Adam Nagy (Hungary) – 34.8km
4) Joshua Kimmich (Germany) – 33.7km
=5) Vladimir Coufal (Czech Republic), Marcel Sabitzer (Austria) – 33.6km

 

Attempts on goal
1) Robert Lewandowski (Poland) – 12
=2) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Memphis Depay (Netherlands) – 11
=4) Patrick Schick (Czech Republic), Alvaro Morata (Spain), Breel Embolo (Switzerland), Gini Wijnaldum (Netherlands), Ciro Immobile (Italy), Martin Braithwaite (Denmark) – 10
10) Kai Havertz (Germany), Haris Seferovic (Switzerland), Burak Yilmaz (Turkey) – 9

 

Passing accuracy (minimum 90 minutes played)
1) Reece James (England – 90 mins) – 99%
2) Axel Witsel (Belgium – 121 mins) – 98.5%
3) Aymeric Laporte (Spain – 270 mins) – 98.3%
4) Duje Caleta-Car (Croatia – 90 mins) – 98%
5) Thomas Vermaelen (Belgium – 104 mins) – 97.7%

 

Passes attempted (completed)
1) Toni Kroos (Germany) – 314 (288)
2) Jordi Alba (Spain) – 294 (250)
3) Aymeric Laporte (Spain) – 274 (270)
4) Koke (Spain) – 263 (227)
5) David Alaba (Austria) – 252 (212)

 

Crosses attempted (accuracy)
1) Andy Robertson (Scotland) – 32 (35%)
2) David Alaba (Austria) – 22 (41%)
3) Joshua Kimmich (Germany) – 21 (33%)
4) Aleksandr Golovin (Russia) – 20 (22.3%)
5) Koke (Spain) – 19 (19.3%)

 

Dribbles
1) Kylian Mbappe (France) – 17
2) Joakhim Maehle (Denmark) – 15
=3) Gini Wijnaldum (Netherlands), Roland Sallai (Hungary) – 12
=5) Laszlo Kleinheixler (Hungary), Leroy Sane (Germany), Martin Braithwaite (Denmark), Alexander Isak (Sweden), Elif Elmas (North Macedonia), Mikkel Damsgaard (Denmark) – 11
11) Leonardo Spinazzola (Italy), Cengiz Under (Turkey), Serge Gnabry (Germany), Robin Lod (Finland) – 10

 

Caught offside
1) Artem Dzyuba (Russia) – 7
=2) Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Burak Yilmaz (Turkey), Mario Gavranovic (Switzerland) – 4
=5) Raheem Sterling (England), Roman Yaremchuk (Ukraine), Ciro Immobile (Italy), Kylian Mbappe (France), Bruno Petkovic (Croatia) – 3
=10) 8 players – 2
=18) 60 players – 1

 


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Balls recovered
1) Stfan De Vrij (Netherlands) – 29
2) Mykola Matviyenko (Ukraine) – 27
3) Oleksandr Karavaev (Ukraine) – 26
4) Simon Kjaer (Denmark) – 25
=5) Manuel Akanji (Switzerland), Adam Nagy (Hungary), Illia Zabanyi (Ukraine) – 24

 

Tackles won (attempted)
1) Stefan Lainer (Austria) – 8 (11)
2) Toni Kroos (Germany) – 6 (7)
3) Mykola Shaparenko (Ukraine) – 6 (8)
4) Thomas Muller (Germany) – 6 (10)
5) Roman Zobnin (Russia) – 5 (8)

 

Clearances attempted
1) Marcus Danielson (Sweden) – 35
2) Daniel O’Shaughnessy (Finland) – 25
3) Merih Demiral (Turkey) – 23
=4) Paulus Arajuuri (Finland), Joona Toivio (Finland) – 22
6) Milan Skriniar (Slovakia) – 21

 

Saves made
1) Ugurcan Cakir (Turkey) – 18
=2) Danny Ward (Wales), Lukas Hradecky (Finland), Stole Dimitrievski (North Macedonia) – 14
5) Martin Dubravka (Slovakia), Rui Patricio (Portugal), Peter Gulacsi (Hungary), Heorhiy Bushchan (Ukraine) – 11
9) David Marshall (Scotland), Robin Olsen (Sweden) – 10
11) Vaclik (Czech Republic) – 9