William Gomes has the pace, Froholdt gives FC Porto muscle | OneFootball

Farioli emphasized, more than once throughout the season, that running more than the opponent is a characteristic of the team and one of the non-negotiable demands of the playing model he sought to implement. “When we see a team fighting with all this determination, outperforming the opponent’s effort twofold and running more than the opposition in almost every game, we can clearly say that we are on the right path to restoring FC Porto to the place it belongs,” he said. In fact, by the end of the season, Porto had run more than their rivals in all but three of the 53 matches played: against Famalicão and Tondela, by very narrow margins, and against Nottingham Forest, when they had been down to 10 men from very early on.

The FC Porto coach’s statement, made at the end of April before the match against Estrela da Amadora, is confirmed by the numbers. The Goal Point portal analyzed the league, and the blue and whites emerged as the fastest team in the Liga, with an average of 33.1 kilometers per hour per game (Sporting came second with 32.9), while also standing out as the side with the highest percentage of distance covered per game at speeds above 15 km/h, with 23%. They were also the team that accumulated the most kilometers in high-intensity running, between 21 and 25 km/h, and in sprints. In addition, they were the ones who spent the least time walking. It was an unmistakable demonstration of the physical superiority and intensity of the national champions.

On an individual level, FC Porto also have two players standing out in several rankings. William Gomes appears as the fastest, after reaching a top speed of 33.1 km/h. Sporting’s Luis Suárez is second with 32.9 km/h, and Terem Moffi completes the podium with 32.8 km/h. Victor Froholdt is only Porto’s 18th fastest player and the third among the championship’s overall “road runners,” with 10.768 kilometers covered per 90 minutes, slightly behind Alex Amorim of Alverca. Even so, the data clearly confirms the Dane’s physical dimension: FC Porto’s locomotive leads in distance covered while running and in high-intensity runs, almost 56 per game, that is, above 20 km/h.

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