Cristiano Ronaldo is the most prolific goalscorer ... In front of goal, he is a real assassin. The only player I’ve seen have this clarity when shooting on his own is David Trezeguet.” ...

And that's no knock on them — again, it's hard to score a single goal in the league. Now, imagine scoring hundreds of them. That's what Alexander Ovechkin has done throughout his career.

Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alex Ovechkin may be fast approaching the record for most goals in NHL history, but he broke a different record on April 4. His goal in the third ...

most representative of all, a couple of dinks. After all, five and a half per cent of Messi’s career goals (47 out of 860) have been dinked over a goalkeeper. This goal, his greatest ...

A researcher has analyzed the most frequent situations ... It can be deduced from the analysis of all these factors that the most dangerous shots on goal are those made with the first touch ...

The vast majority of teams in the Premier League are going short from their goal-kicks most of the time ... the Gunners' fierce rivals Tottenham have, somewhat incredibly, gone long with just ...

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Arsenal are the Premier League team who go long most often from goal ... that number has shot up to 78 per cent of all goal kicks going long. That is 15 per cent ...