Fastest League Pro Game
Kathleen Denson
The 22-year-old Tottenham Hotspur defender, who hit a top speed of 35.97 km/h playing for Wolfsburg last campaign, went even faster by clocking an astonishing 37.38 km/h against Brentford on 31 January, a record in the Premier League since the data started being collected in 2020/21.
Indeed, the Dutchman's explosive speed was on show again at the weekend, when he effortlessly made up ground to get a tackle in on Dominic Calvert-Lewin, before doing the same in the second half with a turbo-charged recovery after Jack Harrison had sprinted clear.
Until Van de Ven's lung-bursting run in Spurs' 3-2 win against Brentford, Luton Town's Chiedozie Ogbene had recorded the top Premier League speed this season of just under 37km/h against Fulham in September.
Van de Ven's time is even more remarkable due to it being a huge 0.45km/h quicker than the fastest speed recorded by Ogbene, who had been a mere 0.07km/h faster than Pedro Neto of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
From Usain Bolt to Ronnie Baker via Asafa Powell and Christian Coleman, we have collated the fastest 100m runners ever to compete in the IAAF Diamond League over the years. So sit back, relax and enjoy some raw, track-burning speed.
The fastest man on the planet naturally features more than once in our compilation. A blistering 9.76 in Rome in 2012 was Bolt's finest performance in the Diamond League, but his 9.79 in Oslo in the same year was also worth watching again, if only for the moment when he crashes into the flower girl after crossing the finish line.
Christian Coleman matched that 9.79 in Rome earlier this year, in a performance which announced his arrival on the Diamodn League stage. Despite injury issues, the American would go on to bag a Diamond Trophy later in the summer.
Yohan Blake, on the other hand, managed the same time without a tailwind in Lausanne back in 2012. His 9.69 technically came in a non-Diamond League event, but remains an unbeaten Diamond League Record until this day.
Rooney's hat-trick on 10 September 2011 and Matt Le Tissier's hat-trick on 19 August 1995 were scored through set pieces, which consists of penalty kicks and direct free kicks.[6] Everton's Duncan Ferguson and Salomn Rondn of West Bromwich Albion are the only Premier League players to have scored a hat-trick of headers.[7] 36 different players have scored a "perfect" hat-trick in the Premier League since its inception, but only two players have achieved this feat more than once: Robbie Fowler has scored three (all for Liverpool) and Yakubu has scored two (one each for Blackburn Rovers and Everton).[8]
Most number of hat-tricks scored on the same day is three, which happened twice in the history of Premier League: on 23 September 1995 Fowler, Shearer and Tony Yeboah registered hat-tricks, and on 2 September 2023 Evan Ferguson, Erling Haaland and Son Heung-min scored three goals each.[9]
Sergio Agero has scored three or more goals twelve times in the Premier League, more than any other player. Alan Shearer is second with eleven hat-tricks; Robbie Fowler has scored nine, and Henry, Kane and Michael Owen have each scored eight hat-tricks. Five players have each scored hat-tricks for three different clubs: Yakubu (Blackburn, Everton and Portsmouth); Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City); Kevin Campbell (Arsenal, Everton and Forest); Les Ferdinand (Newcastle United, Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham) and Teddy Sheringham (Manchester United, Portsmouth and Tottenham).[5] Four players have scored hat-tricks and still ended up on the losing side: Matt Le Tissier (twice), Dion Dublin, Roque Santa Cruz and Dwight Yorke.[12]
The youngest player to score a Premier League hat-trick was Michael Owen for Liverpool, when he scored his first league hat-trick against Sheffield Wednesday on 14 February 1998 at the age of 18 years and 62 days.[13][14] The oldest scorer of a Premier League hat-trick is Teddy Sheringham with an age of 37 years and 146 days playing for Portsmouth against Bolton Wanderers on 26 August 2003.[11]
The Dubious Goals Committee has sometimes decided after a match that players have not scored hat-tricks because one of the goals was incorrectly credited to them. Southampton player Egil stenstad was thought to have scored a hat-trick against Manchester United in 1996, but the committee ruled that one of the goals be credited as an own goal to United's Phil Neville.[15][16] Anelka's first goal for Manchester City in September 2002 was later credited as an own goal to Everton's Tomasz Radzinski.[17] Javier Hernndez was denied a hat-trick against Aston Villa in November 2012 after the committee ruled his second goal was actually an own goal by Ron Vlaar.[18]
Speed is a key component of modern day football in every area of the pitch and it can be an unforgiving sport if a player is a few yards too slow. Strikers have a serious advantage if they can sprint past their markers onto through balls, while defenders need to have a decent turn of pace if they want to keep up.
Of course, speed over a distance is but one component of a player's arsenal and they must combine it with strength, fitness, game intelligence and skill on the ball. Nevertheless, a strong sprinter has a solid base from which to build.
Kyle Walker has long been considered to be among the fastest footballers on the planet, so it's little surprise to see him topping the speedsters chart for the 2022-23 Premier League season.
At the halfway point of the campaign, new Chelsea signing Mykhailo Mudryk was in the number-one spot with a top speed of 36.63 km/h. However, the Ukrainian was only good enough for third place in the end.
Nottingham Forest and Wales star Brennan Johnson was the second quickest player in the Premier League with a record speed of 36.70 km/h. Anthony Gordon narrowly beat out Darwin Nunez for fourth position, with the Liverpool forward rounding off the top five.
Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt is the fastest man ever to have lived, setting the record for the 100m sprint at 9.58 seconds in 2009. He also holds the second (9.63 secs) and third (9.69 secs) fastest times. Bolt, who is now retired, hit a fastest recorded top speed of 44.72 km/h, which is significantly faster than the top speed of modern footballers.
Interestingly, the fastest Premier League footballers tend to be faster than the fastest American footballers in NFL. For example, Devin Duvernay of the Ravens was the fastest NFL player in 2022 with a top speed of 34.76 km/h, which is 1.87 km slower than Mudryk's high speed in 2022.
Are you someone who has sunk hours and hours of your time in the MOBA behemoth that is League of Legends but still has a rather low summoner level? Well, it might be that you're doing something wrong in terms of getting XP, and that's what we're here to change.By far the fastest way of leveling up in League of Legends is simply winning games. The longer the game the more experience you're likely to get. Pair this with some other tricks, like using the first win of the day feature, and playing with beginner level bots to ensure you win and you'll reach the level you want in no time.
Now, there isn't just one specific thing you have to do if you want to maximize your XP gain. Instead, there are a couple of things you should do together. Everything we mention below will increase the speed at which you level up, and the more steps you follow, the more XP you'll get.
This one is pretty straightforward. The more you win games the more XP you're likely to get, especially when compared to the XP you would get if you lose the match. Because of this, we always recommend you play to win instead of playing to pass time as a lot of players do.
There are a couple of things you can do to increase your chances of winning, such as always securing the dragon if you're playing regular Summoner's Rift, and having excellent players in your team every time you play a match so you don't have to be paired up with strangers who may or may not be good.
Alternatively, if you're someone who's under level 30 and wants to grind XP, then the best thing to do would be to simply repeatedly play games against beginner level bots. Unfortunately, the amount of XP you gain gets cut down by 25% after you reach level 30, but until then it's the fastest way of reaching that level to unlock ranked mode.
One little known fact is that the longer a match is, the more XP you're likely to get. Now, if we told you to try and drag on every single match, it's a given you would be more likely to risk losing, and therefore getting less XP than you would have gotten if you would have just ended the game.
However, we do recommend that if you're matched up against players who aren't all that good, and you're confident that you'll win, you try to drag the match on and not end it before the game even hits the 30 minute mark.
Every day, players will notice there's a first win of the day quest that's given to them. This quest does exactly what it sounds like, which is to reward you for winning at least one match every single day.
We're sure a couple of you already know where this is going. Even if you're someone who isn't able to play too much, if you log in and win at least one match every day, you'll be more likely to get enough XP to consistently level up. After all, every time you complete this game, you get 400 XP as a reward.
On average, a 30 minute win will earn approximately 204 XP, and a 30 minute loss will earn approximately 167 XP. However, if the game drags on longer, you'll get more XP, and vice versa if the game ends quicker.
Aram and URF are both game modes that usually have significantly shorter matches than an average game of Summoner's Rift. However, the average XP per won match gained from these two game modes is around 175 and can go up to 300 if the game is dragged on longer.
How long it takes for you to get from level 0 to 30 depends on several factors. For example, if you were to play with an XP boost then you would have to win anywhere between 40 and 60 games. When taking into consideration that you might not win every game, you're looking at 7 to 10 days of grinding.
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