West Ham players were the joint fourth team in the Premier League to cover the most distance last weekend. The Hammers and Huddersfield covered 72 miles while Bournemouth covered 72.1 miles and Chelsea & Spurs covered 72.2 miles each.
West Ham captain Mark Noble was the Premier League player to cover the most miles over the weekend with 8 miles, Manuel Lanzini was not far behind in third place covering 7.8 miles.
Michail Antonio was one of the fastest players over the weekend registering 21.1mph in a sprint making him joint 7th in the Premier League.
Pedro Obiang covered 7.9 miles against Watford and 7.5 miles against Man City and 7.1 miles against Chelsea.
Lanzini covered 7.2 miles against Brighton while Noble covered 7.8 miles against Watford and 7.1 miles against Spurs.
Last but not least Cheik Kouyate covered 7.4 miles against Watford.
The statistics are the biggest sign so far that fitness levels are improving and Moyes is turning things around.
Hello Hugh – Can I deduce from these stats that Obiang is on the decline then as he is running less and less each game? And what if Nobes was just constantly chasing guys who are quicker and never actually influencing the game?
Of course neither are true, but just goes to show how strange data can be without context!
By the way I’m really upraised Chelsea covered more ground than us on Saturday. Didn’t look like that.
Upraised??? Meant surprised, sorry!
Yes Jimbo I was upraised by the result also (maybe a freudian slip) hehe
The stats are good we are also completing more sprints than under Bilic which shows that now we are being competitive with the fittest teams in the league, lets hope we can maintain that until the end of the season and beyond COYI !!!