Champions League Underdogs: Miracle Runs

The Champions League will return until the penultimate week of January and in these six days of the league phase there are several that stand out for individual statistics. For now, The player who has reached the highest speed is the Belgian, Landry Dimata of Pafos (39.6 km/h) and the one who has traveled the furthest distance is Pedro Porro from Tottenham (50 km). Of the Colombians, Kevin Medina and Lucho Díaz command in each one.

“¡Corre, Forrest, corre!“, The mythical phrase from the 1994 film serves to represent the players who have traveled the greatest speed and distance so far in this edition of the Champions League and who lead Arsenal in points. Although, Menotti assured that, The most important thing in football is not to stop running, but to stop thinking. Here we make the list of Colombians who stand out in speed and occupied ground on the field.

Luis Díaz, the Colombian who travels the furthest distance

With an average of 6.3 kilometers traveled per game, Lucho is the Colombian who has marked the most distance in this version of the UCL with 25 km in total (seventh behind Bayern, but with 2 games less). He has played 4 games, 261 minutes on the field and has scored 3 goals.

Kevin Medina from Qarabag appears in second place among us with a total distance of 19.6 km. Richard Ríos follows closely with 19.5 kilometers. Thus to close the top 3 of the Colombians who have covered the most ground up to this point in the competition.

Kevin Medina, the fastest of ours in the Champions League

The 30-year-old defender who plays for the Azerbaijan team is the Colombian who has achieved the highest speed in the tournament so far. With 33.8 km/h, Medina prevails over Lucho Díaz, who is second with 32.9.

Davinson is the Colombian who has set the least speed. The Galatasaray centre-back closes the list with a maximum of 29.2 km/h. Meanwhile, Juan David Cabal with just 37 minutes on the court has surpassed Richard Ríos with a record of 30.6 km/h, little more than what the Benfica player has (30.2 km/h).

At a general level, The best team with Colombians is Bayern Munich, who already recovers Lucho for the game on the seventh date against Union Saint-Gilloisewhich will be next January 21 (3:00 pm) at the Allianz Arena. The most committed is Richard Ríos in Benfica with just 6 points in 25th place, although he is very close to the qualifying phase, but he is forced to add the 6 that remain at stake.

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