Bradley Barcola, Bryan Mbeumo and Thierno Barry.
Bradley Barcola, Bryan Mbeumo and Thierno Barry make the top 10
Liverpool and Everton each have two representatives in the top 10 fastest players this season, topped by a Leeds stalwart.
To gauge the quickest player, our friends at Gradient Sports record the average of each player’s top five observed maximum one-second speeds (km/h).
Here are the top 10 in the Premier League, with half being top-flight newbies…
10) Bradley Barcola (Liverpool) – 33.31km/h
Barcola clocked 35.77km/h against Arsenal. Not that it did Liverpool much good.
9) Thierno Barry (Everton) – 33.32km/h The Everton forward is one of three players in this list to also make the top 10 for number of sprints, along with the number five below, and this fella…
8) Bryan Mbeumo (Manchester United) – 33.57km/h
The United winger has made the seventh-highest number of sprints and the fourth-highest number of high-speed runs, which perhaps earns him an exemption from all the flak flying at United over their running stats.
7) Merlin Rohl (Everton) – 33.75km/h Rohl has never been quicker than he was at Bournemouth (34.61km/h) on matchday two. Everton have two representatives in the fastest 10 and two more in the top 10 for distance covered.
6) Anthony Elanga (Newcastle United) – 33.84km/h
Gradient have given the Toon flier the league’s third-highest Athleticism Score (a single metric measuring athleticism by incorporating stamina, explosiveness, and game context) behind only team-mate Matias Fernandez-Pardo and Ipswich’s Daizen Maeda.
5) Leif Davis (Ipswich Town) – 33.87km/h
The Ipswich full-back is built for speed and stamina, apparently, judging by the fact he also makes the top 10 for distance covered.
4) Milan van Ewijk (Coventry City) – 33.88km/h
Last season, in the Championship, the Coventry full-back maxed at 34.61km/h.
3) Victor Munoz (Liverpool) – 33.98km/h The winger is Liverpool’s fastest player this season ahead of Barcola and in second and Milos Kerkez (32.17km/h) third.
2) Dayann Metalie (Sunderland) – 34.01km/h
The Sunderland new boy only has made only one start and one substitute appearance but that was enough time to clock the second-highest speed in the Premier League. Last term, in Ligue 1 for Toulouse, he reached a high of 36.17km/h.
1) Joe Rodon (Leeds United) – 34.82km/h
Running this fast evidently isn’t good for the hamstrings since Rodon’s went twang in Leeds’ second game of the season.