Ellanda is about to join, Newcastle United creates a "crazy" forward line

Newcastle United will officially announce the joining of Anthony Ellanga. The fast forward will join Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak to further enhance the threat of the Magpies in the counterattack.

This may be an appropriate abbreviation for Newcastle United's new front line. After all, the fast Anthony Elanga, Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon looked like they were clockworked.

Elanga, just ran a 100-meter-long runner-up in less than 11 seconds on the track. Judging from the statistics, he is the fastest striker in the Premier League last season.

Among the few wingers whose top speeds are close to Ellanda (36.7 km/h), Gordon is.

In fact, among all top league players with more than 1,000 minutes of playing time in the 2024-25 season, Gordon topped the list with 28.8 sprints per 90 minutes.

Elanga (26.2 times) also followed closely behind, ranking third. The Swedish international tied for Gordon in terms of the proportion of sprint running distance to the total running distance (5.1%).

Digging the data more deeply, Ellanga is also among the top in terms of his average distance to the ball (14.3 meters), the average distance to push the ball forward with each hand (11.9 meters), and the proportion of forward pushing the ball forward in the total distance to the ball (75.5%).

Newcastle is already extremely threatening in counterattacks - a very telling data is that the possession rate of most leagues won by the Magpie last season was lower than that of their opponents. And as legendary Rio Ferdinand explained, the arrival of Ellanga will only make this threat stronger.

"I think he's an excellent signing," the former England captain said of Ellanda. "The speed they have now is crazy."

"They can now fully retreat to the defense and fight back. They have players who can hurt you from every corner of the court."

"I'm really looking forward to seeing how he will perform. I've interviewed him a few times, and he was United when I knew him. A little kid. He is an incredible professional player. "

"Newcastle not only signed a player in good shape and excellent statistics, but more importantly, they signed someone who can improve the overall professional spirit of the club. "

"He will make sure he can integrate into the team environment that is striving to improve year after year under the guidance of coach Eddie Howe. "

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