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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Paul Campbell

Football quiz: who are the Premier League top goalscorers by country?

Mesut Özil scored his 30th Premier League goal on Monday – one more than Jürgen Klinsmann and Uwe Rösler.
Mesut Özil scored his 30th Premier League goal on Monday – one more than Jürgen Klinsmann and Uwe Rösler. Photograph: Javier Garcia/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
  1. Which Spaniard has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Cesc Fàbregas

    2. Diego Costa

    3. Fernando Torres

    4. David Silva

  2. Which Brazilian has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Roberto Firmino

    2. Juninho

    3. Philippe Coutinho

    4. Willian

  3. Viduka and Kewell.

    Which Australian has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Mark Viduka

    2. Harry Kewell

    3. Tim Cahill

    4. Mile Jedinak

  4. Which Italian has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Mario Balotelli

    2. Fabrizio Ravanelli

    3. Paolo Di Canio

    4. Gianfranco Zola

  5. Which Scot has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Charlie Adam

    2. Duncan Ferguson

    3. Gary McAllister

    4. Kevin Gallacher

  6. Which Irishman has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Niall Quinn

    2. Roy Keane

    3. Shane Long

    4. Robbie Keane

  7. Which Frenchman has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Nicolas Anelka

    2. Eric Cantona

    3. Olivier Giroud

    4. Thierry Henry

  8. Which Colombian has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Juan Pablo Ángel

    2. Faustino Asprilla

    3. Hugo Rodallega

    4. Radamel Falcao

  9. Which Swede has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

    2. Sebastian Larsson

    3. Tomas Brolin

    4. Freddie Ljungberg

  10. Which Ghanaian has scored most goals in the Premier League?

    1. Michael Essien

    2. Tony Yeboah

    3. André Ayew

    4. Asamoah Gyan

Solutions

1:C - Torres scored 85 goals in the Premier League: 65 for Liverpool and 20 for Chelsea., 2:C - Coutinho joined Liverpool from Inter, who he is facing in the Champions League this week with Barcelona., 3:A - Viduka scored his first goal for Leeds in a 6-0 thrashing of Besiktas in the Champions League., 4:C - Di Canio played for three clubs in the Premier League: Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham and Charlton., 5:B - He scored 68 goals in the league… and picked up eight red cards – more than Lee Cattermole, Vinne Jones and Roy Keane., 6:D - And he scored them all at the clubs he supported as a boy., 7:D - Only four players – Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney, Andrew Cole and Frank Lampard – have scored more Premier League goals than Henry., 8:A - However, he once missed two penalties in the same game – against Fulham in 2005., 9:D - And no one looked better in a pair of pants., 10:B - And he scored the Premier League’s best ever goal.

Scores

  1. 8 and above.

    Superb

  2. 1 and above.

    Oh dear.

  3. 2 and above.

    Oh dear

  4. 3 and above.

    Oh dear

  5. 4 and above.

    Decent

  6. 5 and above.

    Decent

  7. 6 and above.

    A fine score

  8. 7 and above.

    A fine score

  9. 9 and above.

    Superb

  10. 0 and above.

    Oh dear.

  11. 10 and above.

    You are the Alan Shearer of football goalscoring quizzes

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