Heads you win- Why have so many goals at Euro 2012 been headers?

Taken from the Daily MirrorEuro 2012 has been embraced as an open and entertaining tournament with 69 goals scored in the opening 28 games, which means that if the remaining matches in the final stages of the competition produce at least 8 more goals then for the third tournament running, at least 77 goals will have been witnessed by football fans.Those figures are an indication of how open most of the games have been, although England and Italy spoiled the party with a 0-0 draw, but the remarkable fact to take from the goal scoring figures is that 20 of the 69 goals scored have been headers, already 3 more than the previous record set in 2004.In typically cautious style, Uefa’s technical team say that the sample size of matches is too small to draw any specific conclusions as to why there...
 

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