The lung-bursting numbers from Engels and McGregor as Celtic stars sprint to top of Champions League charts
The Celtic pair are the frontrunners, literally, after the first two days of the revamped Champions League
Arne Engels and Callum McGregor ran Slovan Bratislava into the ground - and now the dynamic duo top the Champions League charts for distance covered after 20 teams have played.
Celtic delivered their biggest win ever in Europe's elite competition as they charged through the Slovakian side like a runaway train under the lights at Parkhead. Engels scored his second goal in as many games from the penalty spot to put them 3-0 up, and after Kevin Wimmer gave the visitors something to celebrate with an outside-of-the-boot curler past Kasper Schmeichel, Daizen Maeda and Adam Idah struck to make it a rout.
New signing Engels already looks worth every penny of the club-record £11m spent on him, having already struck up a telepathic understanding with his captain McGregor and Reo Hatate in the engine room. But as much as their synergy on-and-off the ball was too much for Slovan to handle, the aspect of Celtic's game that really put them to bed was the Hoops' sheer running power.
Official stats posted by UEFA show that Engels and McGregor in particular have stood out on that front. Incredibly, the midfielders each ran 12.6km in the opening game - more than any other individual player has managed across the other nine games that have taken place.
PSG's Warren Zaire-Emery (12.3km) comes the closest after their 1-0 win over Girona. The Hoops' Greg Taylor (12km) and Daizen Maeda (11.1km) also make the top ten - with the Hoops and Girona making up eight of the top ten in that metric.
It comes as no surprise from a Celtic perspective to see Maeda registering one of the fastest sprints so far - his 34.2km/h the fourth-quickest of any player so far, behind Stuttgart's Josha Vagnoman, AC Milan's Fikayo Tomori and PSG's Bradley Barcola. Kyogo (32.8km/h) and Nicolas Kuhn (32.3km/h) also rank within the top 20.