Espanyol was imprecise in the auctions in El Sadar (0-0), scored illegally on two occasions against the Villarreal (0-0) and he only pitched once with some danger on goal in Mallorca (1-0). Three games without scoring for the highest-scoring team in LaLiga SmartBank last year, 270 minutes that, if prolonged against Atlético on Saturday 11 (they have only received one goal), could be the worst offensive start in the club's history.
To date, you don't have to look far to find that dire statistic. The course 2019-20 happened, the one of the last descent. Espanyol did not score until minute 76 of the fourth day of the championship in Eibar (1-2). The record was set at 346 minutes, more than the 283 in the 1945-46 season.. That course Espanyol accused the lack of a goal. Front Jonathan Calleri, Víctor Campuzano, Facundo Ferreyra and Wu Lei they did not work, and at Christmas the club had to invest without changing the dynamics.
Unlike that course, in which they opted for a loan officer like Calleri, the club does have heavy investments in the attack zone. Between Raúl de Tomás (22.5), Adrián Embarba (10) and Nanny Dimata (2.2) the amount in the last year and a half has been 34.7 million, the largest investment in the history of the entity in attack players. At the moment, it has not translated into goals in the return to Primera.
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The data: only 28% of shots go to goal
Espanyol has thrown nine times on goal in the three games played. In each game he has achieved the same shots between the three clubs, although with different danger. The shots are distributed in three from outside the area (two from Embarba and one from Sergi Darder), a header from a set piece (Sergi Gómez) and six from within the area, five of them from Raúl de Tomás, who mainly assumes responsibility for the goal.
In total, the summary is that Espanyol has thrown 32 times in three games, with an efficiency rate in their shots of 28%, which at least go between the three clubs, but without success. Translated into the championship statistics, before the match against Mallorca Espanyol was above the LaLiga average on occasions per game (11.2), although the eight in the last match now places it below. Likewise, only 28% of his shots go to goal, which places him in the sixth last position of the championship.
Although the goals are sometimes a matter of streaks of the attackers, from these data it appears that the Blue and Whites have created occasions like the average of the First teams, but that their forwards have not been effective, either due to their lack of success or because the occasions were not the most propitious. Like in Mallorca, where Espanyol barely came close to Reina's goal.