There are immovable realities, which existed before the coronavirus pandemic and which remain behind it. This Rayo Vallecano was and still feels the king … of the tie! Thanks to the 17 harvested this season, there is no team from LaLiga and the great European championships to match this record. Although, to tell the truth, until this day 32 he had shared that scepter with Racing.
Now the franjirrojo team does not have to share the crown with anyone. His draw against the leader at Carranza put him at the head of Second (Racing follows him with 16 and Mirandés with 15) and First (Atlético has 13 and 11 are Athletic, Osasuna, Valladolid and Celta). And despite those 17 tables, the Madrid team remains just three points from the playoff. His great objective of the course.
Nor do the main continental leagues have a team with such records. The teams that tie the most in the Premier League are Arsenal and Wolverhampton (13 of 29 matches), in Bundesliga is Schalke 04 (12 of 31), in the Ligue 1 are Reims and Amiens (11 of 28) and in the A series is Fiorentina (9 of 26).
Of those 17 ties harvested by Rayo, it should be noted that eleven of them arrived at home and only six in Vallecas. Further, in eight of them (47.1% of the total), the redheads had been ahead on the scoreboard and ended up wasting this advantage. Something that happened – without going any further – this Sunday, with the goal of Cádiz, the work of Álvaro Giménez in the 85th minute, after taking advantage of a defensive error by the visitors.
Statistics do not deceive: Rayo have conceded seven draws, conceding rival goals from the 70th minute – four of them from the 80 'and two of those, from the 90' -. The franjirrojos were winning and ended up adding a point against the Miranda (Andrés's 2-2 at 71 '), the Almeria (1-1 of Juan Muñoz in the 74 '), the Fuenlabrada (2-2 by Hugo Fraile, from a penalty, in the 95 '), the Alcorcón (1-1 Stoichkov, penalty, in the 99 '), the Numantia (2-2 of Moha in 73 '), the Estremadura (1-1 for Alegría in 88 ') and the Cadiz (1-1 of Álvaro in the 85 ').