A bad night for Mayoral

Not all games can be heads and Roma-Milan was the cross for Borja Mayoral. The striker on loan from Madrid was barely noticed at the Olímpico and Kessie and Rebic's goals beat Veretout's goal, the best of the locals. The Parleño was absent and ended up being replaced by Pedro in the 79th minute. When Fonseca needed the goal most, he dispensed with his starting center forward, but is that the '21' was not at his level. And that line follows 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' by pointing out that “it was almost disappeared”.

The problems between Dzeko and Fonseca have even removed the Bosnian from the captaincy and the Spaniard has been the great beneficiary of this clash of views, as he has become the team's starting center forward. So far he had responded to confidence with goals (Until Milan's visit, he had 11 in 1,296 minutes, an average of one goal every 114 '). However, as we progressed, the rossoneri they crossed him to such an extent that the aforementioned media considers that Mayoral was the worst of the game, with a '5' as a note (shared with Fazio): “Without danger, without presence for the rival defense, he left the weight of the attack to the attacking midfielders and did not shoot“.

In fact, they came to remember the former Roman captain by adding that “Dzeko's absence is serious, it's time to look for an alternative “. Mayoral's statistical sheet in the match goes hand in hand with what was slipped by the Italians, since according to the data collected by SofaScore, he only fired one shot in the whole game, which was blocked by the rival defense. Nor did he emerge victorious from the only dribble he tried or was successful when he had possession, because accumulated 11 turnovers.

A mole on the launch course

Some numbers far from the averages that had placed him as the Spanish striker with the best ratio top scorer of the season, ahead of Gerard Moreno, Roger Martí, Álvaro Morata or Mikel Oyarzabal. What's more, Mayoral's goals improve Jovic and even Benzema. In addition, to the 11 goals scored he adds 6 assists that show that the low participation against Milan is far from being the usual trend in the campaign in question. Roma will have the ball on their roof, as they have a purchase option at the end of the current year and the next for 15 and 20 million euros respectively.

In Serie A our protagonist has found the ideal setting to launch a career that did not finish taking off after shining in the lower categories of Real Madrid. In his assignment to Wolfsburg he could only score 2 goals in 21 games, while in his two years on loans at Levante he became an important man for Paco López. Nevertheless, with the Giallorossi vastly improve all your records to a professional level (With the granotas he scored 14 goals in 69 games), but Milan choked him …