Alberto Moreno is to a single goal to become the highest scoring defense of history from Villarreal in a season. In fact, his six goals this season have served him to equalize the records of Joan Capdevila and Rodolfo Martin Arruabarrena, who are the defenders also with six goals, who had scored the most goals in a single campaign.
Curiously, Moreno joins the list of scoring left-backs, a list that includes Arruabarrena, Capdevila or Juan Pablo Sorín. Moreno has scored three goals in the league, against Celta at Balaídos (1-1), Elche at La Cerámica (4-1), and against Atlético also at home (2-2). What’s more, scored two goals in the first round of Cup against Victoria de Coruña (8-0); and in one of Champions League goals against Young Boys in Switzerland (1-4).
Six goals equal to Joan Capdevila, who scored in the 08-09 and 09-10 seasons, in which the Catalan winger scored five goals in the League and one in the Champions League in the first season, and five goals in the League and one in the UEFA in the second. While Arruabarrena scored his six goals in the 01-02 season, distributed all of them in the League championship. Following the line of goalscoring left backs, the next to score the most goals in a season is Juan Pablo Sorín, who was capable of scoring four goals in the 04-05 and 05-06 seasons.
Adding up all the seasons, the defender with the most goals is Joan Capdevila with nineteen goals in four seasons, followed by Arruabarrena with fourteen goals in seven seasons and Mario Gaspar’s eleven goals in thirteen seasons.