Badajoz is the highest scoring team in Spain

When the halfway point of the season is over and the winter champions already have the honorary trophy in their bags, the numbers forget the anecdotal to become corporeal and real. Atleti has half the league in their pocket, while Madrid and Barça fight so that they do not complete the other half with such haste. Y it's those three teams that come to mind when you think about which outfit has the sharpest tusk in Spain. Suárez, Messi, Benzema and company terrorize rival defenses, but they are unable to take Simeone, Koeman or Zidane's men to the top scorer in our country. That honor goes to a team that captains its group a couple of categories below, CD Badajoz.

The Badajoz average 2.2 goals per game. 26 scored in 12 games. The LaLiga leader pursues him with 2.1 (40 in 19) and the Catalans complete the podium with an average almost traced to the mattress with 2.05 (41 in 20). The next? Gimnàstic de Tarragona and his 26 goals in 13 stakes (2 on average). Another modest that sneaks among the greats, because Madrid closes this peculiar top-5 with 1.8 (36 in 20). In addition, it should be noted that the sixth also wears white and only his last name changes, since Castilla, a Madrid subsidiary, reaches 1.6 goals per game (16 in 10).

Best Second B team

No one can deny that it is surprising to see a Second B topping this type of classification, but this Badajoz by Fernando Estévez has become a steamroller and the best leader in the entire bronze division. The 12 games mentioned have resulted in 10 wins, a draw and a single defeat, in the derby against Mérida. The 31 points are the best mark at this point of the five groups, with their five respective subgroups. However, the shapes and forcefulness may surprise, but not the heights, since the Badajoz 2020-21 was designed for high heights. Promotion is the goal set by a Joaquín Parra who already confessed to AS last year, when the black and white were still alive in the Cup (only Granada, in extra time, could with them), that his intention when he took charge of the Badajo ship was none other than “take Badajoz to the First Division”.

That ambition is confirmed in the emergencies that accompany the club. Last year, Mehdi Nafti was sacked after a poor second-round start, with the team battling for fourth place.. Munitis was the substitute, but an irregular preseason cost him his job a week before the starting gun. Estévez from Granada received the gift. A gift full of pressure and expectations, but also with wickers to meet the objective of the promotion, with Dani Aquino, Àlex Corredera and Gorka Santamaría as maximum exponents of this attacking football that reigns in group 5. An Aquino, a former Atlético de Madrid, among others, who arrived in the winter of last season and who this year is the club's top scorer with 6 goals, ahead of the 5 of the midfielder and the 4 of the forward.

'New' New Nursery

That ambition that drives this project with a superior category aroma came with a gift from Kings under his arm. Parra, in an interview for the Extremaduran newspaper 'Hoy', acknowledged that his intention “is to have the sports city for the next season”, just as he stated that “the future is to roof the stadium, to cover the entire part of the public stands”. That talk was due to a reform to the stadium that 'MisterChip' echoed, describing the home of Badajoz as “First Division stadium”. Kitchen, leisure area, jacuzzi, gym … and a carpet for grass that turned the Nuevo Vivero into a stadium of many stars. In fact, the club's largest shareholder is confident of being able to host the Spain-Georgia qualifier for the 2022 World Cup, a fantastic way to put the value of the strong investment made. Now it's time for all these green shoots to take root. For now To think of a goal is to think of Badajoz.