The Betic forward Loren Moron maintains a curious statistic this season, which is turning out to be the worst of his career in the elite in terms of goals, since he has only scored one in 19 games -in the 5-2 defeat in the Camp Nou, in November-, although his irruption in the ownership has coincided with the best streak of results of the Real Betis in recent years, thanks above all to the defensive strength that the team has been showing lately, since it has only conceded one goal before half-time in the nine league games played so far in 2021 and then has been able to sentence many games in the final bars.
LorenCuriously, he has been a starter in all the League matches that Betis has played in 2021 except the one that faced FC Barcelona at Benito Villamarín (2-3), the only one that Pellegrini's have lost so far. anus. The others ended with six victories (against Huesca, Celta, Osasuna, Villarreal, Getafe and Cádiz) and two draws (against Sevilla FC and Real Sociedad). Loren has not seen a door in any of those games, in which his offensive contribution is limited to the penalty he caused on January 2 in the derby that allowed Canales to draw very shortly after the Sevilla players took advantage on the scoreboard.
So far this season Loren He has only scored one goal in 19 games and has barely enjoyed three other clear scoring chances in the course of all of them, having a very low shot average, of just one every two games, very few for a striker who is nevertheless performing. a good defensive job, lowering and holding balls out of the area so that they can be played by their teammates. In fact, Pellegrini has lined him up as a starter in eight of the nine league games played so far this year.
The first seven games of the season played by Loren, who could barely train in preseason because of the Covid, was always entering as a substitute with the score against and Betis ended up losing all seven. He made his starting debut on December 6 in Pamplona, where Betis won 0-2 with a goal from Borja Iglesias and another from Miranda -both coming from the bench- and ended the year 2020 playing another two substitute games, in the defeat against Granada and the 1-0 victory against Cádiz. In total, Loren played nine substitute matches and one starter game in LaLiga between September and December, with a balance of two wins and eight losses. In 2021 the tables have changed for Loren, who has six wins and two draws in the eight games he has played as a starter and only lost one, against Barça, in which he entered as a substitute.
On Monday Benito Villamarín visits Deportivo Alavés, the last team that Loren scored at home, last July on the penultimate round of the League, a match that Beis lost 1-2. Loren's last goal that earned Betis a point was the one he scored in Ipurua against Eibar (1-1) on October 4, 2019. Two weeks before he scored two against Levante at Villamarín (3-1, the another was from Borja Iglesias) and on August 3-1 he made it 1-1 against Leganés in 53 before Fekir finished the comeback in 61 '.
In his first half season – he made his debut in February – with Betis, Loren scored 7 goals, 6 in the next and 10 in the last, although only two in 2020. In the current season he has only scored one goal.