Borja Mayoral (23 years old) continues to vindicate himself in Rome. The Spanish striker scored again last Thursday in the Europa League to match a match that had been very difficult for the capital team. The Young Boys had taken the lead and Mayoral scored a psychological goal before the break to calm the waters. Finally, the Italian team took the victory 3-1 and the Spanish striker again made his mark, this time in the 60 'he was on the field. Mayoral seizes the opportunities. He took a step forward during Dzeko's illness, he is not satisfied with his replacement situation and his numbers contrast with those of the white forwards in all competitions. Mayoral has scored 4 goals with an xG (expected goal metric) of 2.6 according to the site specialized in football data analysis fbref. That means that he is also more than precise in his relationship with the goal. Mayoral scores a goal every 121 minutes with Roma, is close to 0.75 goals per game played after having played 486 minutes. The attacker signed a two-year loan in Italy after Real Madrid did not have him.
Let's analyze the performance of the white forwards. The immediate thing would be to observe the differences with Jovic, but there is no color there. Luka Jovic (22 years old) still blank this season. At least with Madrid. 208 minutes in which he has not managed to change the fate that pursues him since his signing for the whites last summer, the lack of goal. The green shoots grown with Serbia (3 goals and 2 assists in the last break) have not been reciprocated in the Spanish capital. In addition, having tested positive for COVID-19 has deprived him of the opportunity that Mariano has enjoyed, that of covering Benzema's loss while he was injured.
Benzema (32 years old), for his part, is the white '9', the great leader of Zidane's attack And since Cristiano left, the goal is Karim's business. But nevertheless, a start to the season marked by lack of aim weighs down his numbers, because, although he accumulates 6 goals (in addition to 3 assists), he did not see the door until his fourth game of the season (closed the 0-2 against Levante). From there, they sharpened their aim, until an injury cut off his scoring progression. Indispensable for ZidaneHence, your minute load makes you drop average. Even though he walks away from the goal every 147 minutes that he scored last season (27 goals in 3981 minutes). Now he is by one point every 167 minutes, below Mayoral. In his discharge it must be said at least that analyzing the data there is no deficit in terms of precision. He has scored six goals and has a xG of 6.
Mayoral also leaves Mariano badly
From ostracism to the bench and, from there, to ownership. The casualties of his attack partners helped Mariano (27 years old) to dress short again. Zidane gave him the keys to the white attack in the absence of alternatives and the Spanish-Dominican did not take long to see the door (Two minutes later he scored Villarreal in his first game as a starter). Fantastic average, so far. From there, 244 minutes in which he has failed to claim again. Now, with Karim back, he loses focus again. He is on a goal every 260 minutes, although he has taken advantage of what little he has had in terms of shot since fbref gives him an accumulated xG of 1. Real Madrid, in general, is moving with little success to goal. Thus, for example, in La Liga he adds 16 goals while the expected goal metric based on shots is 18.1.