The defeat of Getafe in front of Villarreal (1-2) was not good news for the team led by Quique Sanchez Floresstuck in his fight to get out of relegation and with few things to celebrate after a bad result: only Enes Unalthanks to his numbers, he appeared as a green shoot for the blue box.
The Turkish striker scored his fifteenth goal of the course. In the second part, he took advantage of an assist from the Uruguayan Mathias Olivera to hit the Geronimo Rulli with an accurate right hand that certified an irrefutable fact: he became the second top scorer in the championship only behind Karim Benzemawhich accumulates 24 hits.
Unal he left behind the fourteen goals from Vinícius (Real Madrid), Juanmi (Betis) and Raúl de Tomas (Espanyol), although both Vinícius and De Tomas still have to play their games this Sunday. But, meanwhile, the Turkish striker is already shining despite his team’s defeat.
BETTER THAN BENZEMA IN 2022
But if you delve into that data, you will find others of greater substance. One is very revealing. In LaLiga Santander, if only the year 2022 is counted, Enes Ünal is the top scorer in the championship, even ahead of Benzema. The Getafe player has scored ten goals to the nine of the Frenchman and the eight of Barcelona’s Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
And that until the game against Villarreal accumulated two games without scoring (Mallorca and Real Madrid) to which he added two other internationals with Turkey (Portugal and Italy) in which he could not see the goal either. He got his nose back to beat Benzema in 2022, but he couldn’t prevent the fall of Getafe, who lost almost six months later at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum.
Exactly, the last time that Getafe gave up a loss at home was on October 25, 2021, when they lost 0-3 against Celta, a team that they will face the next day in Balaídos in the hope of breaking another important negative streak : they have not won away from home for 358 days and are, together with Fürth of the Bundesliga and Belenenses of Portugal, the only club in the major European leagues that has not won away from home this season.
ONE STEP AWAY FROM ROBERTO SOLDADO’S RECORD
They do not seem very encouraging data to visit Balaídos in just three days with the descent in the neck. If Cádiz beats Barcelona this Sunday, the distance will be reduced to three points. That will be the mattress that Quique Sánchez Flores’ men will have for the last six games of the season.
But among so many unoptimistic statistics, those offered by Enes Ünal unleash a smile of optimism in the Getafe fans, who are anxious to see how their player equals another historical record, that of the club’s all-time top scorer in the League in a single season .
The Turkish striker, who has hit a high in his valuation (from 9 to 18 million euros in just four months according to the Transfermarkt portal), has one goal left to equal the 16 that Soldier scored in the 2009/10 campaign. At Getafe they dream of reaching that figure in Balaídos to break a terrible streak away from the Coliseum and take a giant step towards salvation.
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