Espanyol plays without an audience but with a record of attendees

Many are the keys to this Espanyol leader of the Second Division. What the scoring ability of Raúl de Tomás, with 20 goals and an aspiring top scorer. Wave defensive consistency, in a record start and also in this current stage, with two goals conceded in five games. Also the second line. And, in that aspect, determining is the way how the parakeet team produces the goals. Espanyol is, by far, the team with the most assists. Just the season in which other attendance, that of the public to the stadiums, has disappeared because of COVID-19.

With which Keidi Bare handed Nico Melamed warm in the goal of the victory against Leganés, last Sunday, the Albanian signs up for the roster of 14 blue and white footballers who have provided a goal pass. 13 leads Adrián Embarba, the one who most in First and Second Division, followed by six from Javi Puado, three from Sergi Darder, two from Wu Lei, David López, Raúl de Tomás, Nico Melamed, Adrià Pedrosa, Dídac Vilà and Óscar Gil, and one by Fernando Calero, Óscar Melendo, Leandro Cabrera and the aforementioned Bare. In total, there are 40 assists that are distributed among the Espanyol players.

From far away they follow him Mallorca, with 31 assists, and Almería, with 29. Not in vain, the persecutors of the parakeet in the classification table do not have outstanding assistants, since their leaders in that sense are, respectively, Dani Rodríguez, with four, and José Carlos Lazo, with six. Some figures that show that Espanyol not only scores, but also makes their goals.