Villarreal CF striker Gerard Moreno faces the opportunity to be the top national scorer in the league championship for the first time in his sports career and also become the first to do so with the Villarreal shirt.
Thus, the Catalan striker will start the final stretch of the season tied for 11 goals with Roger Martí of Levante and Lucas Pérez of Alavés, attackers who can also be joined by Ángel, the Getafe striker, who with 10 goals is also fully involved in this fight.
A challenge for which Gerard Moreno has already fought in his football career, since in the 17-18 season he reached the figure of 16 goals in the ranks of Espanyol in the league championship but the 22 goals of Iago Aspas with Celta gave him they left in the second position among the national scorers of that course.
Moreno stated at a press conference this campaign that achieving that goal is “a possibility that motivates, but does not obsess” and that he is “happy” for the goals scored, since “they help the team achieve its goals,” he acknowledged.
Villarreal has never had a national striker who would end up being the league's top scorer and has in the figure of Joseba Llorente his national striker who has scored the most goals in a championship, reaching 15 points in the 08-09 campaign .
The Castellón club does have a striker who ended up being the top scorer in the league, as was the Uruguayan Diego Forlán in the 04-05 season, in which he also ended up being the European Golden Shoe of that year.