Isak Show

The conclusive statements of Alexander
Isak, in full effervescence after the undoubted success achieved in the Metropolitano, ensuring without a doubt that it remains in the Real, are one of the best news that the follower txuri urdin could receive now that it is time to build a new project.

Summer is time to excite fans with new faces but, especially in this summer in which there are so many doubts surrounding football, and in its format from September, the certainties are equally well received. Or better. In that chapter of contrasted arguments few handles the Real better than the performance of a Alexander
Isak whose first campaign as txuri urdin has been quite a show. The impact the Nordic attacker has generated in his debut season is comparable to that achieved by some of the best foreign forwards in the history of the club and their numbers, in some sections, even better.

Stellar in the Cup

Just the big John
Aldridge exceeds 16 official goals in his first year as a Real player who has achieved Isak in the campaign just ended. The Irishman went up to 22 goals in 34 games, scoring seven more than the nine goals of Isak in the League, but scoring one less, six, in the Cup than the seven made by the swift attacker of Solna in the KO competition, in which it reached its peak.

In these more than 30 years that Real have been signing foreigners, there are several forwards who went above the 10 goals scored in their first season at Anoeta. Meho
Kodro (13), Willian
Joseph (12), Charles
Candle (12), Dalian
Atkinson (12) or Gica
Craioveanu (11) they saw the door more often than Isak in the League, although they did not present a business card as complete as that of the Swede thanks to the fact that many did not even make their debut in the Cup. Willian
Joseph, with two more goals in the KO tournament for a total of 14, he approached the numbers of Isak on the 16/17.

Without being an indisputable owner

The great difference in the case of the Swede, who puts even more value on his great first year, is that the majority of Real scorers of the last three decades had the undisputed starting status that he has not enjoyed Isak. The point of origin Eritrean has only formed in the ‘eleven’ in 19 of the 44 games he has played, only playing in all four of them in all of the minutes. The Swede has not even played half of the 4,050 official minutes played by Real and, despite having only been on the pitch for 48% of real playing time (1,974 minutes), his effectiveness has been brutal.

IsakIn fact, he has averaged a goal every 123 minutes played, which even improves the 139 ’average he needed Aldridge to score a goal in his first year. Big stars of the club like Kodro (173 ’), Kovacevic (299 ’) or Nihat, although the Turkish arrived in the middle of the season, they present worse records than a Isak that has amazed the txuri urdin fans and that the next campaign should confirm everything good done in the current one.