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.
The goals of Alexander
IsakIn addition to showing the great effectiveness of the Swede in the minutes he has played, they have had the great virtue of not falling on deaf ears. Only the goal he scored in Leganés, with which Real went ahead in Butarque in the League, did not serve the txuri urdin squad, which, thanks to the contribution of the Swedish targets, has added 20 points in the League.
On the other hand, the pass to the Cup final, to a large extent, bears the signature of IsakNot in vain did he score in four of the seven rounds, being especially inspired by the finals: his five goals in the round of 32, eighths and fourths, with the star performance of the Bernabéu, made him the king of the KO tournament.
Isak scored seven goals before confinement. Above all, Vigo's 'partita goal' (0-1) stands out, but it also contributed to the wins in Cornellà (1-3), El Sadar (3-4), Mallorca in Anoeta (3-0) and the derby. (2-1). He also scored the goal of the draw against Barça at home (2-2) and the reference of the defeat against Leganés.
It was more in the final stretch
The break seemed to impair his powers somewhat but it was more and in the final stretch of the League he reappeared in his best version. Against Levante, in La Nucía, a heel genius was marked, Ibra, and before, against Espanyol in Anoeta, he scored the winning goal that certified the comeback against the bottom team (2-1), a victory without which it would have been impossible to qualify for the Europa League.