Maxi Gómez has a double challenge against Athletic tomorrow

Eibar-Valencia, 0-0, match with hardly any shots between the three clubs, those who need victory like eating, A ball falls to Maxi Gómez in the small area...And the Uruguayan opts for yield it in a defective way a partner leaving the attack to nothing.

The sequence was probably imagined by Maxi in his head a thousand times after the game, as it was strange to see a 'killer' as he yield a ball while being in the small area and more with the few occasions that he has enjoyed lately.

And the thing is that the Uruguayan is going through one of those striker crises from which only one goal can get him. It is no longer that after a phenomenal start, with three goals in the first four matchdays, I have not dialed again, is that since the match against Betis on October 3, he has not had a single shot between the three clubs. Neither Asenjo, nor David Soria, nor Courtois, nor Oblak nor Dimitrovic had to intervene to prevent a goal from the striker, with Joel being the last to save a shot.

The next goal that he will be able to try will be that of Athletic Club, which is not that he has been particularly good at it. Till the date, the Bilbao goal is, together with Osasuna and Huesca, the only one in the entire first division that has not been able to drill (removing Elche and Cádiz which he has never faced). The problem is that in order to score goals you have to have opportunities to do so, something that is not happening with the charrúa.

Certainly since the defeat in Elche the team clicked and their style of play became much more compact, forcing the forwards to remain further from the goal. In Eibar that style acquired its maximum splendor forcing the forwards to go down almost to the midfield to receive and in the case of Maxi to prolong long balls and even to play heeled to the band, what left him with hardly any prominence face to door except on the occasion already mentioned.

The worrying thing about the crisis that Maxi is going through is not that the rival goal net resists him, it is that he has no occasions to test the keepers. Certainly when he has had them he has shown cash, their three goals in nine shots they leave no room for doubt. However, in the process that lasts his crisis, his two attack partners have had key moments: Vallejo scored in Vitoria and Gameiro still has in the retina the two hand in hand that escaped him in the Basque Country.

In any case, as he learned ACE, the coaching staff's concern with this Maxi drought transcends the individual aspect and focuses on the fact that the che barely generate dangerous occasions, something that it does concern the technician and what he has been working on this week, aware of the absence of chances for his team in recent days.

However, the good thing about football is that it always gives another chance and Maxi will have it tomorrow. The charrúa counts with the total confidence of Javi Gracia, what do you consider key despite the shortage of goalscorer since he thinks he is contributing a lot in almost all facets of the game, and therefore everything indicates that it will start from the beginning. Its objective is clear: break the scoring drought and add one more victim to his list of LaLiga teams, from which only two clubs would escape.