Mir, goals against suspicion

Rafa Mir sentenced Sevilla’s cup pass to the round of 16 in Zaragoza with a typical 9 goal, by breaking the offside in a good inside pass from Ocampos and calmly beating Ratón. It was the ram’s eighth goal this season in all three competitions, second in the KO competition. In the League he accumulates 5 in 17 games and in the Champions League, one more.

The Murcian scores a goal every 199 minutes that he plays with Sevilla, that is to say, each something of more than three games that accumulates in his boots. A figure that, without being brilliant, does become acceptable for a 24-year-old forward who has just landed in the great elite after his first LaLiga adventure with Huesca, last year.

The numbers, therefore, somehow dismantle the constant suspicion in the Seville environment about the performances of Mir, some highlighted by mistakes against the rival goal as happened in Granada, when Sevilla suffered one of their only two league defeats in the first round.

More or less the same happened to Youssef En-Nesyri in his first months as a Sevilla player, after arriving from Leganés in January 2020. The Moroccan forward, who is now in the Africa Cup and for whom Sevilla has rejected offers from the Premier, he scored six goals (4 in the Cup, two in the Europa League) in his first six months as a Sevilla player. Two less than Rafa Mir, whom Monchi continues to seek competition these days at the attack point.