Oblak, the wall of LaLiga

Jan Oblak continues to make history at Atlético de Madrid and in the competitions he goes through. The goalkeeper, winner four consecutive years of the Zamora award, recovered the bolt of his goal in El Sadar to reach 100 goals to zero in League. A feat that gains weight considering that it only took 182 games to do it, 43 less than a Miguel Reina that until now was the goalkeeper who had needed fewer matches to reach that centenary of goals to zero (the third is Víctor Valdés with 230).

And that, strangely, the goal has had a hard time getting more than usual. Since February 8 closed the League matchday with a 1-0 victory against Granada, match 99 in the competition unbeaten, Valencia (two goals), Villarreal (one), Espanyol (one), Seville (two) and Athletic (one) they had managed to pierce their goal. But against Osasuna he returned to his usual tone. To know the size of the record achieved by Oblak, you just have to go to its statistics. In the Slovenian's 182 league games have netted 100 times and conceded 116 goals, an average of 0.64 goals per encounter.

Going a little deeper, Oblak debuted in La Liga on March 21, 2015 in a 2-0 victory against Getafe, taking advantage of Moyá's injury in the Champions League match against Bayer Leverkusen where the Slovenian had to leave from the bench to end up being the hero stopping a shot in the penalty shootout. Until that moment his role had been summed up in a bad match in the Champions League against Olympiacos (defeat 3-2) and the Copa del Rey, until falling in quarters against Barcelona after having eliminated Real Madrid in eighths.

But since that day, in which the spotlights were concentrated by a Fernando Torres who scored his first return goal in the League, Oblak took the reins of the goal as the starter, when there were already certain sectors that criticized the 16 million paid to Benfica for his services (the most expensive LaLiga goalkeeper at the time), to become the best goalkeeper in the world. Between that match against Getafe and the one played last Wednesday in El Sadar against Osasuna, Oblak has played a total of 16,307 minutes in the League in which he has received those 116 goals, that is, they have scored a goal every 140.5 minutes: a complete game, half of another and five minutes of a second part. Stratospheric numbers and hardly comparable for an Oblak that is already a sign of Atlético and a living history of LaLiga.