Just in time, after overcoming COVID-19, Adrián Embarba recovered in the first round to meet up with Rayo Vallecano. To recall his seven seasons in Vallecas and especially his records from last season, 11 assists (in addition to seven goals) that led him to sign for Espanyol and finish the course being the second highest passer even having left in January. Now just a year later the end will receive the Ray at the RCDE Stadium leading a very different statistic.
Embarba, much to his regret, has become the player in the Second Division and in all of Spanish professional football –equal only by Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema, bigger words– who starred in the wood with the most shots of the rival goal. With that of last Saturday in Montilivi against Girona in a thread that had surpassed Juan Carlos Martín, takes five this season, ahead of the four by Gerard Moreno and Iñaki Williams and all three, among others, by his teammate Javi Puado and Almería striker Umar Sadiq. The parakeet attacker also ran into the posts against Albacete, Mirandés, Leganés and Cartagena.
Embarba's folly – or his fine aim, which you have to have to hit the stick – also raises the Espanyol as the professional team, together with Real Madrid, who has smashed his dreams with wood more times this season. In until He has shot to the post 12 times, 11 for Oviedo and Zaragoza, and 10 for Atlético de Madrid, Valladolid and Leganés. In addition to the five clubs from the winger and the three from Puado, at Espanyol Wu Lei (twice), Raúl de Tomás and Lluís López have had this luck.
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With so much wood, and despite the fact that he has five goals this season with Espanyol, He has not been able to mark Embarba since last November 7, in front of Lugo. Y, with five other assists, none ends in a goal since December 2 in Cartagena.
Despite his undeniable weight in Vicente Moreno's team, he is far from those digits, 11-7, for now. He left Rayo a year ago to join Espanyol. He did it after the 23rd day, exactly the same time that now the Vallecanos will visit Cornellà. He has a whole world ahead of him to reverse the figures, it will be enough to redirect his pulse a couple of centimeters.