Rayo Vallecano is left without a goal in 2022

The new year is bad for you Vallecano Ray. All the good feelings that he transmitted in the last weeks of 2021 is being unable to transfer them to this 2022, in which for the moment, of five league games, he has not won any and in four of them he has not managed to score.

The Madrid team is in a bad dynamic of results that, together with the bad social climate that is experienced with the fans facing the president, Raul Martin Presamake the environment by Vallecas is not the most suitable to enjoy a season that, no matter what happens in the coming weeks, will be historic only for the milestone of playing the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

In the league the reality is very different. Rayo does not carburete in the domestic championship and the Vallecas stadium, which until December was the European stronghold, with the team registering the best local numbers of the main continental championships, has changed that condition.

In 2022, Rayo has played five league games and has not won any. Four defeats and a draw is the poor balance recorded by the team led by Andoni Iraola in the last month and a half, in which the results have curbed the euphoria that was experienced around the squad, although not inside the locker room.

The lack of goal worries in Vallecas

What worries the team the most is the lack of goals they are having. In the last five games, Rayo has only scored one goal, against Betis, on January 9. He was left without scoring against Atlético de Madrid, Athletic Club de Bilbao, Celta de Vigo and Osasuna, which means only one goal in 450 minutes of play.

In addition, that only goal scored was the work of right back Iván Balliú, so the Frenchman Randy Nteka, the Spanish Sergi Guardiola, the Colombian Radamel Falcao and the Senegalese Mamadou Sylla, the four forwards of the squad, seem to have wet gunpowder.

The accumulation of games in recent weeks has caused Rayo to be noted with some physical wear. After the march in the winter market of five footballers, and only one reinforcement (Sylla), the squad has remained at twenty-one troops, a number that seems short to face a final stretch of the season in which the goal of salvation is still is not achieved.

Next day’s match against Elche, at the Martínez Valero, is key for Rayo. First to reverse the dynamic and second as it is a direct rival for salvation.

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