Three shots on target, two blocked between Juan Carlos Martín and the face of Jordi Calavera, and two out. Such is the offensive balance of Raúl de Tomás in the unfortunate defeat of Espanyol against Girona. A lack of effectiveness that is not lagging behind the rest of the team, who collected another 20 shots and did not score either, but that draws attention because it is the Second's top scorer, because it comes from a frustration that already manifested the previous day against Castellón and because link three league dates without scoring, in a team that depends –As happens to the vast majority– of his top scorer.
That Espanyol needs the goals of Raúl de Tomás is evidence shown by the numbers. Having played the 22 rounds, has 12 goals spread over ten games, in which Espanyol has added eight wins, one draw and only one loss (This one, precisely, against Girona in the first round). In the other ten encounters in which he has not seen a door, he has harvested the parakeet set six wins, two draws and up to four losses. In other words, chen he scores, Espanyol achieves 83.3 percent of the points possible –which, extrapolated at this point, would mean carrying 55 instead of the 45 reales–; when he doesn't score, he gets 55.5 percent, so he would have only 36 points without the goals of the Madrid.
And what is his current scoring break due to? Undoubtedly, ineffectiveness. Although it is true that he did not even finish off against Las Palmas, against Castellón he shot five times (two on target), at seven (and three on goal) on Saturday in Montilivi. This is, 13 shots (five on target) without a goal. An outrage considering that, until that moment De Tomás managed to convert one out of every four shots, 12 targets into 49 shots, so if you have not changed your aim would have accumulated another three goals in these days in which it has not 'wet'.
Another example of that wet gunpowder is that in none of the ten games in which he scored had he needed to shoot more than three times on goal and what in five of them, half, he made all the kicks that went between the three sticks: against Oviedo (in which he established a double), Ponferradina, Málaga, Fuenlabrada and Girona at the RCDE Stadium.
An aim that has been temporarily lost, which can be attributed to one's own obfuscation of wanting to mark and not achieve it or to a much more technical criterion, such as its location often remote from the area, which prevents him from reaching the auction as neat as he should, although this already happened to him when he did score.
The last goal for Raúl de Tomás was his goal against Almería, on December 20.
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Anyway, it is not the first but the second time this season that De Tomás has gone zero for three consecutive days. The previous bad streak began against Rayo Vallecano, who in addition to being his former team is the next rival, with whom he will try to remake himself. On the first occasion, after three empty games, the 'top scorer' chained five scoring. From Sunday it will be possible to see if history repeats itself.