The wall of Imanol Alguacil

La Real is the fourth team in the First Division that receives the fewest goals in the League, one per game, 21 in 21 goals. It is a figure conditioned by the blackout suffered by the txuri urdin squad in three games of those 21, in which they received 11 goals, four from Barcelona (4-2), four from Betis (4-0) and three from Villarreal (1 -3). That is, Imanol’s team has conceded 52% of their goals in just three duels out of 21, in 14% of their league matches.

And it is that in the vast majority of games, Real has shown itself to be an extraordinary team in the defensive aspect. The data is overwhelming. He has not conceded a single goal in 11 of the 21 games, 52% of the total. Only Sevilla (12 clashes with the virgin goal) surpasses him in this section. Last year, during the 38 duels, Real managed to complete 14 without having to pick up a single ball from their net. It is the best record since promotion and it will be possible to clearly overcome it if they maintain this line of solidity in the League, as they say, for example, in the last two games, against Celta and Getafe at home.

In fact, Remiro He is the First Division goalkeeper who has kept his bow clean on the most occasions, 10 in the 18 league games he has played (55%). Ryan he did it on one occasion, against Celta. After Remiro (10), they are Bono (9), Rollers (9), Herrera (8) and Unai Simon (8).

The second best record since the ascent

The 21 goals conceded by Real in 21 games represent their second best figure since promotion in 2010, only surpassed by last season’s. A year ago, the txuri urdin had only regretted 19 ‘txitxarros’ against after the dispute of 21 games. These are very low figures, unusual, because the average number of goals received at this point since 2010 is 29.9.

In the 2017/18 campaign, with Eusebio On the bench, Real had a whopping 40 goals conceded at this point, almost twice as many as today.

Two seasons ago, for example, he had the same points as now, 34, he was also sixth, but with seven ‘txitxarros’ against more in his bag.

It goes down because it does not mark

The reason why Real continues to fall in the table – it is now sixth, two points behind fourth and six behind third – is because of its inability to score goals. They are only 22 in 21 games, at 1.05 per game, a meager baggage for a team with such potential.