The Spanish Football League has been experiencing a crisis in scoring unprecedented goals since the 2006-2007 season, and this crisis is twofold: the first goals scored by leaders of the list of goals by Lionel Messi, and the other is the total goals scored by the teams in the League.
The Barcelona captain and his historical scorer tops for the 14th consecutive season the tournament's top scorer with only 14 goals, one goal difference from the French striker Karim Benzema, the lowest of the top scorer after 23 rounds in La Liga since the 2006-2007 season.
Real Madrid striker Diego Milito was top of the list with 13 goals, two ahead of Real Madrid striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, but the latter scored 14 goals in the last 14 rounds and ended the season with the league leader with 25 goals.
Going back a little bit to the past seasons, we see that:
This period of last season Messi had 25 goals, 18 goals for the 2017-2018 season, and 23 goals for the 2016-2017 season. As for Luis Suarez and Cristiano Ronaldo, they had 24 goals during the 2015-2016 season.
And the crisis does not stop at the scorers. Rather, all La Liga teams suffer from scoring goals, as they scored 583 goals until round 23, the lowest score in 13 years.
This number is less than five goals from the same period last season, and it seems clear the impact of the departure of Ronaldo and its negative impact on the outcome of the League goals.
The numbers indicate that the competition between Messi and Ronaldo in the championship did not come down to six hundred goals for this period of the season.
With the departure of the "Don" to Juventus, the outcome of the goals in the League decreased to less than six hundred goals, and this is what happened before Ronaldo came to the 2009 League, in the 2007-08 season (593 goals) and 2006-2007 (540 goals).
Moreover, the League occupies the fourth position in terms of the goals scored in the five major leagues.
After 23 rounds, the French league teams scored 573 goals, ten less than the League.
The Premier League teams scored 635 goals, the German League 610 goals in 21 rounds, and the Italian League tops the list of the top five teams with 671 goals.
In the Golden Boot race, the Liga attackers are suffering in this award, and since 2008-2009 all award winners have been playing in the Liga.
Diego Forlan (Atletico Madrid) and Messi won the award six times, and Ronaldo three times, one of them in association with Luis Suez, who won the award twice.
It is noteworthy that Messi has only 28 points, a big difference from the Italian race leader Chiro Imobelli, who has fifty points.