While most of the teams in the lower zone of the League do the permanence accounts based on adding and subtracting points, in Vitoria everything passes through two proper names.
If
Joselu
and
Lucas Pérez
are correct in front of goal, the salvation of Alavés is almost guaranteed.
Otherwise ...
Abelardo
knows it now
as
Machín
knew it before
.
Also, last season, first
Asier Garitano
and then
Muñiz
.
Four coaches have been on the bench at the Mendizorroza stadium in the last year and a half and all of them have entrusted their fortunes to the most decisive pair of strikers in all of Spanish football.
Because, yes, there will be better attackers in the League, but no duo has an impact on their team even similar to that of the two Galician wingers from Alavés.
In these last two years, Lucas and Joselu have scored
58.5% of their team's goals
.
In other words, 31 of the 53 last so many garters in the babazorro box have been signed by one of the two, 16 by Joselu and 15 by Lucas.
As can be seen in the attached graph, no league couple comes close to them and only
Iago Aspas and Santi Mina
-another couple of Galicians- in Celta have an incidence greater than 50% and there are four couples below 30%.
On average, the two best scorers of each team add up to 38.6% of the total goals, 20 points less than the Albiazules rams.
All these numbers reflect the importance of both in the existence of Alavés, but also the lack of punch from his teammates.
Last season they scored 11 goals each and the next on the top scorer list were
Aleix Vidal and Rodrigo Ely
, with two each.
In this course at least they are finding the help of
Édgar Méndez
, who already has three goals, one less than Lucas and two less than Joselu.
The other six goals scored by Alavés have been distributed, one by one, among many other players:
Ely, Ximo Navarro, Pina, Rioja, Deyverson and Borja Sainz
.
“It is very difficult to score 22 goals between the two of them like they did last year.
For a team like Alavés it is not easy at all to have two footballers who reach such figures, "Abelardo recently praised them.
They are two footballers who are united by the origin, the goals and also their crossed lives.
Lucas, from A Coruña, two years older than his partner, was looking for opportunities through half Spain first, half Europe later, until 17 goals at Deportivo earned him his signing for Arsenal.
His replacement at Riazor was precisely Joselu, from Pontevedra trained in the Celta and Real Madrid quarries and born incidentally in Germany, where he forged his career after leaving the white quarry.
This Saturday both forwards have the challenge of making their debut as albiazules in front of a Barcelona that carries abundant defensive problems and that looks askance at their match on Tuesday against PSG.
"Neymar is not an Alavés player, it's a question for Monday,"
Koeman answered when asked about the Brazilian's absence.
Today his concern does not speak Portuguese but Galician.
And twice.
The Dutch coach, who regretted the
loss
of
Araujo
, will be able to count on
Sergiño Dest and Braithwaite
.
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