By: Allan Napa Segura
Barcelona fights, supported by the best defense of the second stage (4 goals against) and in general, the strongest rear of the 2020 LigaPro tournament (17 goals received in 25 games), struggles to finish as leader of the second stage and thus define the title in round-trip finals with Liga de Quito.
But the main problem of the Canaries to be able to stay with the disputed phase is their little offensive power; he has 15 goals converted in the current one, his three center-forwards score sporadically and his top scorer is Damián Díaz (with 8 annotations), who does not play in the attacking position.
So far this season, internally, Barcelona has 38 goals and the production of three players – Jonatan Álvez, Cristian Cólman and José Angulo-, called to be the ones who record the most goals, is poor.
The Uruguayan Jonathan Álvez joined the bullfighting team in July 2019 until December of the current year. This season he has scored three goals; In other words, their contribution is 7.89% of all the goals that Barcelona has in the championship. And his monthly salary is $ 49. 940, according to the audit of the PKF firm, with cut-off until September 2019.
Colmán is one of the hires that were closed at the beginning of the year. The forward was on loan, for one season, from MLS’s FC Dallas with an option to buy. The Paraguayan has four goals with the yellow jersey, which means 10.52% of the club’s total so far in LigaPro.
The last gunner to join was the Ecuadorian Angulo, from the Mexican club Tijuana. The footballer arrived the previous July and his valid link is until June 30, 2021, with an option to purchase. El Tin has scored three goals in the Ecuadorian tournament, contributing 7.89% of the offensive production of the yellow team, to date.
In the order of attack, the contrast between Barcelona, which aspires to be a finalist, and Liga de Quito, which has already secured a place in an eventual final, is striking. The Albo team has scored a total of 54 goals in LigaPro and has the tournament’s top scorer: Cristian Martínez Borja, with 24 goals. The Colombian’s average, per game, is almost one goal: 0.96. Three attackers from Barcelona do not have even half of the striker’s goals.
If the production of the striker with more targets in the team directed by Fabian Bustos is compared with that of Pablo Repetto, the difference is abysmal. The Colombian accounts for 44.44% of the total of the Quito League campaign. Even if the percentages of the three Canarian attackers are added: 10 goals that are equivalent to 26.31%, Martínez Borja continues to contribute more to his club.
Can you have firm options to win a stage and a championship if there are difficulties in scoring?
In the history of national crowns won by Barcelona, except those of 1960, 1963 and 1966, which were championships of few parties (for example, 1960 had eight dates and the largest gun was the yellow Enrique Cantos, with eight targets), Canaries were never monarchs of Ecuador with such a low scoring level as the 10 goals distributed between three center-forward in 2020 when the national competitions had longer duration in terms of number of commitments played.
In the two-time championship of 1970 and 1971 Pedro Jet Álvarez and the legendary Alberto Spencer scored 14 and 14 goals, respectively. In the second two-time championship, that of 1980 and 1981, the Brazilians Víctor Ephanor and Alcides de Oliveira were crucial with 18 and 22 annotations, in that order. In 1985, the soccer player who scored the most times for 35-year-old Barcelona champion was Mauricio Argüello, with 11; citron is low, but higher than that completed up to now by Álvez, Colmán and Angulo together (10). In the last two stars of the 1980s, those who scored the most for Barcelona were Lorenzo Klinger (14) and Janio Pinto (13). In the last decade of the 20th century, bullfighters made three Olympic rounds and in each one their biggest breaker totaled more goals than the 8 that Kitu Díaz has today: 17 Rubén Insúa, in 1991; 24 Manuel Uquillas, in 1995 (he was the top gunner of the tournament); 18 Nicolás Asencio, in 1997, and seconded him with 12 Agustín Delgado.
Although it is true that having the best scorer of the season does not guarantee that a team will be champion, as happened to Barcelona itself in 1983, when the tremendous Paulo César scored 29; in 2003, with Ariel Graziani’s 23; and in 2008, when Pablo Palacios was the king of the goal with 20 goals, it is also a fact that it is more difficult to take a trophy to the club’s showcases with an almost harmless trident, like the one in 2020, and with 8 annotations made by who has the most goals in the individual list.
Barcelona SC, champion 2012
As for the first of the two cups that Barcelona won in the new millennium, the team led by Gustavo Costas won both stages of that 2012 championship to win the long-awaited star number 14. The bullfighters scored a total of 75 goals that year and they had the contest’s gunner: Narciso Mina. The Ecuadorian striker scored 30 goals, this means 40% of those scored by the club in that campaign. Mina broke the record of Brazilian Paulo César, in force since 1983, as the man who scored the most goals for Barcelona in a single season of the Ecuadorian championship (30 against 29 for La Bruja).
Barcelona SC, champion 2016
The crown number 15 of the bullfighting team was full of records. The cast led by Guillermo Almada became the team that won the most games (31), the most points (99) and scored the most goals (93) in one season. Jonatan Álvez was in the fourth box on the scoring table and was the team’s top net-breaker, with 20 goals. The charrúa contributed 21.50% of the total scored by Barcelona SC. Four years later, the history, the numbers and the contribution of Álvez in Barcelona are radically different. (D)
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