Josh Maja has scored 7 of his 13 goals this season with the Girondin jersey on penalties. The last was converted for the opener of his team against SC Bastia (2-0), Saturday during D30. The striker has thus maintained his immaculate record of 100% success in this exercise in 2022/23.
« I always felt ready to take penalties. Since I started playing football, I practice hitting them and I often shoot them, even though I had a different technique when I was younger. I have my technique and, for the moment, it works “, he confided to us during a interview last September.
Over the season, Jean-Philippe Krasso (ASSE) has also just scored for the 7e time on a penalty against Paris FC (2-4), but he had previously experienced a failure in his table during the previous meeting against Niort in the Cauldron (2-0).
Maja has Diallo in sight
Eight more days before the end of the Ligue 2 BKT championship, the two scorers have already reached a historic total of penalties converted. Since the Bordelais and the Stéphanois equaled the performance of the Dutchman Spierings with Téfécé two seasons ago this weekend, and did better than the van den Boomen (TFC)-Mendy (SMC) duo with five penos converted last season .
Au 21e century, there are even only two players to have scored more converted penalties in the same season: Habib Diallo (FC Metz, 2018/19) and Famara Diédhiou (Clermont, 2018/19).
Even if this season Alexandre Mendy is 5/5 in his penalty attempts with the Caennais, Josh Maja is he the only one who can still reach the total of the Senegalese who had reached it by signing a 100% success rate.
Top scorers on penalties over a season in Ligue 2 BKT (since 2001/02):
1. Habib Diallo (FC Metz, 13/14): 10 (100% success)
2. Famara Diédhiou (Clermont Foot, 18/19) : 8 (89%)
3. Josh Maja (FCGB, 22/23) : 7 (100%)
-. Jean-Phillippe Krasso (ASSE, 22/23) : 7 (87,5%)
-. Stijn Spierings (TFC, 21/22) : 7 (87.5%)
-. Andé Dona Ndoh (CN, 18/19) : 7 (77.8%)
-. Adama Niane (ESTAC, 16/17): 7 (77.8%)
-. Guillaume Hoarau (HAC, 08/09) : 7 (-)
-. Robert Malm (GF38, 04/05) : 7 (-)
Concerning the clubs, Bordeaux presents overall a perfect 8/8 on penalties this season, since in his absence (he was a substitute), Maja saw his captain Yoann Barbet convert the only penalty for which he was not responsible. in Ligue 2 BKT (vs Paris FC, 2-1, J24). Girondins who are also outstripped by the 12/12 achieved by FC Metz during the same 2018/19 season.
