Aug 25, 2021 at 01:19
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Soccer can be many things, but nobody would understand it without goals. Scoring is synonymous with excitement, spectacle, joy in the stands … and the Spanish League is going through one of those complicated moments in which even stigmatization is at stake. What do you ask the Italians and the label of the catenaccio (the anti-football in the 90s) that haunted them for so long. Today, Serie A is enjoying a more than enviable moment of health, being the domestic competition of the major leagues that sees the most goals with an average of 3.6 goals per game.
Spain appears in the queue of the big competitions as a place where there are goals and you have to be careful because once you get the label it is difficult to get rid of it. It is true that without Madrid and Barça things could be much worse, but the teams seem to have imitated the style of ‘unocerismo’ which led Atlético de Madrid to be champion last season. In the 20 league games we have played this season, we have only seen a total of 38 goals or, in other words, 1.9 goals per game.
The figure is nothing short of alarming seeing that competitions such as Serie A double us in their scoring production and then both the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 exceed three goals on average per game, while the Premier League averages 2.95. The absence of Messi could be one of the great reasons why the Spanish League has declined in its scoring performance, but that would not be listening to the truth either. Barça, without going any further, averages 2.5 goals per game, while Real Madrid stands at 3.5. The greats carry the scoring weight in our competition, being they the authors of 31.6% of the goals, while the rest of 18 teams have achieved 69.4%.
In global figures, La Liga accumulates 38 goals in 20 games and of those goals 12 have been by whites and culés and the remaining 26 came from other teams. Thus, four goals have come from the boots of Levante and Sevilla, while Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid add three. Mallorca, Valencia, Cádiz and Betis remain at the average of one goal per game, while the rest of the remaining teams remain below one goal per game or have not even seen the door.
The numbers are alarming for a Spanish football that also suffers from having the League where less effective game time is played. According to a study by Stats Perfom, the average duration of a match in Spain is 50 minutes and 57 seconds with the ball rolling on the field our country having an average of five minutes of play less per game than the rest of the major leagues. The interruptions have been accentuated in recent months to such an extent that many games seem like a headache with constant falls, protests and loss of time.
Spanish football must take action or it will begin to be labeled in a way that many do not want to hear. Undoubtedly, it is time to speed up the game, avoid wasting time and promote a more direct and effective football. In Italy it took 20 years to remove the ‘San Benito’ from the catenaccio. We will see which one will hang us from continuing on this path.
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