Adjectives to designate Gerard Moreno are starting to run out. The top scorer in Villareal history added another casualty to his hunting roster this season after scoring against Seville last weekend. This goal makes the Sevillian team the 17th team against which he has scored this season in the league.
At a game at the end of the season, the second-highest goalscorer in LaLiga will not be able to improve this balance sheet, because theAtlético de Madrid and the FC Barcelona resisted him. These numbers were only exceeded by two men in the Spanish Premier League in the 21st century: Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo messi. They are the only ones to have refueled (19/19) after scoring against all the teams they have faced in a season. The Portuguese achieved this in the 2011-12 season, while the Argentine only did so a year later.
When we analyze the victims the Catalan “serial killer”, Grenade appears as its favorite prey. The attacker of the yellow submarine only needed 60 minutes to achieve a triple and sink the Andalusian team.
Magré the fact that this last decade contains the greatest number of different teams which conceded goals by the same player, the data of BeSoccer Pro highlight the figure of Diego Milito who in the 2006-07 season, had shaken the nets of 17 teams under the colors of his former club Zaragoza.
This number of victims, currently established by Gerard Moreno, Luis Suarez placeholder image also achieved it with the jersey of the Barça in 2015-2016. Alone five Spanish league forwards have managed to do this feat till date.
If we take these statistics into account in the five major championships, we find in the “top 5” names like Ciro Immobile, who scored against 18 different teams during the 2019-20 Serie A season with Lazio (all except Roma), and Edinson Cavani, who with the jersey of PSG did not succeed in making the nets tremble Toulouse.
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