Lewandowski and Benzema dispute the cheapest Pichichi of the century

Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema are going to play the Pichichi cheapest of this XXI century in the last seven days of the League. The Polish striker for Barcelona, ​​the current top scorer in the competition, has 18 goals in 31 games, he is followed by the Real Madrid striker, who despite missing a third of the championship, has 14 goals.

Have passed 16 years since the top gunner of the First Division carried such a poor number of goals at this point. It was the Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had 16 goals with seven games to go, and finished the season with 25. Since the World Cup, Lewandowski Its performance has dropped alarmingly. Only five goals scored in the League this 2023, and his statistics have plummeted. He started the League averaging 1.08 goals per game. Now, in the last 15 meetings, that scoring average has dropped to 0.33. The Pole, accustomed to exceeding 30 goals in the Bundesliga with relative ease, as he has shown in the last three seasons, is experiencing a moment of drought in a Bara team that has gone 1-0 and is having a hard time closing games in the scoring aspect. .

Against Rayo Vallecano, the striker managed to score in the final stretch of the match after picking up a rebound in the area, although his game was rather discreet. The data also confirms that the Pole feels more comfortable away from the Camp Nou. Since the big date in Qatar, he has scored 10 goals with Bara among all competitions. He has sealed nine of those goals away from home, and only one at the Camp Nou against Cádiz on matchday 22. If he continued with this average, Lewandowski would end the league competition with a figure close to 21 goals, being the lowest. since the 2001-2002 season, when Diego Tristan he scored the same amount with Deportivo to win the Pichichi.

To see a lower recent figure, we would have to go back to the 1990-1991 season, when Emilio Butragueo scored 19 goals for Real Madrid. However, the Pichichi with the lowest figure in history is Guillermo GorostizaAthletic Club striker in the 1931-1932 season, who was the top scorer in the First Division scoring only 12 goals, although at that time there were fewer teams and therefore fewer games were played.

messi and christian They monopolized the table of top scorers in the League for more than a decade. Without them, the competition has been left without any strikers who can overcome the 30-goal barrier. Only Louis Surez In the 2015-2016 season, he was able to break the hegemony of the Argentine and the Portuguese, scoring no more and no less than 40 goals. An extraordinary figure for the Uruguayan, but one that Messi and Cristiano used to do without breaking their hair. In fact, the man from Rosario holds the record for the most goals scored in a season in the League, with 50.

Europe portrays them

Last season, already without Messi, Benzema He was the top scorer with 25 goals. This course, mathematics suggests that the figure will be similar or even lower. It is also surprising that players like Enes nal or Joselu, who play in teams that have salvation as their primary objective, are among the top scorers in the competition. The discreet records of Lewandowski and Benzema contrast with the rest of the auctioneers in the major European leagues. Haaland it is a separate case. The Norwegian striker has 33 goals and is on his way to breaking all goalscoring records in the English competition. In his sights is Andrew Cole, a Newcastle striker who scored 34 goals in the 1993-1994 season. Notably Ivan Toney, third top scorer in the Premier, has 19 goals, one more than the top scorer of the League.

In the Ligue 1, Kylian Mbapp He has 22 goals, while Jonathan David (21) and Alexander Lacazette (20) follow closely behind. They are also surpassed by Serie A, where Victor Osimhen Accumulate 21 goals with Naples. The lack of battering rams portrays the League in the Old Continent. In the case of the Pole, for the first time in his career it is becoming common for him not to score. In Vallecas his team fell, but the one from Warsaw changed the dynamics