Sorloth-Dovbyk, the fight for the most open ‘Pichichi’ in recent years

MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Villarreal’s Norwegian striker, Alexander Sorloth, leads the ‘Pichichi’ trophy classification with 23 goals with one match remaining in LaLiga EA Sports after scoring a ‘poker’ against Real Madrid, although Artem Dovbyk (Girona), with 21 goals, and Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), with 19, still have some options to win the individual trophy.

With all the fights at a collective level already decided, the focus of the last day of LaLiga EA Sports shifts to the individual awards. In those, the fight for the ‘Pichichi’ trophy is one of the main attractions. In it, Sorloth, who dealt the trophy a great blow with his four goals against Real Madrid on matchday 37 of the league, was at the top of the solo scoring table for the first time this season.

The Nordic’s 23 goals, the same number with which the Polish Robert Lewandowski achieved the ‘Pichichi’ last season with FC Barcelona, ​​have made the Norwegian start the last 90 minutes of the League being the favorite to lift the trophy. His moment of form, scoring 15 goals in the last 12 days and his advantage of two over Artem Dovbyk, his closest pursuer, make it seem difficult for him to escape even if he did not manage to score against Osasuna, a team against which he has only scored one goal in their four matches.

The main alternative to Norwegian seems to be Ukrainian. The Girona striker, who received the news of Sorloth’s four goals against Real Madrid with surprise, has been the player who has led the fight for the top scorer trophy in the last stretch of the campaign.

Furthermore, the international is the eighth debutant to reach the figure of 20 goals in his first season in LaLiga EA Sports in the 21st century and, if he achieves a hat-trick against Granada, in addition to overtaking Sorloth in the number of goals , would achieve the fourth best scoring record of a debutant in this century in the First Division, only surpassed by Cristiano Ronaldo (26), Ruud van Nistelrooy (25) and Diego Forlán (25).

Finally, the third in contention in the fight for the ‘Pichichi’ trophy is Jude Bellingham. The Real Madrid midfielder has been the man of the season in LaLiga EA Sports and, with his 19 goals, he needs heroics in the form of ‘poker’ in the last match against Real Betis, in addition to ensuring that his rivals do not find the net.

However, although it seems unlikely that the Englishman will be the top scorer of the season, his 19 goals are the third best record by a Real Madrid debutant in the 21st century, and the best scoring figure by a pure midfielder. since the 91-92 season, in which Madrid player Fernando Hierro also scored 21 goals.

A ‘PICHICHI’ THAT IS QUOTING DOWN

In the event that Alexander Sorloth fails to score two goals, it will be the second consecutive season in which the top scorer in the First Division does not reach the figure of a quarter century, a fact that has not occurred for two consecutive seasons since the 00 -01 and 01-02 with Raúl González (24) and Diego Tristán (21) respectively, they will not achieve a figure greater than or equal to 25 goals.

Furthermore, if Bellingham fails to score in Real Madrid’s last league match against Betis, only two players would reach a figure greater than 20 goals, making it the fourth year of the last five in which this has happened.

Although not everything is negative when it comes to the ‘Pichichi’, since, in the event that Alexander Sorloth or Artem Dovbyk end up being the top scorers in the competition, a player who does not play in the ranks of Real would win the individual tournament. Madrid or Barcelona, ​​a fact that has not happened since Diego Forlán did it in the 2008-2009 campaign with Atlético de Madrid.

2024-05-22 15:35:26
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