Lewandowski and Benzema challenge for the cheapest Pichichi of the century

Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema will play Pichichi the cheapest in this 21st century in the last seven days of the League. The Polish Barcelona striker, currently the competition’s top scorer, has 18 goals in 31 games, followed by the Real Madrid striker, who despite missing a third of the championship, has 14 goals.

Passed 16 years since Primera’s top scorer has been so miserable goals at this time. It was the Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy who scored 16 goals with seven games to go and ended the season with 25. Since the World Cup, Lewandowski His performance dropped alarmingly. Only five goals scored in the League this year 2023, so their statistics dropped. He started the league with an average of 1.08 goals per game. Now, in the last 15 meetings, that average score dropped to 0.33. The Pole, accustomed to surpassing 30 goals in the Bundesliga with relative ease, which he has shown in the last three seasons, is experiencing a moment of drought in Barca’s team that scored 1-0 and it is difficult for him to conclude games in the scoring aspect.

Against Rayo Vallecano, the kulé striker managed to score in the last part of the game after taking the ball in the ball, although his play was quite discreet. Data confirm that the Pole feels more comfortable outside Camp Nou. Since the big date in Qatar, he has scored 10 goals with Barça in all competitions. He scored nine of those goals away from home, and only one at Camp Nou against Cádiz in the 22nd round. If he were to continue with this average, Lewandowski would end the league competition with a number close to 21 goals, which is the least since the 2001-2002 season, when Diego Tristan he achieved 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 Butragueño scored 19 goals for Real Madrid. However, the Pichichi with the lowest figure in history is Guillermo Gorostizastriker of Athletic Club in the season 1931-1932, who was the first scorer of Primera by scoring only 12 goals, although there were fewer teams then and fewer games were played.

Messi and Christian they monopolized the table of the best scorers of the League for more than a decade. Without them, the competition was left without strikers who can surpass the 30-goal mark. Only Luis Suarez In the 2015-2016 season, he managed to break the hegemony of the Argentine and the Portuguese, scoring no less than 40 goals. An extraordinary figure for the Uruguayan, but the kind that Messi and Cristiano did without pulling their hair out. In fact, the man from Rosario holds the record for the number of goals scored in a season in the League, 50 of them.

Europe shows them

Last season, already without Messi, Benzema he was the top scorer with 25 goals. This course, the math suggests the figure will be similar or even lower. It is also surprising that players like Enes Ünal or Joselu, who play in teams where survival is the primary goal, are among the best scorers in the competition. The discreet records of Lewandowski and Benzema contrast with the rest of the auctioneers in Europe’s major leagues. Haaland it is a special case. The Norwegian striker has 33 goals and is on his way to breaking all scoring records in the English competition. In his sights is Andrew Cole, the Newcastle striker who scored 34 goals in the 1993-1994 season. Especially Ivan Toney, the third top scorer in the Premier League, has 19 goals, one more than the top scorer of the League.

in Ligue 1, Kylian Mbappé He has 22 goals, followed by Jonathan David (21) and Alexander Lacazette (20). They were also surpassed by Serie A, where Victor Osimhen Collect 21 goals with Napoli. The lack of rams characterizes the League on the Old Continent. In the case of the Pole, for the first time in his career, it becomes common for him not to score. His team fell in Vallecas, but the one from Warsaw changed the dynamic