Although the victory against Atlético Nacional, on Saturday, allowed him to reconcile with his fans, Millonarios is still looking for solutions to make up for the lack of goals that cost him so dearly in the semifinal of last semester and in the first two games of the 2022-II League. Up front will be one of the most vulnerable defenses of the year, that of Envigado, starting at 8:05 pm, with Win Sports + TV.
Criticism towards Alberto Gamero’s team began to take another direction: from the lack of a scorer, some began to point out the lack of game generation and that the team’s way of playing had become repetitive.
Gamero defends his game idea to the death. “When they say the team was predictable, I would believe it if the team didn’t create scoring options. What we need is to put it. We are creating. We are going to find a medium-low block team and hopefully we can open that arch quickly so that Envigado proposes something different to us, define as quickly as possible, ”said the DT this Thursday at a press conference.
The figures that defend the idea of Gamero
The figures seem to prove Gamero right: in the three games he has played, the team has made an average of 19.3 shots, of which 5.6 have been on goal. It is the highest number of the five tournaments in which he has been in charge of the team. Of course, the number of deflected shots almost doubled compared to last semester: 11.6 against 6.6.
Interestingly, the lowest figure was that of the semester in which he reached the final, 2021-II: 3.96 shots on goal per game. But the conversion percentage was the highest of the Gamero era: 34.7 percent of the shots on goal ended in a goal. Very high, compared to 22.4 last semester or 17.6 of the first three dates.
Last semester, Millonarios had a low average number of goals scored: 1.08 per game. In the previous three semesters he had not dropped below 1.3 and even, in the 2022-II League, he had 1.73 goals per game.
In search of a gunner who missed last semester
In that quota he always had one or two effective players: Ayron del Valle, Cristian Arango or Fernando Uribe. In the case of the last two, they had double-digit figures: Arango, 10 in 2020 (counting the elimination group) and Uribe, 12 in the first half of 2021 and 11 in the second.
In the first half of this year, that scorer did not appear, and Diego Herazo barely scored six goals, half, for example, of those scored by Uribe a year before.
Without moving much in the market, Millonarios hopes that this quota will begin to be covered by Luis Carlos Ruiz, who already scored two, but needs backup.
“This team goes out to propose everywhere; sometimes we score goals, sometimes we don’t, but this is our model”, Gamero said after beating Nacional. And that’s where he is, in consolidating the way of playing to go for the star.
Jose Orlando Ascencio
Sports Sub-Editor
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