EI Atlético has made a huge turnaround in its performance compared to last season. The rojiblanco team has left the transition year behind and has become the most regular team in LaLiga, both in their game and in results. And in greater mattress jump can be seen in the scoring ability. With Luis Suárez in point, the rojiblanco team adds 40 goals in the first 19 league games who has played, when a year ago, at this point, the figure was 22. Almost double the goals in a team that now plays more offensively, accumulates more troops in attack and tirelessly seeks the rival goal with longer and longer combinations.
The Uruguayan is the Pichichi of LaLiga with 14 goals in 16 games, when Atlético’s top scorer of all last season was Morata with 12. Suárez has only needed 20 shots on goal to reach the figure. But, in addition to the ‘9’, the whole team is accompanying. So much so that Atlético is the most effective LaLiga team on goal and the second best among the five major leagues, only surpassed, and by a very small margin, by Bayern Munich.
According to data from CIES Football Observatory, the rojiblanco team sees goal every 5.4 shots, where 58% of them go on goal. The average distance of the shots is 17.9 meters, the furthest among the top ranked. Bayern, one of the deadliest teams in the world and against which Atlético himself suffered his forcefulness face to door In the Champions League (4-0 at the Allianz Arena), he is the leader of the table, but with an increasingly smaller margin. The Bavarians manage to score every 5.3 shots attempted, of which 63% go on target and occur with an average distance of 16.5 meters.
Regarding their great rivals for the league title, Simeone’s men stand out notably on Real Madrid (one goal every 7.2 shots) and even more against Barcelona (every 7.7 shots). Simeone’s men need to finish twice less to score and they are also the team with the fewest goals in the competition (ten goals against). A forcefulness that Atlético suffered from last season, where it generated opportunities, but did not convert them and is exploiting this course.
Beyond the rojiblancos, The effectiveness of Elche stands out on the list. Despite occupying the penultimate place in LaLiga, the Elche team is the fourth best of the five major leagues in goal-to-goal shooting. He scores every 5.9 shots, although he has only scored 16 goals in the competition. The team led by Jorge Almirón defines, but little arrives. It is only improved in that facet by the Bayern, Atlético and Union Berlin.
Oblak, the opposite side
If Atlético is the team with the best aim, in goal he has an Oblak who has the best percentage of saves in LaLiga (Yoel has 100% saves, but because he has only played 29 minutes with Eibar). Slovenian goal stops 83.3% of the shots fired at him, overcoming Bono (77.9) and Ángel Jiménez (77.7). Despite conceding four goals in the last three games, two of them last weekend against Cádiz, Oblak is heading to his fifth Zamora with only 10 goals against.