Borja Mayoral, the desired

While the template Getafe enjoy the vacation Christmas, Borja Mayoral he practices alone at Fernando Santos de la Parra Sports City. He is working overtime to leave an injury to his left knee and obey the orders of José Bordaláswho need a forward to end the azulón team’s alarming drought.

Borja Mayoral’s return is the most desired by the coaching staff and within the club’s offices south of Madrid. Signing in the winter market is a small luxury for Getafe and the best acquisition to end one of their shortcomings is at home. For Getafe, Borja Mayoral It is synonymous with a goal.

The attacker trained at the youth academy real Madrid It is crushed every day to reach the month of January in the best possible conditions. He does not hide and shows his work openly on social networks. This Friday, he showed off several photos in which he appears to be handling the ball, dodging cones and doing sprints. And all, under one message: “If you stop, you will lose.”

The truth is that when Borja Mayoral quit last season with ten games left, Getafe lost. And many. Your data, up to the last match in which you participated, against The Palmsthey are wonderful. Exactly, he scored 15 of the 36 goals the team accumulated Bordalas at that point in the course. That is, 41.6 percent of all Getafe goals.

Mayoral suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee and had to undergo surgery. He returned this season after missing the first four games. He accumulated some moments, specifically 130 minutes, in matches against Betis, Leganés, Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​Alavés and Osasuna. He scored a goal, from the penalty Leganesand then returned to his injury. And until now.

When Mayoral entered the infirmary in his deadly battle The Palms On matchday 27 of last season, Getafe’s remaining goals were shared between several players: Mason Greenwood, scored six; Nemanja Maksimovic and Jaime Mata, four; Juanmi Latasa, two; and Stefan Mitrovic, José Ángel Carmona, Carles Aleñá, Gastón Álvarez and Óscar Rodríguez, one.

Of all those players, only one is still alive at the club: Alena. The rest left. green wood in Marseilles; Kill in Las Palmas; Maximovic in Panathinaikos; Latase in Valladolid; Oscar in Leganés; Mitrovic in Ghent; Gaston al Al Qadisiya; and Carmona to Seville.

The president of Getafe, Ángel Torresare unwilling or unable to keep those in debt. Others such as Mata or Maksimovic, who are at the end of their contract, did not renew. And with Gastón, he made money (13 million euros). At the same time, in the winter market, Enes Ünal, another professional goal scorer who had just recovered from a long knee injury, also left. Bournemouth left Getafe another 16.5 million euros.

In an instant, Getafe’s entire goal was gone. Above all, due to the absence of Mayoral, who left two more relevant data at the end of the course: despite missing ten games, he is the leading Spaniard in the League with 15 goals; and his goals represent 35.71 percent of Getafe’s total, the highest number of dependence in the entire championship before 35.56 of Budimir is new for Osasuna or 35.38 Alexander Sörloth for Villarreal.

To make up for all the bags of goals that no longer enter Getafe’s statistics, Ángel Torres and his team, along with the director Ruben Reyes On top of that, they went out in the summer market to sign two forwards, both on loan: Bertug Yildirimfor Rennes, and Alvaro Rodríguezfor Real Madrid.

So far, none have given the expected results. Álvaro has two Liga goals and Bertug one after 18 games. Bordalás warned in the summer that they needed more pieces to complete a list of attackers with little elite experience. Vertugat 22 years old, has accumulated 28 games in France’s Ligue 1; Alvarofor his part, 115 minutes in the ten games in which he participated in the first team of Real Madrid.

Bordalas regretted the little experience with First Division with almost all the acquisitions that Getafe faced in the summer (Juan Berrocal, Álex Sola, Christantus Uche, Peter Federico or Jirí Letácek). And, for this reason, after being defeated by Girona on the thirteenth day of the match (0-1), they asked for signatures in the winter market.

“It’s evident because we’ve played thirteen games and we can see what the team needs. I don’t know if the club will be able or not to make an effort. It is clear that the team needs six top-level signings to try to help the team regain its best level,” he said.

Ángel Torres responded with a lapidary phrase: “Against the vice of asking, there is not giving.” A few hours later, at the Christmas lunch with the media, he launched another strong one: “With Borja our problems end, that we don’t have a goal. It’s a bad streak. We don’t have many goals, but they don’t score many goals against us.

The fact is that Getafe has scored only 11 goals, the same as in Leccehe Southampton and the Le Havrethe worst in these statistics of the five major European leagues. And to fix that problem, his ‘signing’ is working tirelessly to return in January. It is nothing but Borja Mayoralboth developed a brutal scoring streak last season and that is needed now more than ever to lift a team depressed by its lack of goals.