The Catalan has 26 goals and ten assists and is 6 goals behind the stratospheric brand of the Italian American
Gerard Moreno does not rest . The Catalan forward plays and scores in Europe and, with just three days off, repeats in the League. Their numbers in 2021 are crazy only within the reach of the greatest in world football: 18 goals in 18 games. Messi, Lewandowski, Halland and Mbappé: the Villarreal forward rubs shoulders with them.
Against Levante, Gerard scored his twenty-sixth so much of the season to continue the best of his career. 20 of them carry their signature in the league, six in Europe. The figures of the striker of Santa Perpetua make his the second best in history, from the scoring point of view, of a footballer from the submarine. And he has plenty of matches left, with his current dynamics, to fight for said first place.
His goal at the Ciutat de Valencia served to overcome the 25 that the Uruguayan signed in the 2004/05 season Diego Forlan with the Villarreal shirt. In the same way, weeks ago it already exceeded the figures it reached Bakambu with 22 goals in the 15/16 season, and 21 by Turkish Nihat’s in 2007/08, 18 of them in the league and which helped the Castellón players reach the league runner-up.
Ahead of the current nine of “la roja”, only the brilliant records left by the Italian American remain. Giuseppe Rossi in the 2010/11 campaign. In his best season the elusive forward reached the 32 goals, thanks to the 18 scored in the league, 11 in the Europa League, and 3 in the Copa del Rey . It is the new challenge for Gerard, who has nine safe games ahead of him, which could be ten in the event of reaching the Europa League final, to break a new record.
Golean at home
Villarreal signed their sixth victory of this season in the league away from home, and all of them with the same common denominator: the win for Unai Emery’s team. In that sense there have been no half measures and when Villarreal has won away from their stadium has done it with tremendous forcefulness. 1-3 at the Getafe Coliseum, 1-3 at El Sadar in Pamplona, 0-4 in Vigo, 1-3 in Eibar, 0-3 in Granada and now 1-5 at the Ciutat de Valencia. The best news for the people of Castellón is that this coming Wednesday they will play again as visitors on the Alavés court
