Alex Isak broke his streak of 146 days against Villarreal without scoring a play goal, precisely since he scored against Unai Emery’s team on December 18 of last year, in the match at Anoeta.
Isak first saw how Sorloth was able to make it 0-1, when even two full minutes of play had not yet passed, since he stood alone against Rulli, but the former txuriurdin goalkeeper took out a very good right hand, when the Norwegian tried to beat him with a spoon shot, and deflected it off his goal.
The Swede provoked againjust three minutes later, that the Argentine shined, by deflecting with his left foot a close cross shot that was going in the direction of the local net. He also looked good on another shot that he made a little later, which Rulli again rejected.
Isak sure turned the jinx around in his head again that seemed to haunt him, especially when Villarreal leveled the game, first, and tilted it in their favor, later, making it 1-0 shortly before the break.
Only six goals, but he has recovered sensations
Single the 19 txuriurdin He will know if he left the locker room thinking that this bad streak could end at La Cerámica or that it might not end in all of LaLiga, but the truth is that, after two left-footed shots by Rico and Merino that went wide of the mark, took advantage of the fact that Pau and Rulli did not understand each otherin a center from the right, that he pushed the ball into the back of the net.
Isak marked his first goal in play in LaLiga in this 2022, 146 days after the last one, against Villarreal in the first round, with only one penalty goal, against Espanyol, in the following 15 days, in which he had suffered great saves from the rival goalkeepers, several balls to the wood and a good number of shots with poor aim.
On the 19th he added his sixth goal in the domestic championship, very far from the 17 of the past, but at least he is finishing with very good game sensations, being the most dangerous realist in the last visits to Levante and Villarreal.
