ANDn the last leg of the championship, Umar Sadiq has tightened the fight for the Pichichi Trophy. The ‘gunslinger’ from Almería is the one with the sharpest aim. He is the fittest striker in the Second Division. His numbers support him, as he has scored seven goals in the last six games, with a coefficient of 0.58% throughout the season. Some records that none of his competitors have achieved and that have catapulted him as one of the serious applicants.
He has scored seven goals in the last six games!
He is going straight towards the Trophy, from which he fell three goals short last year, but it will not be easy for him. And it is that he has a handicap with respect to his rivals. He has been called up again by Nigeria, previously he has already missed four matches for the African Cup, and will miss another match. It will be low against Girona to play the World Cup qualification.
The battle to become the Pichichi de Segunda promises… and nobody said it was easy. The fierce fight to get the trophy awarded by MARCA as the top scorer in the category is being one of the hardest-fought. It had been many many years, a total of 29 !!!, that such an even dispute had not been seen in the history of the Silver Division.
Sadiq’s double that his team did not take advantage of…
Three players co-lead the classification of the highest scoring players. This is the case of Stoichkov, Stuani and Borja Bastón with 16 goals each. These are followed by Sadiq and Rubén Castro with one less goal. For many days these are the five killers who are running as serious candidates to opt for this award, although we must not forget Weissmann (13 peas) or Djurdjevic (11), among others. In fact, the latter was the second top scorer the previous year.
Aquino, Christiansen, Gálvez… in 92/93
Some numbers that show the tremendous equality that there is with 11 games to go before the end of the league championship. Something that already happened, at this stage of the season, in 92/93, when the goal difference between the top scorer and the other four players who followed him was one goal. And it is that Aquino (Mérida) had 15 goals, one more than Gálvez (Mallorca), Ballina (Palamós), Christiansen (Barcelona B) and Pozo (Badajoz).
It was also very balanced in the 96/97 seasons, when Pauleta (Salamanca) with 14 goals was chased with one less by Turu Flores (Las Palmas) and Moisés (Leganés); or in 2000/01, when Salva Ballesta (Atlético) and Loreto (Murcia) only distanced Luis García (Tenerife) and Olivera (Sevilla) with their 15 goals, who had 14; or more recently in 2009/10, when those still active Jorge Molina (Elche, 14 goals) and Stuani (Albacete, 13) closely followed Toché (Cartagena), Pepe Díaz (Córdoba) and Marco Rubén (Villarreal B), with 12.
You already know what it means to be Pichichi
Two of the top scorers who lead the ranking You already know what it is to win the Pichichi Trophy. It is the case of Ruben Castrowho won it twice in the 2003/04 and 2014/15 seasons, and the aforementioned Stuani in 2019/20.
