Real Madrid's goalscoring crisis analysed
They have gone five hours without scoring a goal
Cristiano Ronaldo brought Real Madrid 50 goals a season. They don’t have him and they don’t have that power any more, a terrible loss for a team that has gone dry. It’s over five hours since they netted a goal, a barbarity for a team that has always been about attacking.
It’s actually 12 years since that happened. Fabio Capello’s Madrid in 2006-07 went three league games without scoring, but made up for it with a sturdy defence. Julen Lopetegui doesn’t have that. Instead Madrid have let in 11 goals in 10 games, scoring 17.
And their last goal was actually validated by VAR, Marco Asensio scoring with the officials only later confirming it was onside.
It was in the 41st minute of the win over Espanyol, and 319 have passed since. A 3-0 defeat by Sevilla, a 0-0 draw with Atletico and a 1-0 defeat at CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.
Madrid started the season reasonably well, 12 goals in 4 games, but they were against lesser teams, bar 2 against Atletico in the European Super Cup - although they lost that 4-2.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s shadow is growing. Lopetegui doesn’t seem to trust either Mariano Diaz or Vinicius Junior, while Madrid can’t trust Bale to stay fit - he went off against Atletico and missed the CSKA game.
Madrid are in a goalscoring crisis.
