[Sport] Leganes Resurrected Resurrected as a goliad Guiana

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After winning 16 games and drawing another six, Club Deportivo Leganés is in fifth place in LaLiga SmartBank with 54 points and in playoff positions for promotion to LaLiga Santander.

Asier Garitano, the coach of the ‘cucumber’ team, has returned to the entity to try to achieve the goal of the team returning to compete in the highest category of Spanish football. Since he took over the reins of the club on matchday 23, replacing José Luis Martí, he has managed to add 20 points out of 33 possible, resulting from having achieved six victories and two draws. The only defeats of the Butarque team, since then, have been against FC Cartagena 1-0 on matchday 27, which broke the streak of five consecutive games beating their rivals, against Fuenlabrada on matchday 30 and against RCD Mallorca 1-0 in the past matchday 32.

The team has managed to score 35 goals, which places them in eighth place in the ranking of teams with the most scorers, with the same goals scored as Real Oviedo. By contrast, with 26 goals against, they become the fourth squad with the fewest goals conceded, behind RCD Mallorca with 20 and RCD Espanyol and Real Sporting de Gijón with 21.

It is a team that fails very little when it comes to combining between them and therefore in the creation of plays, with a percentage of accuracy in passes of almost 75%. Most of these passes take place in the rival area, an unequivocal sign of the offensive character of the team with 64.07% of shipments in the opposite field.

On the other hand, if something characterizes the Madrid team, it is the ability to regain control of the ball with up to 1,890 recovered possessions. In addition, the team has a physically very powerful squad, which has managed to win 1,839 duels, of which 37% have been aerial.

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Defending the goal we find Iván Cuellar, the player of the team that accumulates the most minutes in his boots, specifically 2,430 that correspond to his 27 titles. He has managed to stop ten balls that were struggling to get into the goal, of which one of them, executed from the maximum penalty. Diego Conde and Asier Riesgo, with three and two games as starters respectively, have relieved 'Cuéllar' in 15% of the matches played.

At the rear, we find four great protagonists: Sergi Palencia, Rodrigo Tarín, Javier Hernández and Ignasi Miquel. The first three accumulate more than 1,900 minutes played while "Miquel" has participated in 58% of the team's total minutes. It is also important to highlight Kenneth Omeruo and Unai Bustinza, who without being the ones who have competed the most minutes in LaLiga SmartBank this season, their performance is frankly good. In fact, the Nigerian defender is the biggest recuperator of the team that ‘Garitano’ coaches with 35 possessions.

In the engine room, the following midfielders stand out: Rubén Pérez, is the team's conductor, one of the footballers where the Leganés game passes. 'Pérez' is the top passer of the 'cucumber' team with 1,094 completed passes. His namesake Rubén Pardo, who is signing a season to frame, is also paramount. The footballer from Logroño is the midfielder who has played the most minutes with the team, specifically 1922 minutes, and with four assists he is the player who has made the most goal passes on the team. Pardo has also been named Best Player of LaLiga SmartBank in the month of February. Gaku Shibasaki the third half with the highest% of minutes played, 1668 to be exact, in 18 starts out of a total of 26 games. Luis Perea and Javier Eraso are the following midfielders with the greatest presence in the eleven throughout the season, both with values close to 1000 minutes of performance in the competition.

As for the last of the lines, the indisputable protagonists of the offensive or the attack of CD Leganés, are the forwards Sabin Merino, the team's top scorer with 8 goals; Borja González, leader of the team in shots, with 18 shots between the three suits and, finally, José Arnáiz, who not only completes the rams' trident with the highest number of minutes played this season, but also stands as the second highest dribbler with 37 feints, only behind Rober Ibáñez with 39. These last two are positioned with 5 and 4 goals, as the second and third top scorer for the Blue and White team. At this point, it is necessary to mention that the striker from Utrera, Juan Muñoz, despite not being one of the players with the most games played, is placed fourth in the team's top scorers with 3 goals in 534 minutes.