Diogo Jota hasn’t loved a incredible begin to this new Premier League season, with solely one purpose and one help coming his manner from Liverpool‘s opening 4 league fixtures.
The previous Wolverhampton Wanderers ahead would additionally frustrate these with a Reds persuasion within the Champions League not too long ago, because the misfiring Portuguese attacker may solely muster 23 touches of the ball in opposition to AC Milan, along with his teammates all fortunately singing off the identical hymn sheet in any other case in an thrilling 3-1 away win.
The goal-shy nature of Jota’s early season performances means even one notable former Reds dud is at present outperforming him, regardless of the one-time Liverpool flop actually struggling throughout his temporary stint at Anfield to seek out the again of the web.
Iago Aspas’ switch to Liverpool
Iago Aspas would hyperlink up with the Liverpool ranks again in 2013 with a status for being a potent purpose machine in his native Spain, netting 12 Celta Vigo targets from 34 La Liga appearances throughout his swansong season for his boyhood employers, to then make the big leap to England.
That soar would show to be an excessive amount of for Aspas to take, with the attacker identified to Liverpool followers now as a wasteful finisher from his temporary however troubled time on the membership, versus the lethal and instinctive striker they thought that they had obtained for a low £7.6m charge.
Aspas would see his Reds spell go him by, with solely one purpose and one help registered from 15 appearances earlier than he was shipped out to Sevilla on mortgage, after which discovered his manner again to Celta in 2015.
Very similar to different main switch blunders within the striker division on the time, which included Mario Balotelli and Rickie Lambert failing to ever settle sporting Liverpool crimson, Aspas simply could not deal with the immense stress on his shoulders of taking part in for the Premier League giants, however has since consolidated his standing as a prime striker in additional snug environment in Spain having left for £5m.
Aspas’ numbers again in Spain
Amazingly, Aspas is in an unique membership with Lionel Messi with the previous Liverpool dud very a lot now a Celta icon.
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From 499 video games to this point for the La Liga outfit, Aspas has 207 targets and 81 assists subsequent to his title, along with his output throughout the infancy of this season to this point bettering that of Jota’s again at Anfield.
Aspas vs Jota (24/25) | ||
|---|---|---|
Stat | Jota | |
Video games performed | 6 | 4 |
Objectives scored | 3 | 1 |
Assists | 2 | 1 |
Photographs per recreation | 2.0 | 2.8 |
Scoring frequency | 156 minutes | 287 minutes |
Stats by Sofascore | ||
The 37-year-old is not displaying any seen cobwebs for Celta this season to this point, with 5 purpose contributions registered from six video games just one off matching Luis Diaz’s targets and assists tally for Arne Slot’s males too, while beating Jota’s quantity by three.
That is the case regardless of the veteran centre-forward making an attempt fewer pictures per recreation in comparison with his Portuguese counterpart this marketing campaign, as Jota continues to be wasteful for the Reds, and Aspas continues to be a distinction maker so late into his taking part in days for his facet.
Liverpool would love to show again the clock and see if issues may have turned out in another way if the then nervous attacker was given extra time to acclimatise, along with his stint on the membership solely lasting a breakneck 15 video games.
However, it may effectively simply be that Aspas is a pure match at Celta over taking part in within the hustle and bustle of England, because the 37-year-old strives to maintain up his electrical La Liga kind, while Jota appears to spark into life over the video games to come back.
