Leandro Cabrera has closed this 2021-22 financial year as a true irreplaceable behind Espanyol. With 3,330 league minutes played, the Uruguayan central defender took part in 37 of the 38 games, also scoring two goals and seeing up to seven yellow cards. was the footballer most used by Vicente Moreno and Luis Blanco throughout the course.
These data place the Uruguayan international among the LaLiga Santander footballers who accumulated more minutes along the course. In fact, only one other outfield player, also a center-back like Cabrera, played as many minutes as the Espanyolistas: the San Sebastian Le Normand.
With 3,330 minutes played, he was the most used parakeet and the field player who spent the longest time on the pitch, tied with Le Normand
Both, with those 3,330 appearances on the pitch, were surpassed only by Ledesma (Cádiz), Oblak (Atlético), Dituro (Celta), who played the full 38 games (3,420 minutes) and by David Soria (Getafe), who reached the 3,415. All of them, goalkeepers.
The statistic that did end up leading the ‘boss’ of the Blue and White defense was that of the average clearances per match. According to data provided by LaLiga, ‘Lele’ Cabrera cleared an average of 5.8 balls per gamebeating the rest of the defenses in the tournament.
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The Valencian player appears behind him Alderete (with 5.5 clearances on average), the ‘lion’ Inigo Martinez (5.3), the grenadier German Sanchez and the alavesista Florian Lejeune (with 5.1 each) and getafense Jorge Cuencawith 5 clearances per game played.
In number of clearances he surpassed Alderete, Iñigo Martínez, Germán, Lejeune and Jorge Cuenca
an authentic bulwark of the parakeet behind that contributed, especially in a more than satisfactory first half of the season, to the return of the Spanish to the highest category will be settled with a permanence that, in light of the final stretch of the championship, tasted little like the perica parish. But that is another story.
James Miserachs
