Independiente and the strange problem of having the top scorer in the Professional League

Independiente has problems closing its parties. Several points have slipped through his fingers so far this year for failing to define the situations generated and for making major mistakes in his own area. And part of the explanation for this lack that comes from before the beginning of the Ricardo Zielinski cycle is due to the fact that heThe goals at home for Red seem to belong to just one player: Martín Cauteruccio.

In Avellaneda they celebrate by having a nine that goes straight into the front door and often screams. However, the expert goalscorer is the one who agglomerates the greatest number of conquests against the fence of others in this Independent that never ends up finding regularity.

With his goal in the draw against Lanús last Saturday, Caute reached 10 league goals and is one of the top goalscorers alongside Mateo Retegui (Tigre), Michael Santos (Talleres) and Pablo Vegetti (Gimnasia La Plata). He has 11 in total since one was added for the Copa Argentina.

In the tournament he scored 10 of the 17 goals that the Devil has. The others who scored are Matias Gimenez (2), Baldassarre Barcia, Sergio Ortíz and Nicolás Vallejo converted 1. The others were against rivals’ own goals (Ángelo Martino against Talleres and Zaid Romero against Estudiantes).

The Uruguayan shows validity at 36 years old. He has a goal average of 0.63 per game in the red shirt, has directly participated in 64% of his team’s conversions and has scored six in his last seven games. He kicked six penalties and scored them all.

The problem is that if he doesn’t do it, Independiente will find it very difficult to score. In the 19 games he played in 2023, he only managed to score more than two goals per game once: the 3-0 win against lowly Ciudad de Bolívar for the Argentine Cup.

There are players who have struggled with goals like Matías Giménez, who puts a lot of momentum even if he can’t find good aim. And to this is added the complication due to the generation of situations in the face of wrong decisions in the last meters of the field.

Independiente are the team with the most draws in the professional league together with Colón and Atlético Tucumán, with nine matches. but in six of those draws he started in the draw and was unable to keep the result in his favor. Undoubtedly the Russian knows that this is one of the main issues to improve in order to be calm and get more points that will allow him to take off from the bottom of the standings.