Spectacular figures that forced Atletico to make a decision
Signing Artem Dovbik for him Atletico Madrid It’s inevitable. As we told you on Monday afternoon, July 22, Mattress Club has accelerated negotiations with Girona after already having Fine in the hand of a Ukrainian footballer.
Finally, Sports will pay 40 million euros for the player, last season’s top scorer League. The Madrid team is negotiating with the Catalan team how this figure will be reached. It is clear that it will be a very high fixed amount (more than 35 million) plus some easily achievable bonuses that will supplement the amount that Girona I mean.
He Sports He supported the issue because he had the idea of letting the player go for less than the Girona team was asking for. However, the fact that there is less than a month left before the start of the season and we have lost two highly rated forwards, Memphis Depay And Alvaro Moratathey did it in Metropolitan announced their intention to reduce the cost of the operation.
Data from Artem Dovbik.
He Sports The striker, who surprised everyone with his performance last season, is confident. It was a revelation Leaguebecame Pichichi in a campaign in which he scored 24 goals and provided eight assists. To understand the Ukrainian’s achievement, it is suffice to say that it has been 15 years since a player has scored a top score in a competition without a soldier in the lineup. real Madrid or Football Club Barcelona.
We are talking about a player for whom Girona paid 7.7 million euros Dnieper and now, at 27, he sells for more than three times that amount. A great business, no doubt. The idea Sports is that he signs a contract for five seasons, as he usually does in the case of such important contracts due to the financial amount and the sporting situation.
Data from Artem Dovbik.
GOAL CARES IN THE TABLE OF TOP
Company Optionspecializing in statistics on sports, especially football, has prepared a comprehensive report that helps us understand why Atletico Madrid He put in the effort he put in. He has 24 goals and eight assists in 36 league games. Harry Kane (44), Kylian Mbappe (34) and Cole Palmer (33) were more directly involved in achieving goals than Dovbik (32) in the five major European leagues in the 23-24 season.
Data from Artem Dovbik.
Simeone meets an attacker who is capable of holding the lead on his own as the only attacker ( Girona moved with the 4-2-3-1), but also that he is capable of playing in support of another striker (as he does in Ukraine). A player who has the strength to remove markers, the size to generate a second move, the ability to score a ball that hits high, has a good stroke…
Data from Artem Dovbik.
The data suggests that he is one of the most effective strikers in Europe, especially in this area. According to Optiontouched the ball 203 times in the opponent’s penalty area, ranking third among players Leaguefor the duet Real Madrid Rodrigo (222) and Vinicius Junior (221) 31% of total touches Dovbik occurred in the enemy zone, the highest percentage among players in the five major leagues Europe.
According to data from OptionAnd again, no player received more crosses in the game than Dovbik V League last season (40), which suggests he has a very good understanding of his teammates’ movements. We’ll have to see what happens in Sports He is able to help him with so many balls from the flanks and take advantage of that factor. Something that also matches his ability with the ball with his head, having scored only six goals. Sorlot (seven), surpassed him in this sense.
But he doesn’t live solely on his aerial game. He’s a top-10 player League both in terms of shots (85) and goals (46), with only Harry Kane (30.6) and Erling Haaland (29.3) has accumulated a total of “expected targets” higher than that of Dovbik (24.3) in five major leagues Europe.
Finally, it should be noted that according to the data OptionWhat Dovbik It was the second-best goal per minute average in LeagueHe scored a goal every 109 minutes. That only made him better. Sorlot (108) To put this into perspective, Griezmann scored a goal every 166 minutes, while Mora scored one point out of 127.
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