Nicolas Lopez became a scoring champion of the MX League with nine touchdowns in 923 minutes played during the Grita México A21. It was from the incorporation of Miguel Herrera that “El Diente” detonated his offensive contribution to achieve the distinction, an achievement that revalues the player in the market for his ability to make a difference in Tigers.
The Uruguayan forward is one of the eight most valuable players in Liga MX with nine million dollars and can expect an improvement. His age, 28 years old in October, a scoring championship and a good League are variables that would allow him to continue increasing his market value, since experts estimate that a player reaches his football development ceiling until he is 30 years old.
– What factors give Nicolás López a value of 9 million dollars?
– “His performance with many goals and participation in goals. His potential is seen because there have already been two transfers with the cost of 10 million dollars, it is already known that ‘El Diente’ López is a player for whom a team can pay a lot of money and that is always a good sign for potential of the player. He has very good statistics, the goals per minute played in the last three tournaments was always one of the best in that statistic, it was already seen that even without so many minutes with ‘Tuca’ (Ferretti) he was a player who could produce many goals ” explained Bela Csanyi, a soccer securities analyst at Transfermarkt.
The Tigers They bought Nicolás López from Sport Club Internacional de Brasil for the Clausura 2020 tournament at a cost of 10 million dollars. According to the Transfermarkt portal, only Frenchman Florian Thauvin ($ 15.8 million) is above “El Diente” in value within the feline group.
However, his season with the best record of goals by number of minutes played has been in the First Division of Uruguay, where he recorded a goal every 67 minutes in the Closing 2011 for a mark of three goals in three games in which he participated and in 2016 a goal every 54 minutes for a total of seven goals in 12 games. Since then, his best record was this Apertura 2021 in Liga MX in which he scored a goal every 102 minutes.
López’s is the best scoring record by number of minutes played since Ángel Mena’s scoring championship in Clausura 2019, when the León player scored a goal every 100.4 minutes. However, in the last 10 tournaments, the best average of goals is the one recorded by André-Pierre Gignac in Clausura 2018, who scored one goal every 87.8 minutes, for a total of 14 in 1,230 minutes.
With the scoring championship in this edition of the MX League, Nicolas Lopez joined Néstor Silvera, Walter Gaitán and André Pierre Gignac as the only Tigres players to have been scoring champions; the French has done it twice.
The Uruguayan debuted with six goals and two assists in the 2020 Apertura and contributed six more goals in the Opening 2021 in 393 and 645 minutes of play, respectively. Csanyi pointed out that Ricardo Ferretti’s game scheme, in which “he who doesn’t defend doesn’t play much”, in addition to the time it took him to adapt to Mexican soccer, limited his playing minutes in his first three tournaments.
“Ferretti had footballers who played a lot and had that confidence, there were others like Leo Fernández who arrived relatively late and had problems adapting to the style of ‘Tuca’, to control the games as much as possible starting with defensive tasks, later, if a player contributed offensively was even better, but the base in Tigres was defense. Now with Herrera, Tigres’ football is a little more risky and offensive-oriented and then players like ‘El Diente’ have their place because they have a certain risk of losing the mark a little in defense but they balance it with their offensive contribution ”.
Nicolas Lopez shared the scoring title with German Berterame, of the Athletic of San Luis. They did so with the fewest goals recorded since Raúl Ruidíaz (Monarcas Morelia) also scored nine in the Clausura 2017. Since the Winter of 96, the first short tournament in Mexico, only López, Berterame and Ruidíaz registered fewer than 10 goals.
Bela Csanyi points out that, coupled with the repechage system that allows entering the final stretch without having to win so many games, many coaches have adopted a more defensive system, which could have contributed to fewer goals. In fact, during this tournament only five games had five or more goals.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx