Two assists and the winner for Deportivo A Coruña leave Gabonese striker with one club record and eyeing anotherPierre-Emerick Aubameyang was already the best player on the pitch when he ran through to score Deportivo A Coruña’s winner on Saturday night. It was certainly not Ilias Akhomach, the Villarreal substitute whose pass on halfway had inadvertently played Aubameyang through, nor Sergi Cardona, the unassuming intended target of that pass. After 89 minutes and two assists, the 37-year-old Aubameyang raced the length of the half to slot past Luiz Júnior to make it 3-2.It had been a similar case the week before, when Aubameyang’s pace again left the Valencia defenders behind before he dinked the ball over the goalkeeper. The week before that, he calmly rounded Málaga’s Alfonso Herrero before opening the scoring. The week before that, the former Barcelona striker marked his return to La Liga against Elche with a superb touch and finish from Lorenzo Amatucci’s diagonal pass. Scoring in each of his first four games for Deportivo is a club record, eclipsing Bebeto’s fast start of three in a row from 1992. Continue reading...
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Outside back Alex Freeman got his first start of the LaLiga season and fourth since joining Villarreal last January in a 2-3 loss to Deportivo. Villarreal is winless, with two ties and two losses, four games into the season. Johnny Cardoso had his longest stint on the field for Atletico Madrid, coming on in the […] The post Americans in Spain: Alex Freeman gets first start of season appeared first on Soccer America.
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