“Emelec is without a compass and with a respirator,” Esteban Dreer, who has won four national championships with electric (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017), said last week of the blue’s ill-fated 2023 campaign. And if one would happen to distort Dreer’s opinion by believing that the exporter usually attacks millionaires, be they good or bad, the same vision that Rifle has Marcelo pepo Morales.

The brilliant former Argentine midfielder has caused a sensation at Emelec since his first campaign in Ecuador in 1992, with which he was crowned twice (1993 and 1994). From the present moment of the club on San Martín Street, pepo He commented on it a few days ago, on the radio Huancavilca: “They don’t respect (opponents). Now they play him as an equal”.

The views of Dreer and Morales are contrary to the ‘official version’. The previous Tuesday, José Pileggi, president of Emelec since November 2022, said after a joint barbecue with the players and the coaching staff: “This is going higher, we have to go for results in the near future.”

among the worst

It is true that the most ordinary thing about Emelec 2023, in the Pro League tournament, is that in most of the ten dates it was among the five worst teams in the championship -as it is now, which is in box number twelve-, or in the set of four worst -when falls to thirteenth place in the table-.

On the sixth day, Emelec recorded the worst start of the competition so far in the 21st century. In the ninth, with a winless habit, he sealed the weakest start to the national tournament in his history, extending his winless streak to six straight games.

Last Sunday, Miler Bolaños appeared again, the only one of the 16 reinforcements who has given up so far. But even that return with a goal was not enough for victory. Bryan Angulo, became the only one Coward that’s not terrible – after unsuccessful steps in Mexico and Brazil – he missed a penalty against Liga de Quito which ended in a 1-1 draw.

worrying numbers

These are some of the figures that confirm that Emelec is not a “smooth wind” in the Pro League 2023. When two thirds of the first phase of the championship have passed, Miguel Rondelli’s team has, in fact, gone astray.

1) Emelec has only 9 units, out of 30 disputed ones. They are just a point behind Guayaquil City and Mushuc Run, the teams in the relegation zone (second to last and last in the table, respectively).

2) Emelec is one of five teams still recording single-digit points, after ten dates have passed. It has 9, just one unit more than Libertad, Guayaquil City and Mushuc Runa, all with 8.

3) The fact that it is in box number thirteen, among 16 teams, puts Emelec among the four worst clubs in the tournament today.

4) Millionaires don’t win on the third date. They have seven consecutive games without a win. It is the worst start of the national championship for Emelec since competing in the tournament.

5) In 2023, the George Capwell Emelec stadium has the same number of losses and wins (two and two, in any case), plus a draw. Namely, out of 15 points in the fight as the owner of the house, he won seven (46.66%).

6) So far in the 2023 tournament, Capwell have scored six of the thirteen goals they have conceded in the Pro League (46.15%).

7) In five away games in the Pro League 2023, those led by the Argentine Rondelli did not win. Guayaquil has two draws and three lost games; that is, two points out of 15 possible (13.33% weak efficiency).

8) Emelec has not had a chance to fight for the first stage for several days now. They are 16 points behind Independiente del Valle, the leaders with 25 (15 units remain at stake).

9) According to the market value assigned to them by the specialist site Transfermarkt, there are several teams with much cheaper squads than Emelec’s above the Blues in the Pro League standings. For example, Orense is fourth (a team with a price tag of $7.3 million), El Nacional, fifth ($7.01 million); Dolphin, seventh ($7.9 million); Gualaceo, eighth ($7 million); Cumbayá, tenth ($5.3 million). Emelec is twelfth, although the market value of his team according to Transfermarkt is 21.3 million dollars.

10) From March 19, the date of Emelec’s last win (they defeated Técnico Universitario 1-0, at Capwell) to Sunday when they drew 1-1 with away Liga de Quito, 56 days passed (between the third and tenth days of the Pro League 2023 ). (D)