Iván Azón scored his fifth goal in the championship against Amorebieta and is now Real Zaragoza’s top scorer, tied with Álvaro Giménez, although with practically half the minutes played, 942 to 1,806, which reveals his extraordinary importance in getting serious problems for the Aragonese team and cushion the new failure of sports director Miguel Torrecilla when hiring center forwards.
Azón was already key in last season’s permanence, but this season he is, by far, Zaragoza’s best attacker, even though Juan Ignacio Martínez put or has put Nano Mesa ahead of him -only two goals-, Álvaro Giménez, Narváez -only two goals- or Sabin Merino, whom Torrecilla signed in the winter market for three and a half years of contract with a very important salary and has still not seen the door in seven games.
Iván Azón, 19, has only played nine games as a starter this season, but his goals, in addition to being providential, have left JIM in evidence in the last month and a half. Azón is a “tenured” for the coach, but he is never a starter, a result for which there are no more excuses. No footballer in the squad is being as decisive as the young striker, despite the fact that he has played less than all the other strikers and whose salary is the lowest in the group, the same as that of Francés, Francho or Chavarría, which also reveals an absolute Loss in the preparation of the template.
There are only nine games left to go and with a Zaragoza that is not in danger or has any real aspiration to reach the ‘playoff’, reducing Iván Azón to the last twenty minutes, and when the situation is desperate, it is a luxury that the club It is not permitted. And that not even the staunchest supporters of JIM understand.