Josef Martinez is having the year of his life. First, he broke the MLS career hat tricks record, then it was the single-season goal-scoring record, and he’s only one game away from breaking the consecutive-scoring games record by stretching his streak to double digits. He’s having the year every MLS striker dreams about.
But was he actually playing better last season? The advanced statistics say maybe, and Tata Martino said he was basically unlucky to to be having a record-breaking season in 2017.
“He would’ve broken the record last year if he didn’t have injury problems,” Martino said in a report by John Rojas in AS.