AGAINST LEGANÉS

Torres scored the 4,500th goal in LaLiga

Our team reached a historical number of goals in LaLiga this Saturday at the Calderón after scoring 4,500 goals in Spanish football's showpiece event.

PHOTO: Ángel Gutiérrez

Fernando Torres scored our club’s 4,500th goal in LaLiga this Saturday against Leganés. It happened on 51 minutes, when Torres beat the visitor’s goalkeeper Herrerín, scoring Atlético’s second goal on the score. Minutes before, it was also Torres who had scored our team’s first goal. With this goal, we have reached 4,500 goals scored in the 2,597 matches played in the First Division.

Everything started on the 10th of February, 1929. Vicente Palacios scored the first goal of our history in the top flight of Spanish football. Players like Josep Juncosa (goal 500), Adrián Escudero (goal 1,000), Joaquín Peiró (goal 1,500), Julio Orozco (goal 2.000), Marcelino Perez (goal 2.500), Roberto Simón Marina (goal 3,000), Cristian Vieri (goal 3,500) and Simao Sabrosa (goal 4,000) have scored other goals in the history of the club.

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