Two starts at centre-back, a rating of 7.12 for Jou
Isidre Jou has swapped Oviedo's flank for its heart, and the numbers already lean his way.
The ball hangs, the forward checks his run, and Isidre Jou reads it a beat before anyone else — stepping across, chest square, and clearing with the calm of a man who has stood there all his life. Two starts in the middle now, and the Oviedo crowd has taken to him.
From full-back, Jou made six starts at an average of 6.7, with no goals and no assists. At centre-back the mark climbs to 7.12 across those two outings, still without a goal or an assist — but a defender is measured in the quiet of a cleared cross and the certainty he gives those beside him. "I feel the game differently in there," Jou says. "You see everything." Oviedo, seven major titles to their name, know a good thing when they watch one.