5 average football teams who stayed up by only attacking

MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 02: Rayo Vallecano de Madrid fans cheer their team on prior to start the La Liga match between Rayo Vallecano de Madrid and Real Madrid CF  at Estadio de Vallecas on November 2, 2013 in Madrid, Spain.  (Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
Rayo conceded 73 goals in the 2011/12 season but still managed to beat the drop

#2 Genoa 2011-12

GENOA, ITALY - FEBRUARY 05: Rodrigo Palacio #8 of Genoa celebrates with team-mates after scoring the opening goal of the Serie A match between Genoa CFC and SS Lazio at Stadio Luigi Ferraris on February 5, 2012 in Genoa, Italy.  (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images)
Rodrigo Palacio’s goal scoring spree saved Genoa from relegation

Genoa went through four coaches over the course of the 2011-12 season but concluded the campaign with a fairly comfortable six-point cushion above the bottom three thanks to a potent attack that just about managed to balance out the league’s worst defence.

That season, Genoa conceded 69 goals, four more than any other team and a full 13 more than Lecce, the occupants of the final relegation place. But they scored 50 (1.32 per match), the 10th best record in the league and 10 more than any of the sides who went down.

Rodrigo Palacio earned himself a move to Inter Milan with 19 of those goals for a side who notched three 3-2 wins and one 5-3 defeat in a run of four matches through January into early February and were also on the end of a defeat to Inter in a nine-goal thriller at the start of April.

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