“Angel gives you life, play 15, 20, 30 or 90 minutes. We need it,” he said. Diego Pablo Simeon after the agonizing comeback of Atletico Madrid al Getafe last Saturday (4-3). Two goals from Angel Strap they were key in it, the initial 1-0 and the 3-3 that equalized at the edge of the break. The Argentine is in his most effective year and aims to start this Wednesday against Levante.
when they don’t work Luis Suarez The Joao Félix, Matheus Cunha is in the process of joining the team and Antoine Griezmann remains injured, Athletic You know you can always trust Angel Strap. The Argentine always gives everything: with more or less success in the game at times, but with his ability to be at the right time and in the right place in front of the goal.
He is already the maximum director of the Athletic this season. After the two targets at Getafe accumulates eleven, one more than Luis Suarezand three on Griezmann. It is his best goalscoring season since he signed for the rojiblanco club almost eight years ago, although he made his debut a year later, at the opening of the 2015-16 campaign, after overcoming a heart condition.
In that season he already contributed 8 goals, and since then the most he had achieved had been 9 goals, in the 2017-18 and 2020-21 academic years, last season in which his goals were so important in the last third of the championship. And not only because of his number, but because of the ability to take advantage of the minutes.
The Correa this season is more effective than ever: he has scored 11 goals in 1,703 minutes of play, a goal every 155 minutes. Last season there were 9 goals in 3,304 minutes, one every 337. Interestingly, his best season in this section had been the first, 2015-16, when he scored 8 goals in 1,375 minutes: one goal every 172 minutes.
SIMEONE: “IT GENERATES GOOD THINGS FOR US”
“It generates good things for us, because we feel identified with him. He must be in the year that has scored the most goals, and that generates growth for us, in a footballer like Correa that everything has cost him, and believe me that nobody has given him anything of what he has”, added Simeone this Saturday.
He knows well the ‘cholos‘ that things have not been easy for the striker from Rosario. From his humble origins-“My family lived on what I earned when I was 10 years old”, he even said in 2017 to ‘The country‘-, the heart problem that was detected when he was just 19 years old and that led him to undergo surgery in New Yorkhis patience in adapting to the heavy competition at the front of the Athletic and his willingness to adapt to playing on the right flank rather than up front, without a frown or a bad word.
Also when in the summer of 2019 he was close to being transferred to Italian Milan in an operation that was theoretically going to allow the arrival of Rodrigo Moreno, then in the Valenciaal Wanda Metropolitano, and it was not closed. Or when, last season, his failures against the Betis at a key moment in the fight for the title they made him leave embraced by his coach from the Benito Villamarin and he retaliated by scoring five key goals in the last eight days of the championship, including the 1-1 in the decisive final day against Valladolid (1-2).
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