La Real must react to the departure of one of its most decisive players of the past season. Leaves Odegaard, leaving a void difficult to fill, when it comes to football, a technically gifted unique in the last pass, and in attitude, with his tireless fight to press and recover the ball. But the txuri urdin squad is forced to rearm and build the team again considering that the Norwegian will not be there. The door to an incorporation is open and there are already players who, without being Odegaard, they like Olabe and the technicians, like Oscar
Rodriguez, the former Leganés who belongs to Madrid. There are quality and future options at home like those of Robert
Lopez or Robert
Navarrese and another of a tactical nature that affects one of the pillars of the team, Mikel
Oyarzabal.
A possible solution to repair the illustrious absence would be to delay and center the position of the captain from Eibar, well qualified to act as a playmaker. He has given ample evidence of this during his career and more specifically in the last stretch of the last League, in which Odegaard he was heavily weighed down by his knee injury.
The match in which he most clearly made Mikel
Oyarzabal of Odegaard it was against Granada. And he did a remarkable job, crowned with a goal when he was already playing as a forward. Too bad it didn't even serve to tie (2-3). Against Sevilla he also managed behind Willian
Joseph and For your, starting from the left, but always gaining positions in the center. In the final duel against Atlético de Madrid, Imanol lined him up behind the only striker, Alexander
Isak, in the same line of Odegaard, guarded by Zubimendi and Merino, with Gorosabel and Monreal open and three centrals behind.
His unquestionable quality and scoring power allow the realistic '10' to move in almost all attack positions. But he has always been comfortable between the lines, receiving from behind to turn around, drive a few meters and feed the band or the forward. He is trained to make the last pass or to shoot from outside the area. And, of course, he is one of those who leaves his skin in the pressure and in the surveillance to the side or the rival pivot.
Januzaj, another alternative
There is no lack of talented people in the Real to be able to assume a certain responsibility in the three-quarter line, to act as a hook, as they have done so masterfully Odegaard.
Another one of them is undoubtedly Adnan
Januzaj, who has an innate ability to filter passes in depth. He is also an expert in hiding the ball, causing fouls in danger zones and has a powerful shot, as he demonstrated on the last match day against Atlético or Valencia. With him, Real would gain a lot of magic between the lines and lose some display and physical power without the ball.