Ansu Fati asks for passage. Or rather, ask again for passage. That a 17-year-old boy who at the beginning of LaLiga (then he was 16) already claimed his place, was fashionable, lost focus and went from subject to complement can be predictable. Things of the age. The extraordinary thing is that after seeing his role in the team diminished after his irruption, he returned 10 months later. of his debut being decisive. Ansu debuted in August, dazzled in September and in the last days before the break played the discount and testimonial minutes. Until he regained ownership on a Tuesday in June and was decisive again as if time had not passed. Knocking on the door twice in one season is within the reach of very few.
The youth squad was not a starter with Barcelona since February 15 (Barcelona 2 – Getafe 1). The young Blaugrana attacker came to score two goals against Levante and to be a starter in the Cup round against Athletic. But since then it has disappeared from Setien's plans. Not a minute against Betis, an urgent ownership against Getafe in a match in which Rei Manaj came to be called and from there nothing against Eibar, three minutes to lose time against Naples, nine against Madrid, five against Real Sociedad and spectator in Mallorca.
But on Tuesday against Leganés Setién gave him an opportunity again and Ansu was the key to the match. With Barça thick, slow and without ideas, it was the boy who unleashed an unfortunate game with a goal from the front in the first shot by the Blaugrana team.
His fifth goal in LaLiga, his sixth of the season. And they have all been transcendent. He debuted as a scorer against Osasuna scoring the equalizer to one when Barça lost 1-0. The following day he opened the scoreboard against Valencia, in the absence of Suárez he scored the two goals of his team that allowed him to add three points against Levante and against Leganés he unleashed a disastrous game of those of Setién. In the Champions League, it took two minutes (he entered the field in the 84th minute and scored in the 86th) to become 17 years and 40 days in the youngest scorer in the history of the Champions League and in passing give Barça the win at Giuseppe Meazza against Inter.
In an encounter in which Barcelona could not find a way to get their hands on Leganés, Ansu always challenged Awaziem, his marker, five years older than him and who took a significant physical advantage of 14 centimeters (1.92 for the Nigerian marker by 1.78 for the youth from Blaugrana). But Ansu did not wrinkle. He scored a decisive goal, was the best while he was on the field and was replaced at the start of the second half. As the field was empty, he lost the ovation of a hobby eager to see a kid knock on the door of the first team again.