It has been a long time since he has been asking Marco Asensio a reaction. A sign that the player who left with his very serious knee injury could return. And yesterday, before him PomegranateThe Balearic perhaps laid the first stone for it.
He also did it unexpectedly. It was opportunistic. In fact, he started the game as a substitute and the injury of Rodrygo Half an hour into the game, he opened the door for her, although it was rather he himself who later knocked it down.
At halftime he was working on the pitch to get ready in the second half and after the respite, it was he who spurred on the team. Until then few or none fought for the goal and, first with a high-quality heel that stayed on the wood and then with a goal center to Casemiro, began to earn three points for his own and, incidentally, confidence.
From then on he looked looser, with more self-confidence. He fought, he bargained, he left. As the Asensio That was once. Even in the final stretch he had the opportunity to once again serve an assist to Isco. The malagueño is another of the pieces that left a while ago.
That was how, at last, Asensio He showed again that he wants to be Asensio again. The boy who has a goal, who brings many things in attack and who can be counted on for the big dates.