Berenguer’s pothole

Last Thursday, the 25th, seven months have passed since Álex Berenguer will score his last goal. It was before the Atlético de Madrid scoring 1-0 in the final 2-1 against the colchoneros. Since then, despite being careful and percussive, there has been no way, to the point of recognizing the own Marcelino Garcia Toral that it had become a kind of obsession that the Navarrese extreme had to shake off. Interestingly, last year was the top scorer of the rojiblanco team ahead of Iñaki Williams and Raúl García, specific forwards in the rojiblanco scheme, with eight goals in the league. This season, in 13 games, it has not been released. The pothole is accused to plunge the versatile Navarrese player into an unexpected crisis.

The Asturian coach has insisted, little friend to improvisations and changes in his head eleven, with Berenguer as holder since last season he decided to give him a place as a right winger, when his best profile in Osasuna and Torino had been preferably on the left. Marcelino he opted for Muniain from the left, having Morcillo in the bedroom, and Berenguer on the right inserted in a 4-2-2 scheme, with which they must support the two pivots and add area. Against Granada last Friday in San Mamés, the coach put him on the bench for the first time since the Ibaigane club signed him with Gaizka Garitano on the bench, who longed for a winger precisely with a goal, more than a year and a half ago. It was October 3, 2020 from Calcium by paying 10 million fixed + 1.5 in variables, and the next day he made his debut in Mendizorroza against Alavés. In his first game at La Catedral, on the 18th of that same month, it premiered also like goal scorer in the victory against Levante. But against Granada he did not play a single minute in the last meeting of the lions.

The young man Nico Williams (2002) took the Berenguer alternative and he was one of the best of the team in the final 2-2 against the Nasrid team. It will be necessary to see if Marcelino insists on the road of the youngest of the Williams this Wednesday against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu or strip again of a Berenguer, vertical and with quality, who always leaves his skin, despite the fact that his predicament in recent meetings has dangerously descended for his interests.