Borja Iglesias, 264 golden minutes for Manuel Pellegrini

Borja Iglesias appeared again from the bench to be decisive in Betis's triumph against Getafe. Manuel Pellegrini did not place the striker in his starting eleven despite his love affair with 2021, but his emergence in the second half caused him to cause two penalties and score the second of them after failing Channels the first. All an appearance of gold that confirms its qualitative leap in the last month. Borja Iglesias has played 264 minutes since he entered the field in the Copa del Rey event against Real Sociedad and there are five goals in the five games he has played since then. For the Verdiblanco coach, the return of the best Borja Iglesias is the best possible reinforcement to face this section of the season with the hope of fighting to enter Europe.

There were many doubts about the ability of the striker to leave behind his scoring crisis. But after a year and a half in Heliópolis, he finally found his best version on the grass and in Heliópolis they want to take advantage of it in this decisive phase of the campaign. He missed the league clash against Villarreal a week ago due to injury, but his return boosts the illusion that is once again placed in a footballer who cost 28 million euros and who was called to make a difference in attack. Pellegrini crosses his fingers so that the continuity of this brilliance of the ram becomes a reality in the next days of the League in full fight for the privileged zone.

The success of Borja Iglesias contrasts with Loren's doubts, his competition in the verdiblanco attack. The youth squad continues to leave a good version of the game on the field when Pellegrini hands him the starting shirt, but his sense of goal remains far from what he showed in previous seasons. The Chilean coach is confident that his two attacking tricks will deliver growing competition until the end of the course and in the absence of Sanabria, who left Heliópolis in the last winter market.