Yannick Carrasco He is one of the fashionable men in the
Atlético de Madrid. The Belgian player is one of the most fit footballers right now in the mattress box, but also in The league.
He currently has 829 minutes in the course, in 14 games, nine of them as a starter, with three goals and three assists. His performances have not gone unnoticed. Especially in his country, where his steps are followed.
The player has recognized that the coronavirus break was key for him. “I feel physically fine. What a pleasure to play soccer without pain! When I returned to Athletic January, I was also fine, but I had just taken a two-month vacation ”, the player acknowledged in an interview published on the 16th in Belgium.
“Of course I spent those months in Belgium and spent five of the seven days with Lieven Maesschalck, but working in a room, without the ball, is not the same. It may sound very selfish, but the confinement was actually lucky for me. He put everyone on the same level. For me it was ideal, although it was a very strange end of the season, '' he said about the end of the previous season.
Carrasco He confessed that he has a thorn in the face of his compatriots. “‘ You know what sometimes I find a little sad? To who Spain everyone congratulated me for the goal I scored against a crack like Marc-André ter Stegen, in a good game for the whole team. But in Belgium I heard: ‘Yes, but it’s the goalkeeper’s fault…’ ”‘ he lamented in words to ‘Sport / Voetbalmagazine'.
“I'm proud to be Belgian, but why would you want to emphasize the goalkeeper's mistake instead of congratulating me? Sometimes I think, if it were another player, it would speak of a genius. Then we would see the replay a hundred times and we would not even talk about the goalkeeper ”, said the mattress player.
And it is in this sense that he complained about the image he has in his country. “But how is Yannick Carrasco, let's point out what's wrong. I don't think I'm an annoying guy, I'm always respectful, bilingual French-Dutch and yet I'm always criticized. Why don't they rejoice when I do something good? ”He wondered.
Especially in reference to the criticism that fell on him after the game with his country, against England, in which he was one of the best but failed two good occasions. Yes, for example. I notice that there are ‘bye bye’ and players who are the target of journalists. I'm used to it and I don't think it's going to change now, but some of the reviews in the newspapers give me a bad image. ' It's as if a player you don't see in the game scores a goal and you only talk about him the next day. For players like me, who work a lot, sometimes in the background, it is normal for it to be irritating, “he said.
YOUR POSITION WITH THE RED DEVILS
He also had words about his position with the Belgian team. In fact he sent a message to the coach, to Roberto Martine
z. In his country he is playing winger. “It's clear that this is not my best position,” he was honest. “Against England, with the absence of Eden
Hazard , everyone saw that I can do better if I can play later. I give more, I dare more. I don't like to play lower, but I want to help the team, “he explained to ‘Sport / Voetbalmagazine’To point out that with the Madridista in the team, his situation is conditioned.
“The defensive aspect is not my strong point and this position keeps me away from the goal, but Eden is ahead of me so there is no discussion, “he said Carrasco. “He is the pivot of the team. So instead of haggling like in the Athletic, I give him the ball, that's normal. And that is what they ask of me. You have to be able to accept your role in a collective. I don't question it, “he said.
The mattress maker acknowledged that Born Chadli or Thorgan
Hazard they are in the same situation. “The three of us are a bit in the same situation. We can take care of the whole flank, but in reality we are extreme, so somewhere we have to sacrifice our attacking ambitions for the defensive aspect. A circumstance that for other colleagues is the opposite. “With Thomas meunier and Timothy castagne it's the other way around. They are trained as a right back, and in this system they are asked to do more. That's great for them, because they get more freedom. They have the advantage with us that they are not afraid of being stupid on defense, so they attack more. On the other hand, we are so afraid of making a defensive mistake that we think more about defense than attack, ”he lamented.
“I want to say it clearly. If we score a goal, they will say that it is the opponent who has defended badly. And if they surpass us they will say that it is that we cannot or know how to defend, why are they putting us in that position and blah, blah, blah … “, said the visibly frustrated mattress.