Carrasco vindicates himself … with LaLiga won with Atlético

Belgium said goodbye to the Euro yesterday, after losing to Italy in the quarterfinals, and hours later Yannick Carrasco surprises on his Instagram account… with a photo of the LaLiga trophy won with Atlético in a storie. Subliminal message for your coach, Roberto Martínez? Can be. There is an indisputable factor: the numbers. And it is that if Carrasco He started as a starter with his selection this Eurocopa his participation has been dissolving like a sugar in water until he played only 31% of the possible minutes and with only three in the second phase of the tournament, between eighth and fourth. In fact those three were in the game against Portugal.

Zero minutes against Italy, in the elimination, and the first manifestation of the rojiblanco is a thought … to his club, to Atlético, where he was one of the most prominent footballers, especially in the final section with superb performances. A Carrasco who faced this tournament being one of the prominent names of That Belgium one of the favorites, in many pools, third in the 2018 World Cup.

With 27 years (which will be 28 in September) and in the “best physical moment of his entire career” as he recognized in an interview from the concentration with Belgium, in the days before the start of the Euro the feeling is more sour than sweet a month later. “In relation to my age and from my experience (this time), I think it will be something positive,” he argued then, but the games were coming and their participation waning and waning. The 77 'of the first day against Russia were already 59' against Denmark, the second and zero against Finland and Italy and only three against Portugal. Today, hours later, he thinks only in rojiblanco. Where it does count. His Instagram attests. At 21 he must join the Cholo discipline.