The week has not left too much good news for him
Atlético de Madrid
. So is. Among the positives by Covid, injuries and discomfort … the mattress team will not arrive in the best conditions to the game this Saturday against the FC Barcelona.
Among the few good news. The one around Yannick Carrasco, who has missed the last four official matches due to a muscle injury, who returned to training with his teammates on the way back to work after the weekend off. That is, he has been with the group for a week and everything indicates that he could start against the Catalan team, this weekend, in the Metropolitan Wanda.
And what better rival for the Belgian. The last time he came across the Catalan team, he left. The winger was key in the match that the mattress team played against him Barça at Camp Nou.
Very fast, direct, unbalancing, dangerous and effective in the races that were given towards the goal of Ter Stegen, ended up causing two penalties in favor of Athletic. That version of Yannick Carrasco He reminded the player that he was in his previous stage as rojiblanco, before leaving for the adventure of Chinese football, from which he returned this January to Athletic.
A start of his in the first quarter of an hour from the dividing line of the center of the field, surpassing by speed to Gerard
Pique, ended with his demolition in the area by the Chilean Arturo vidal. And the second goal of Athletic came after another maximum penalty, this one caused by Nelson
Semedo about the Belgian.
“He's going back to being that Carrasco that we knew: decisive, vertical, decisive at the end of the play, and it makes me happy ”, he acknowledged after the match Diego Simeone.
Carrasco scored against Celta and hopes to repeat against Barça
“I arrived overweight because I had trained individually in Belgium for two months ”, the player acknowledged a few months ago. “During the confinement we received a solid program from Athletic and I was in top form when the competition resumed. You don't lose your qualities. They are innate. You can lose your rhythm, but when you are physically in order, you can easily come back ”, explained the player.
For him it was the turning point for a player who at this start of the season won the title against him Pomegranate, for example, and had a great meeting. Later he also had outstanding performances, scoring against the Celta Vigo.