Cristian Tello (Sabadell, 08/11/1991) is going through the best moment of his football career and on Saturday at the Camp Nou the player of the Real
Betis, if your discomfort subside, you can play your fifth game in a row as a starter for the first time in the history of LaLiga, because since he made his debut under the hand of Pep Guardiola on January 28, 2012 in a Villarreal-Barcelona (0-0) never He has started more than four straight games in the First Division.
Tello started 17 of his 59 league games for Barça (29%) and started 38 of 96 for Betis (40%). With Porto he started 20 of 36 games (56%) and with Fiorentina, in 35 of 51 (69%). Until he reached Betis, 19 of his 24 goals in the league were scored by starting out (79%). In the three previous seasons as Betic, only 3 of his 10 goals (30%) were made as a starter, since the remaining 70% were scored as a substitute, a band that is now managing to shake off at once.
Tello started the current season as a substitute under the command of Pellegrini, who kept him on the bench on matchdays 2, 3 and 4 despite the fact that in the first one Real Betis won with a goal of his in the discount at Mendizorroza (0-1) . As a result of the Getafe debacle (3-0), Tello took ownership at Mestalla, where he scored 0-2 after a sensational start from Joaquín, and since then he has not released it, despite the defeats against Real Sociedad (0-3) and Atlético (2-0).
This Sunday against Elche (3-0) Tello has signed his best game since he arrived at Betis, scoring two goals and giving the first to Sanabria. In eight games he has achieved four goals, double those achieved in the entire past campaign and the same of the two previous ones under the command of Setién, with whom in December 2017 he played four games in a row as a starter, his top as Betic, although in that series he did not score any goals.
Tello's goal against Elche
He was an absolute international after a great year with Tito Vilanova
With Fiorentina, Tello was a starter in up to nine Serie A games in a row, the last of the 2016/17 season (he scored one goal), and with Porto in seven, between November 2014 and January 2015 (one goal) . With FC Barcelona the most he played followed by the starter were four games in a row between March and April 2013 (he scored three goals), under the command of Tito Vilanova, in what was his best Barça campaign, 2012/13, which he finished with 7 goals in 22 league games, 12 as a starter, and another in the Champions League. In August 2013 Tello made his debut as an absolute international with Del Bosque and played the entire friendly against Ecuador in Guayaquil, forming an offensive hat-trick with Silva and Negredo -author of the 0-1- and assisting Cazorla in the final 0-2.
With Tata Martino, Tello's star declined, who in 2013/14 only scored one goal for Barça in 22 league games (2 starters), so he went on loan to Porto for a season and a half in the summer of 2014 and then another season and a half at Fiorentina, from which he made the leap to Betis in July 2017.
In his first year at Porto, Tello scored 7 league goals under Julen Lopetegui, but the following season he did not score any in the first half of the season and after the Basque coach's dismissal he went on loan to Fiorentina with Paulo Sosa , where he scored two goals in the second half of 2015/16 and four in 2016/17, a figure that he repeated in the first two years under Setién at Betis and already equals this season only in eight games, in the which is the best scoring start of his career (with Barça he scored his 4th goal on matchday 23 in 2012 and with Porto he had two on 22nd of 2014/15, which finished with seven).
Until this season, 3 of the 10 goals scored by Tello in the league as Betic had been made off the bench -the last win against Real Madrid last March or the 3-5 at Sánchez-Pizjuán, the most sounded-, although in the current campaign he already has 3 of his 4 goals as a starter and on Saturday he is preparing to play for the first time in LaLiga, and at the Camp Nou, his fifth game in a row from the beginning (to get an idea of the record number of titles followed by Joaquín in the League is at 47).