Falcao is back

Vallecas has recovered his Tiger. Falcao reappeared with Rayo 29 days after suffering a tear in the adductor magnus of the right thigh at the Bernabéu and he did so by playing the last quarter of an hour of the match against Espanyol. A time in which he barely had the margin to leave his mark, although his return was already good news in itself. He got the biggest ovation from Vallecas, which once again hung the ‘no tickets’ sign and where seeing Colombian flags in the stands has become commonplace.

The forward entered the call-up of Mallorca, but Rayo got the duel back on track – he won 2-0 in the 20th minute – that Iraola did not have the need to risk and get him out, also allowing him to complete his recovery. And it is that the same technician had admitted that it arrived “just”. Everything pointed to the fact that he would have minutes at the Mestalla and the Colombian traveled, although some new annoyances left him in the stands. “He had trained normally with the group, but in the previous one he felt that he was not entirely comfortable. It goes in terms of what his injury was. We thought that it could be shortened anyway, but it goes according to plan, “explained the Basque.

The franjirrojos thus recover one of their pichichis, since he adds five goals —the same as Álvaro— in just 349 minutes. Hence Tiger stay like the player who needs the least time to score in all of LaLiga. The international wets every 69.8 minutes, a better average than that of the Barcelona player Ansu Fati (71) and that of the athletic Cunha (80). To get those five targets, Álvaro needed ten shots on goal and Falcao, nine. Both are the ones who shoot the most from Iraola’s team.

The forward’s was not the only return. Pathé Ciss and Nteka, who had accompanied him in the infirmary, also returned to Espanyol. The midfielder suffered a back injury during the national team break and had been in dry dock for just under a month, while the midfielder overcame ankle problems that emerged during the Mallorca week. Facing Rayo’s visit to Ceramics this Sunday, Iraola recovers the sanctioned Comesaña and Merquelanz continues to be out.