Tottenham received a visit from Liverpool in the Premier League and it was again evident that José Mourinho does not have Gareth Bale for the real days, against top-level rivals and in which the Spur team plays the main objectives of the season. Mou chose Bergwijn and Son like band men ahead of the Welshman, on loan from Real Madrid until the end of the season.
A dynamic that has been repeated regularly and that generates concern in the white club (although they expected it, according to the level shown by Bale in recent years); Madrid loaned the player to Tottenham with the idea that he would have a good year, revalue and could be transferred next summer (He has a contract with Madrid until 2022). He has left interesting moments in London, but his balance at the moment is not the best possible, far from it: he has played 733 minutes and scored four goals, nothing more.
Bale, in the Europa League
Bale has only started one of the ten Premier League games in which he has been available since returning to Tottenham., his team of origin before signing for Madrid in 2013 in exchange for 101 million euros. Mourinho has reserved the Welshman for minor competitions, where he does have opportunities in a fluid way: he started all six Europa League group stage matches (scoring only one goal), tAlso in the fourth round of the FA Cup against Wycombe Wanderers of the English Second Division (the same that day) and in the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup against Stoke City (another target).
Tottenham and City have qualified for the final of the tournament, in which the Welshman will have a chance to play at the start. It is what he has left, with the Premier vetoed for him as a starter, as Mourinho himself recently assured: “I can't give away minutes, it's something I can't do. I will continue in this line. We all know the problems he has had in previous seasons, his injuries this year, the ups and downs for little things … “.