Gonzalo Villar accelerates to Roma

Roma's spectacular victory over Bologna came thanks to an excellent choral match by Paulo Fonseca's team that he watched from the stands, where he served a suspension, an exhibition that endorses his idea. It is true that Bologna played with losses and gave more than one facility, but the capital's have reached a cruising speed thanks to an excellent execution of the possession and prominence approach that the Portuguese brought when he arrived from Ukraine. And Gonzalo Villar is revealing himself, he has already done so, as a piece to accelerate and refine that idea. The former Elche gave a clinic against Bolonia. He did it again in a magical month personally and ideally collectively.

Villar has already earned the respect of Serie A and Fonseca gives him the controls of Roma. He has chained several notable performances, both in the Europa League, which until recently was the competition where he played the most, and in the league, where he has already made a place in the eleven to mix with Veretout. Criticism surrenders to him. “He makes the difficult easy thanks to his intelligence; gives rhythm and geometry to Roma ”, explains the Gazzetta dello Sport who raves about the 22-year-old. “There is a new light in the game director's cabin”, highlights the Italian newspaper in reference to the mental agility that accelerates the circulation giallorossa. Villar was in the duel against Bologna the Romanista player who gave the most passes and the one who lost the fewest balls. But, numbers aside, He gave off that feeling because when a teammate does not know what to do with the ball, he quickly looks for the former Elche to handle it with security, dynamism and sense. Villar always guides the game in the correct way and, above all, he is making the possession that Fonseca's team usually accumulates for his style, not to accumulate minutes of the ball without verticalizing or deepening.

In addition, confident of himself, he turns and comes out of the pressure with the ball with great authority, getting rid of rivals with elegance. So much so that he has already overtaken Diawara in the rotation and the media is betting that he will be Veretout's long-term partner. He will have to fight it with Lorenzo Pellegrini, once Fonseca recovers his troops in the midfielder and the Italian international delays his position. But Villar has already marked territory in a league that looks again at the position of register with predilection. Locatelli, Barella, De Roon, Freuler, Arthur, Benaccer, Kessie … And Villar, match by match, is showing that he has nothing to envy all of them. A Locatelli he faced a few dates ago in a match marked by the expulsion of Pedro. It was a duel that calibrated its moment.

Gonzalo Villar was a bet from Petracchi. The then sports director rushed in last January to sign a very young medium who was already dazzling in the Second Division under Pacheta in Elche. Now many agree. Little by little room has been made. The Spanish colony that has settled in Rome also helps. Pedro, Pau, Carles Pérez and Borja Mayoral are part of the squad giallorossa together with him. Especially close to the former is the middle, who sees in the former Chelsea and Barcelona player the figure of the veteran who helps young people understand the rigors of football at the highest level. Meanwhile, Villar keeps his feet on the ground without neglecting his university studies at a distance.