Héctor Herrera, to put the brooch

Hector Herrera It is going through one of its best moments in recent years. The Mexican, 31 years old, He has become strong at Atlético and with his national team, where he already was, he caresses qualifying for the World Cup. The midfielder, whose contract ends in June and has already announced that goes to the United Statesis sweet and intends to say goodbye to the rojiblanco team in a big way.

Mexico beat Honduras in the last qualifying matchwith a assistance from Herrera. The Aztec team needs a point against El Salvador to definitively seal the ticket to Qatar and the midfielder will not be in that final appointment, who will have to serve a sanction. Thus, Atlético hopes that he can return sooner (the duel is at dawn from Wednesday to Thursday) to rejoin the group and be ready against Alavés (Saturday, 9:00 p.m.).

Because Herrera is already indisputable in Atlético’s midfield. The midfielder has linked seven games as a starter, and completed all of them except the last one. AND six wins and one draw. In the midst of this string of encounters, the Houston Dynamo announced his signing for the next course and that has not altered his performance as a rojiblanco either. The footballer is committed and Simeone fully trusts him, of whom he did recognize that he was giving him fewer opportunities than he deserved.

But the Mexican entered the eleven against Osasuna, just after the Levante debacle, and since then always in the team. Herrera and ten more. He is the central midfielder and his teammates have varied on his sides: Koke, Llorente, Kondogbia, De Paul… Lately they have settled in the central trio Herrera, with Koke on his left and De Paul on his right. It is time for Herrera, who has accumulated 603 minutes in this month and a half, when before it only had 474 spread over 17 meetings.

If the injuries respect him, Herrera will say goodbye being important in this reborn Atleti. He is 456 minutes away from his record on the team (1,533, in the first season, 19-20), but in no way will he get his Legend plate, because goes for 75 games as rojiblanco. His challenges in 2022 were to convince Simeone, grow with Atleti and get Mexico into the World Cup and for all of them he is on the right track.