Joaquín seeks his limits

“It is a pride meet the number of 600 games at the Santiago Bernabéu”. That’s how happy Joaquín was last Friday after reaching a new milestone in his sports career in the League. The context explains everything. End of a historic campaign. A renewal until 2023 signed. And a dream on the table: keep writing chapters of glory in Heliopolis. While the compliments are fired towards him, Joaquín takes on the challenge of continuing to show on the pitch that he can to be important despite his 40 years. But,even when?

In Betis nobody sets limits to the potential of Joaquin. Her age was eliminated from every performance parameter as her paper in this campaign was decisive despite being one secondary base in Pellegrini’s plan. The coach never talks about starters and substitutes, but he does warn of the need to deliver a special plan to the Cadiz winger. With fewer minutes. With fewer miles. With more stress calculations. And Joaquin accepts it. Under that scenario, he played almost everything in Europe and went providential in the Cup by scoring the decisive goal in the semi-final against Rayo Vallecano and one of the penalties in the agonizing round of La Cartuja.

Porto has plenty of arguments to support his intention to overtake Zubizarreta as the player with the most appearances in the history of the League (622). The Artificial Intelligence of Olocip It also shows remarkable figures around the moment that the footballer is going through. It is a guarantee from set pieces as he is the second player on the team with the most impact in this parameter, only behind Fekir. Despite playing less than 500 minutes in this League, he is a weighty figure in strategy plays when he is on the pitch. In addition, it is striking to see that his contribution to the team at a defensive level rose compared to previous campaigns in a clear nod to the work of Manuel Pellegrini in this regard. At the moment, there is Joaquín for a while.