Lemar collects his award

Thomas Lemar has had a prize for his football growth. The Frenchman has taken a step forward this season, has become a fixture for Simeone and, after being in the shop window in summer, today he has a fundamental role in Atlético. The player in charge of linking the center of the field with the lead that has been won, based on training and game after game a gap in the eleven.

In the last week He has been training on the sidelines and is reaching the games between cottons, which perhaps has influenced his last two substitutions. After 13 starts in the previous 14 games, against Getafe and Chelsea he went to the bench in two games where Atlético failed to score or have a player with the lucidity to break lines from that midfielder where he has settled. Lemar accumulates 1,381 minutes, but his role this season has gone from less to more completely. The Frenchman played 290 of the first 1,260 minutes of the course, watching the other 970 from the bench. But, today, it is difficult to see him outside the eleven.

He has improved the team's game and is becoming more and more like Monaco's Lemar. Something that has caused Didier Deschamps wanted to reward his evolution by giving him back to the national team for the first time since November 2019 (he played two minutes against Moldova and nothing against Albania). And it is not just any list, it is the last break prior to next summer's Eurocup. Lemar, who already lifted the World Cup in Russia (2018), the same summer in which he signed for Atlético, He wants to be at the meeting where France is once again one of the great candidates for the title.

The French coach indicated that now “Thomas (Lemar) is more consistent, before he had an extremely reduced playing time, even reduced to nothing”. The rojiblanco shares a list and offensive zone with Ben Yedder, Coman, Ousmane Dembelé, Giroud, Griezmann, Martial and Mbappé. An attack of many carats where Lemar does not want to miss. The Athletic needs to regain shine in the final meters and to a large extent it will be key to recover the French in the area where it does most damage. If he continues as before, his presence in the rojiblanco eleven and in the next European Championship will be much closer.