Mirage with Isco: from illusion to a presumed residual role

Isco Alarcón (29 years old) dropped out for the match that Real Madrid will play against Espanyol in Barcelona. The Malaga footballer suffers an overload on his back, which separated him from the game against the parakeet. Already last Tuesday, after the defeat against the Sheriff in the Champions League, the Malaga player did not jump to exercise with his teammates who had not played a single minute. Both on Thursday and Friday, the one from Arroyo de la Miel had trained normally with the rest of his teammates.

The truth is that Isco is experiencing a slightly anomalous start to the season. He worked intensively throughout the summer with the intention of securing a place in the starting XI: Ancelotti arrived the same year as him, in 2013, quickly becoming one of his key players in midfield: under the orders of the Italian coach. , Isco played 106 games, where he scored 17 goals and gave 23 assists. Now, in his last year of contract with the white team (it ends on June 30), the midfielder has participated in six league matches (he has not done so in the Champions League, the other competition that Real Madrid plays), being a starter in two of them: against Levante and Betis. Formidable was his performance against the Granota team, despite the final tie (3-3) on the scoreboard. That was the key to be back in the eleven against the Betis days later.

But everything indicates that he will have a residual situation again this season: after being a starter on matchdays 2 and 3, the Malaga player has been falling into oblivion: he was a substitute against Celta on matchday four. In the last three he has played 39 minutes distributed as follows: 12 minutes against Valencia, 18 against Mallorca (gave him time to score the last goal of the match) and nine against Villarreal. Just 166 minutes in total …

Already last season, The Malaga man lived through several humiliating situations with Zidane, who never saw a possible solution to his problems in the midfielder: . Such was the status of the player who requested to be traded in the winter market. Some team was interested in his services, the case of Sevilla, but he did not go beyond there. He had several serious frictions with Zidane, for example, when he was caught in the last Clásico played at the Camp Nou and they were captured by television cameras: “If he has to change me, he changes me in the 50's or in the 60 'of match. Sometimes in the break. If he has to put me in, he puts me in 80 '”. That would take its toll on him throughout the campaign. The Frenchman put the lace on the day that, in the absence of several injured players, Isco did not travel to Huesca … due to an overload on his back.

This campaign, Isco made a 180 degree turn to his approach: of wanting to leave to stay … mainly due to lack of offers. Zidane's departure opened new hopes for him. The arrival of Ancelotti gave him back the desire to reconvert his address, but barely three months have passed for everything to return to where it was at the end of the League: to want to leave the white set. You have time to redirect the situation. He has time with the stoppage for national teams to restart again …