On his return after a year redoing his shattered knee, Marco Asensio It only took 29 seconds to sing a goal again. It was on June 18, against Valencia, and the ball that then rewarded the Balearic ordeal suffered now seems to deny him bread and salt. Asensio he once again burned against Alavés a new opportunity to establish himself firmly in Zidane's attack and went to the bench replaced in the 63rd minute with face of few friends. Physically he does not drag any problem or annoyance but he does not find his football again and there is a fact that summarizes this limbo that he is going through: has not participated in a Madrid goal, scoring it or giving assistance, since the last day of the last league…
Since that 2-2 against Leganés that canceled the championship, on July 19, in which Asensio scored 1-2 in Butarque, they have passed four months and 12 games in which the left-hander almost tiptoed across the pitch, something unusual for him. In eight of those matches (Alavés, Inter, Villarreal, Huesca, Levante, Barcelona, Cádiz and Valladolid) He didn't even attempt a shot.
There is no injury behind the slump
What is more common is that, after such an important injury, the footballer returns with a very high peak and then crosses a flat valley in his performance. This is what is happening to the Balearic Islands. As AS learned, there is no discomfort in your knee or any other type of physical discomfort behind these difficulties of the Spanish-Dutch attacker to see to be relevant. “I feel very good, I have worked to be with a spark,” Asensio himself said just a month ago.
Asensio, in an action against Alavés: he did not attempt any shot.
JAVIER GANDUL
The case is that Asensio lives a changing situation in the National Team, where he enters and leaves Luis Enrique's plans, but sees how his contribution becomes more than necessary given Hazard's umpteenth injury and the irregularity of his competitor Vinicius, together with the prolonged loss (more than expected) of Benzema. There is currently no news from Asensio, but Zidane is eagerly awaiting them. The Pizjuán and the Derbi appear around the corner.