Not for recurring, the scene has ceased to be meritorious. Is about Raúl de Tomás opening the can for Espanyolraising parakeet supporters from their seats and celebrating the first goal of the game together. Who else does it in LaLiga, on seven occasions, along with Karim Benzema. His first six months in LaLiga as a parakeet and his experience in the Second Division had served as an exit ramp for a season, the current one, in which he has become the ‘cicerone’ of goals not only for the Blue and Whites, but also for First. And that has opened the doors of the Spanish National Team for him twice.
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“Benzema I love it a mirrorYou are able to get out of your comfort zone. Is the most complete striker in the world“, wielded De Tomás in an interview with AS last October. “And I see myself reflected because I like to associate, fall to the band, go down to receive, throw unchecks behind the back… A bit of everything”, reeled the battering ram of the Espanyol, which precisely now only has its Real Madrid benchmark ahead. The Frenchman is the only player who has scored more goals (22) than RdT in this League, and the only one who has given his team more points15, for the 14 points and 14 goals of the parakeet attacker.
Have been 12 so far the victims of Raúl de Tomás in the current season: Atlético de Madrid, Alavés, Real Madrid, Cádiz (first and second round), Elche (first and second round), Athletic, Granada, Levante, Valencia, Betis, Barcelona and Mallorca, in that order. “I had been a little out of what I am in the field for a couple of weeks“, he acknowledged after his goal against the Balearic Islands, breaking a month-long drought.
Equal effectiveness hopes to exhibit on the same stage, the RCDE Stadiumbut with a different shirt, that of Spain, this Saturday against Albania, in the same way as a few days later against Iceland in Riazor. Luis Enrique trusts him. He has taken it to the Selection for Second call consecutive, after giving him minutes in the decisive November matches to access Qatar-2022. AND the World Cup is no utopia for the second most valuable scorer in LaLiga.