Rodri 'conquers' Pellegrini

Rodri Sanchez fulfilled 21 years last Sunday and received as an unbeatable gift a ticket holder in the crucial appointment of Betis against him Huesca. With 34 degrees above the lawn of the Benito Villamarin and a growing lack of intensity in his team's game, he drew lines of hope and threatened the opponent from his freedom zone in three quarters. Face, pause and break lines with passes that try to make spaces. That's why it's a pampered piece from Manuel Pellegrini and it was already won a place in the plan of the 2021-2022 campaign. “He is a player who does different things,” the Chilean warned months ago about the youth squad, who will be part of the first team definitively next season and will be one of the important assets of the squad.

Rodri had minutes in the last three games of the verdiblanco team, being a starter in the last of them. He left good feelings in games destined a priori for the most experienced. But he does not burn responsibility to create game on the pitch and always found a way to positively influence the drawing of his team. He showed more virtues for behind the striker, but the figure of Fekir put a stop to his participation there and it heeled further to the left, also reflecting a point of polyvalence that dazzles Pellegrini.

The summer market will vary greatly the current context of the green-and-white team. Pellegrini knows that quarry must take a relevant role and Rodri is his most precious piece in this sense, waiting for the return of Robert, on loan at Las Palmas, also enable a qualitative leap from your attack zone. There will be Departures and many spotlights point to big name pieces like Fekir or Tello. Will be Antonio Cordon the one who has to pull the strings so that his planning can be adjusted to the European requirements without money being one of your tools. But in Heliópolis they smile with hope like Rodri, who traces a path of prominence that should minimize many of the questions.