Even if it is for convenience, Real Madrid and Ancelotti still not quite throwing in the towel for Gareth Bale. With seven months of competition still ahead and before both sides say goodbye, the Italian has faith that he can still get some more juice from the Cardiff striker. Due to scoring ability and because the natural position for the Welshman has no owner: as long as Rodrygo, Asensio or Lucas do not manage to appropriate that hole in the attack trident, a healthy Bale will be in the plans of Carletto…
Ancelotti also trusts the emotional component, which counts a lot in Bale. The transalpine warned him in his presentation, when he refused to ‘bury’ the Madridista Bale. “If he’s motivated he can have a great season and give us a lot.”
Gareth has been recovering thoroughly from the knee injury to be able to contest on Saturday the Wales-Belarus (8:45 pm) in which it will reach the 100th international. A relevant milestone for a footballer who has always placed his role as a beacon in the Dragon team above everything and everyone. With that and possibly a step from his country to the World Cup, Bale would rejoin Madrid with that Welsh part resolved and being able to focus his agenda on Madrid at least until March of next year, when will there be the next break for international matches …
The help … for Karim and ‘Vini’
Madrid cling to any factor that could stretch Bale’s production before the contract ends in June. With a team that depends too much on the goals of Benzema and Vinicius (62% of those who have done this Real Madrid 2021-22), Bale is the one who gives the most guarantees of being able to unite and form a trident.
The British brings in his record a historical average with Madrid of one goal every 170 minutes in Madrid (106 goals in 18,119 ‘), which leaves his competitors kilometers behind. Asensio manages to score every 264 ‘(40 goals in 10,590’), Rodrygo every 293 ‘(11 in 3,233’) and Lucas, the least scorer of all, is far behind, who sees the goal every 517 ‘(23 goals in 13,980’). Attitude and injuries aside, Bale is another world.
The only shadow that hangs over him Cardiff Express It is, once again, if it will not be rusty. He has gone to Wales with the intention of playing both Belarus and then Hazard and Courtois’ Belgium (on the 16th). Two games with little rest for a footballer with a terrifying history of muscle injuries and who accumulates 73 days without being in an official match (last August 28 at Villamarín) due to the knee injury from which he has just recovered. What’s more, Bale has left with his team with only one almost complete training session with the white team, the one before Rayo’s visit to the Bernabéu.
Risks that Madrid assumes as the toll it has to pay with Bale, a cost that Ancelotti hopes to recover before the end of the season …