MADRID 11 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham is going through his best moment of the season, much more successful in scoring in the last month than at the beginning of the season and with prominence and stripes when his team needed him most, being the leader of the recovery of Carlo Ancelotti’s in a crucial period of the course.
The best Bellingham is back. The ‘5’ put the icing on the cake this Tuesday by scoring Madrid’s third goal in the necessary victory (2-3) over Italian team Atalanta on matchday six of the Champions League phase to confirm that he has rediscovered his best version with six goals in his last seven games.
A dynamic that started a month ago, since he debuted his scoring record against Osasuna on November 9, in the best example of the fact that all that was left was to uncork the bottle of champagne. That goal broke a drought of 12 games this season without seeing a goal due to a lack of forcefulness and effectiveness, a start diametrically opposite to the one he had signed in his first campaign where he surprised everyone with his scoring success.
Since his goal at the Santiago Bernabéu against the ‘rojillos’ we have seen another Bellingham, reminiscent of last season, with much more presence in the area, but just as committed and supportive in his role as a playmaker. And it seems that his position, after Ancelotti placed him more inside and seemed to be lost at times, is the reason for him to be leader again.
In the last month, he has scored six goals in seven games, scoring consecutively in the last four games, without ‘getting wet’ only on the bad night at Anfield, in a key scoring streak for the Madrid team to get better fuel and get closer to a competitive version. His forcefulness has been lethal, needing only eight shots to score those six goals.
Furthermore, Bellingham, in the last 31 days, has participated in nine goals, because he has also assisted on three occasions. And in these last seven games he has been, without an injured Vinícius Júnior, the team’s lighthouse and the player through whom all the Madrid danger passes, distributing nine key passes and participating in 361 actions with the ball (51.57 on average), with a high 89 percent pass success rate.
His more advanced position and not so out of position mean that he is not as participatory in the construction – in the 11 previous LaLiga EA Sports and Champions games he averages almost 70 actions with the ball per game -, but he exploits his many virtues by looking towards the goal rival, bringing out his repertoire of dribbles, drives and finishes, for the moment remembering Zinédine Zidane again.
But his current leader numbers take on more importance and weight by analyzing the data from his start to this season. In those first 12 games – he missed four in August and September due to injury – he only gave two assists on 15 key passes and did not score, despite his multiple attempts with 14 shots that were fruitless.
In Bergamo, Bellingham was Bellingham again and confirmed that he wants to earn stripes in a team that has been living between a rock and a hard place since the season started due to doubts and uncertainty. The Englishman is a good leader and now, after a start below his level, also on the field with goals and appearing in key moments, already with 6 goals and 10 assists in all competitions this season.