The match that changed everything for Yannick Carrasco

very important game for Atletico Madrid in the current season the one who disputes in the Camp Nou before him FC Barcelona. And a good part of the options of the mattress team to prevail in the Catalan feud will go through their boots. We refer to Yannick Carrasco.

Perhaps the effect has been blurred a little ‘Carrasco‘ in these two weeks of break due to international commitments, but the truth is that before this parenthesis, the Belgian had been the best player in the Athletic in the last games.

His exhibition before the Valencia in the shock of Wanda Metropolitano that gave way to the aforementioned break, was simply a first. The footballer went into ‘Devil mode’ and raised a game, accompanied by Correa Y Cunha, who seemed lost at rest.

Against the team, Ché finished off twice, had an 86% passing rate, made seven successful dribbles out of the eight he tried, only lost two balls and generated four dangerous chances, the most. He was also the one who put the most crosses in the area -five- and of course the one who made the most dribbles. But the fact is that this performance was not something punctual because before Athletic, Villarreal Y Lightning He had already been one of the best.

The Belgian is the one who has distributed the most assists this season among all competitions (six) and the one who has also generated the most scoring chances (39), in addition to being the team’s most unbalancing weapon – he has completed more than twice as many dribbles (80) than any other red-and-white player (Thomas Lemar, 34)-, according to data from choose.

Now, the international measures his desire and his quality in a feud that he already turned upside down two seasons ago and against a rival he already knocked down one season ago. TO Carrasco he is particularly good at Barça. In the first round of last year, his goal against Barça he was already a winner. The Belgian was smarter than Ter Stegen on a long ball and a crazy exit from the German, he shook it off with a subtle touch and scored with a shot from more than 25 meters.

THE MATCH THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

But in addition, the Camp Nou for him it was a turning point at the beginning of this second stage in the Athletic. He had arrived in the winter market after not competing in two months and little by little he was taking shape until he exploded against the Catalan team for that 2-2 of the 19/20 season. A start of his in the first quarter of an hour from the dividing line of the center of the field, surpassing by speed to Gerard Pique, ended with his demolition in the area by the Chilean Arturo vidal and the first favorable penalty for the rojiblanco team.

Before he had put a sung goal pass in a free kick that neither the Uruguayan Josema Gimenez ni Diego Costa They finished off by centimeters. And the second rojiblanco goal also came from a penalty caused by him, in a very slight touch of the Portuguese Nelson Semedo. That shock meant for him a change of trend and Simeone He bet on him again until he became the key player he is today.

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Javier G. Gomara