Professionals in the world of football often say that there are few things in life that allow you to take a revenge so clearly, than this very sport.
And the match that will take place this Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at the Metropolitan Wanda is a clear example of this for one of the footballers who will be on the lawn of the mattress stadium. We are talking about who right now is perhaps one of the fittest players on the entire European scene, of course the
Atlético de Madrid it is.
We talk about Marcos Llorente. The Madrid player, who since March last year has become, reconversion into an attacker by means of, one of the most decisive footballers, meets someone who in his career did not hold him in high esteem.
We refer to Julen lopetegui. The now coach of Seville He was a Madrid coach in his time at the Real Madrid. Short stage on the other hand. He barely gave him three games at that stage, one of the reasons that accumulated to leave the club.
The Basque only gave less minutes to five players from that squad and we talked about homegrown players or newcomers like Mayoral, Kiko Casilla, Javi Sánchez, Lunin or Vallejo.
The great season that Marcos Llorente performed in the Alaves earned him his return to Madrid in the summer of 2017, being even the Mvp of the World Cup final Clubs who took the white box, made him appear as one of the players with a more promising future in Chamartin. It was postulated as the relief and direct competition of Casemiro in the pivot position, but later, after being ignored by Zidane, Lopetegui and Solari, ended up leaving the Real
Madrid to end in Athletic.
And the rest is history. A difficult start, a reconversion into an attacker, a magical night in Anfield and the beginning of a cyclone that continues to this day and that even led it to be an absolute international with Spain.
A RED AND WHITE PILLAR
For him there are already 12 goals and seven assists in a season and a half in the Athletic, two goals in his last three appearances. And right now he is the team's third leading scorer this season, with seven goals and three assists, just behind Joao
Felix (eight goals and four passes) and Luis Suarez (nine goals and two assists).
Simeone has no doubts that he is a true player cannon. ”He is an all-around player, he can play anywhere in the middle of the court, he has vertigo, speed, goal, work, movement … It is important that he manages records in different positions because it is a virtue that he can play on the wing, in the middle, as a second striker … A virtue for him and for the coach who has it ”, he explained about him a few months ago.
Some in the Bernabeu they still wonder how he was let slip. But to get to that situation, situations had to occur
“It was very clear to me that I had to leave Real Madrid) “, explained the player in an interview with the magazine ‘The Sportsman's Club
'. “When the offer of the Athletics I did not hesitate. Now things are working out very, very well. I am very happy about it. When a player has minutes, he grows, he becomes a better player, and that is what is happening to me now, ”he said.