Ten games (eight in the League and two in the Champions League) with Valverde and ten more. The start of the season has placed the Uruguayan as one of the essentials in Carlo Ancelotti's starting XI. Courtois, Benzema and Militao have been the only teammates who have shared with Valverde the honor of being in the Madrid coach's ten line-ups. Fede, 23, has barely missed 22 minutes, substituted in the last minutes against Alavés, Levante and Valencia.
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The signing of Camavinga and the relocation of Asensio (two factors to which the return of Ceballos will be added when he recovers from his injury) have increased competition in midfield. But those two obstacles have not prevented Valverde from convincing Ancelotti, who when, against Villarreal, found no space for him in the medullary placed him on the right side.
With its high minute volume, the fifteen white is the leader of his team (considering League and Champions matches) in passes given in the opposite field (379); second in passes completed in the last third of the field (238, after Benzema's 251) and dribbles completed (13, compared to Vinicius's 31); and third in intercepted passes (14, behind Militao's 17 and Nacho's 16).
Advanced statistics of Fede Valverde.
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He is also the leader in minutes played. In Madrid they are surpassed by Courtois and Militao, who have played everything, and Benzema, who has only lost 12 minutes. But to his participation with Madrid, Valverde adds another three meetings in which he intervened with his team in the September break. 262 minutes, which added to the 878 with the white team, accumulate 1,140 minutes. He played full matches against Bolivia (he scored a goal) and Ecuador and Óscar Tabárez only did without him in the last eight minutes of the first match, against Peru.
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Valverde is also indisputable for the coach of the Light blue. In the last two and a half years he has only missed two games, both due to injury.. And it will be important again in this international break, in which Uruguay faces a triple commitment of substance: against Colombia, its executioner in the quarterfinals of the last Copa América, Argentina and Brazil. The latter, a fratricidal duel between Madrid players against Casemiro, Vinicius and Militao.