Valverde does not contemplate going home without sweating. As long as you don't run into injuries or penalties, have minutes. It is what the numbers say: The little bird not a whole game stays on the bench since November 2, 2019 (matchday 12, 0-0 vs Betis). It is not an indisputable starter, but it is a fixed in terms of minutes. When he is not in eleven, he ends up leaving from the bench. And it has an explanation.
The first of the keys is your physical. The Uruguayan has a honor registration resistance, the result of his mentality and the ability he has had Pintus to polish it in training. In England they would call it box to box. A player who goes down to the area to receive, assist in the start and, on the same play, reaches the opposite to finish. He has plenty of legs and Zidane considers it a treasure. It can withstand the 90 'without problems.
The second key is your polyvalence, playing in three different positions. The main one has been steering wheel in the center of the field, there has been 38 out of 43 matches who has disputed. It is his usual position, without the pressure of the ball coming out and with room to deploy physically. But he has also played three times as pivot, 'a la Casemiro' and two like extreme. Except in defensive positions and at the attack point, he can play wherever he is put.
Valverde has reaffirmed himself this season at Real Madrid, having played 2,707 'officers in four different competitions. He has only missed seven games, of which two were due to injury (Levante and PSG) and one for sanction (Seville). Of the other four, in one he was not called up (first match against Celta) and in three he was on the bench (Valladolid, Betis and Bruges). They are the exceptions that confirm the rule. In all the others, absolutely all the other games, he has had minutes.
Valverde, during a match against Granada.
Jesús Álvarez Orihuela (Diario AS)
A total of 640 'post quarantine
After the break not once out of the call, reason why it is extracted that, indeed, it has participated in the last eleven parties. He was a starter in seven: Valencia (L), Real Sociedad (V), Mallorca (L), Espanyol (V), Athletic (V), Granada (V) and Leganés (V). In the other four he came from the bench: he played 7 'against Eibar, 28' against Getafe, 21 'against Alavés and 6' against Villarreal. It is a diesel engine with a Uruguayan name, fireproof. If called, play.