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Real Madrid. Benzema's smile and relief: from an injury that compromised everything to league survival
It's no news that
Marco Asensio's
career
went awry on
July 24, 2019
.
That day, in a fight with Aubameyang in the second half of a friendly between
Real Madrid and Arsenal
, the Spaniard crashed.
He suffered a
tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and the external meniscus of his left knee
and today, 15 months later, he still has not recovered.
His leg has a scar, but so does his football.
You have to mark an 'X' on that afternoon in Washington to understand the current situation of the
most promising footballer that Madrid has had
in recent years.
It was 23 and its market value had just reached
90 million euros a
few months earlier
, according to
Transfermarkt
.
A price higher than that now being valued for
Rashford, Ansu Fati
, De Ligt, or Kai Havertz, the same as
Lukaku or Oblak
and ten less than
Joao Félix or Jadon Sancho
.
World superstar price.
Time passed, he spent the rehabilitation of the injury, spent his turn and spent his settlement in the starting XI of
Zinedine Zidane
.
And now Marco Asensio
is 25 years old
, he is valued at
35 million euros
, he adds
a goal or an assist every 474 minutes
and his star has stopped shining as he used to.
It is the
11th with the highest market value in Madrid
, the 18th in Spain, the 35th in the League and the 172nd in the world.
There are no longer impossible goals for
Ter Stegen's
squad
at the Camp Nou
, or in Munich in the
Champions
semi-finals
, or at the Bernabéu against Bayern to finalize the extension of a few quarters, or a rocket against Sevilla to reach the Super Cup , or even in a European Cup final, such as
Juventus in Cardiff
in his first season in white.
The patience and the illusion of Madrid
Washington's 'X' changed the future of the Balearic
Islands
and
upset Madrid's plans
, which had been counting on him to make a trio with
Hazard and Benzema
since the Belgian arrived.
The club still trusts him, he has had and wants to be patient in that he will regain his level and he has made it known, but at the Bernabéu it is admitted that
the title in the attack is not going to be so cheap
.
The hornet's nest will move and although in Chamartín they have been dreaming of seeing Asensio as a star of the team and the national team for years,
reality does not wait for anyone
.
Zidane has insisted on him and he has responded at times, more with symptoms than with regularity, but he has ended up lost in his own fear.
In the derby, Asensio
did not dribble or shoot
and was the Madrid player with the fewest touches of the ball: 31. Even Courtois participated more (40).
Not a foul or a tackle, a bad control, a loss, 76% pass and
6.21 average
mark
, according to the
WhoScored
website
.
The third lowest of the team.
In this League, he
makes one shot on goal per game
, for the 1.8 he averaged in 2017, and gives 0.8 key passes per game compared to the 1.6 of that season.
That year he reached 11 goals and 6 assists, records with which he excited the fans, the board of directors and the coaching staff.
He came back well from injury, with three goals, but 20-21 is not being his season.
Hazard and Benzema's injuries
Until Rodrygo's injury against Granada in December, Asensio had played 20 games, 8 of them as a starter.
844 minutes in which he had neither scored nor assisted
, but which were justified in his recovery.
After the loss of the young Brazilian, Zidane has granted the Balearic all possible titles and the footballer has only left moments.
1,004 minutes, 2 goals and an assist.
He scored against Celta and Levante, shone against
Huesca
and faded until the derby.
And the summary of his productivity in the 1,900 minutes he has played takes him further every day from
the calls of a demanding Luis Enrique
.
Neither with
Hazard's
injury
nor with
Benzema's loss
has he been seen to be more participatory, more incisive, more vertical, more than he was before the injury, and that is missed by Madrid.
He has not played an entire match for a month and in the last two duels Zidane has changed his match time to give the team more rhythm, with good reason.
Vinicius, with his shortcomings, has been more electric
and courageous in his interventions.
Now
Hazard
, owner of the left wing, will
return
and
Rodrygo will press
on the right.
The Madrid train accelerates and we will see if Asensio clings to it.
Asensio's numbers
Season 16-17
: 38 games, 19 starters.
10 goals and 4 assists.
Goal / As every 137 m.
17-18
: 53 games, 28 starters.
11 and 6. Goal / As every 168 m.
18-19
: 44 games, 24 starters.
6 and 9. Goal / As every 158 m.
19-20
: 10 games, 3 starters.
3 and 1. Goal / As every 90 m.
20-21
: 32 games, 22 starters.
2 and 2. Goal / As every 474 m.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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