Sancet amazes in the League and demands the attention of Spanish football

With great talents, sometimes it is difficult to agree.

Although in the case of

(Pamplona, ​​2000), the lack of definition sometimes reaches the extreme.

Nobody is capable of clarifying if he is a better midfielder or forward, or if he is a midfielder, a second striker or an interior.

But he does arrive and finish off like angels.

It says a lot about this lack of definition that as a child he noticed both the artistic torrent of

and the peaceful creativity of

.

Nobody can explain either why his popularity peaks - he scored three goals against Cádiz last Friday - are threaded with others of little attention.

There is more.

Some see him as a jewel from the Lezama youth academy, while others extol his training at Tajonar, recalling that it was not until he was 15 years old that he reached the lower categories of Athletic, which recruited him from the Osasuna cadet team.

There is not even a consensus on the nickname, well Lynx, well Deer.

He himself seems to clarify the doubt when he celebrates the goals by drawing the deer's horns.

Sancet gives off the confusion typical of footballers who are special.

Sancet, who is celebrating his fourth season in the Athletic first team, once again claimed the attention of Spanish football after his exhibition in the aforementioned Bilbao victory against Cádiz.

He broke the ball in the first goal with his right foot, displayed a sense of opportunism after a chain error by opposing defenders in the second, and showed power in the open field and finishing with his left foot in the third.

After a first round of the championship in which no player in the League had been able to bag a

, Sancet caught his -his second of his with the Athletic shirt- and climbed up to the watchtower of scorers for his team .

He is already the top scorer for the team coached by

with seven goals.

Not only that.

He's already beaten his own record for goals in a campaign, surpassing six from last season.

"As you score, you play better and you are more focused," Sancet assumed on the night of San Mamés, aware that, in his case, judgment and fame remain linked to his scoring success no matter how much he plays as a midfielder. .

Even his coach, in addition to the necessary distribution tasks in the position, would like him to try to finish off more with his head.

"He is adapting, from almost a forward to almost a midfielder," Valverde ironized.

End of contract in 2024

Sancet, who has the numbers 3 and 4 tattooed on two of his fingers on his left hand -he made his Athletic debut with number 34 in August 2019, the day

said goodbye marking Barça as a Chilean-, signed in 2018 a six-year contract with Athletic.

He has just under a year and a half left, and his price threatens to continue growing.

Even more so if he ends up making the leap to the absolute.

Luis de la Fuente

says he watches between 40 and 50 games a week.

He considers it appropriate to decide who will be the footballers who will be part of his first list as coach for the qualifying matches for the Euro 2024 in Germany that will face Spain with Norway and Scotland (March 25 and 28).

And there, in addition to offering stripes to

, many of those footballers who grew up in the lower categories of the national team under his lap will begin to have a special weight.

De la Fuente, in fact, won the 2018 Mediterranean Games with the U-18 team and Sancet in the team.

In that group, by the way, also played the striker

, who this season has only three goals in the Portuguese league with Braga;

, who did not play a single minute in the last World Cup;

or

, for now with little participation in the left side of Manchester City.

De la Fuente, who also recruited Sancet for the 2021 European Under-21 Championship (although he only played 14 minutes in the semifinal elimination against Portugal), also has some members of that team in his sights for his new stage , like

, Chelsea winger and one of his fetish players, the winger

, again in Seville, and especially

, future heir to

in the midfielder of a Spain that awaits the new wave.

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