Nor is it Ferland mendy a player who garners praise in the matches of the Real Madrid. What’s more, there are more voices that question his contribution to the team that highlight the virtues of the French left-back. But who decides, Carlo Ancelotti, has little doubt that the player born in Meulan-en-Yvelines it is an added value for the security that your equipment needs.
For this reason, since the Frenchman recovered from the injury that had him stopped since mid-May, he has not stopped being a starter. Mendy had to wait until the hearing at Shakhtar in Kiev (October 19) to be able to play. Since then he has played in all the games and only stopped being a starter in Elche, where he entered for Marcelo with 25 minutes to go.
When analyzing the best in defense of Madrid this season, the starting point is set at the Olympic in Kiev. The analysts explain that in that game Ancelotti changed the way of defending, that he devised a plan with the center of the field closer to Courteous.
But what is indisputable is that from the entrance of Mendy As a team, Madrid do not lose, they are more powerful in defense and have conceded seven goals in 15 games in which they have not lost (0.46 on average). Before, without Mendy, the average was 1.2 per game (12 in 10) and fell to Sheriff and Espanyol.
When you are a Madrid player, you see him on TV with the baby in your arms … and Mendy marks
All of that makes Mendy a unique player in the elite of European football. Of the 758 players in the five major leagues who have started at least 14 times like Mendy, only the winger of the Real Madrid presents a card on which the word defeat does not appear.
It is not weird. Because since he arrived in Chamartín losing is not when Mendy plays, it is an exception for Madrid. Of the 85 games he has played in the white jersey, he has only lost 10. That ranking of fewer defeats from August 2019 to today tops it Lucas Hernandez (only 5 in 81). If the cut is put on at least Mendy’s 75 starts, the first is another Bayern player: Gnabry, eight defeats in 81 starting games. With 10 are Mendy (75), Henderson (Liverpool and 92 starts) and Pavard (92 at Bayern).
With all these data in hand, it is clear that Madrid with Mendy on the field is safer. Of the seven goals that the team of Ancelotti with the French in the field, only the Omen In the Classic he puts the Frenchman in focus in a play in which Dest surpassed him to put the pass to the Argentine.
The company you have formed with Alaba in defense it is increasingly greased. They have been a perfect fit from the get-go. Some say that in attack Mendy moves badly and sometimes damages Vinicius. It is evident that it will never be the best Marcelo, although the Brazilian started his fourth season at Madrid with four goals, which are the same as Mendy as a madridista.
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