The critics of James Rodríguez are going to need new arguments in 2022, other than the lack of continuity, little competition, the succession of physical problems.
Since the return of the Qatar League, for Christmas 2021, he has never failed: he played the last four games and registered three assists. Complies. And he has not been injured, which is not a small thing. Another discussion is that his team adds two defeats and two victories and cannot sustain the advantages due to its defensive weaknesses, especially.
He comes from a double, one with the right hand and the other with a nice left-handed free kick goal, and that not only triggers his confidence but has served to sign a round number: 100 goals in the 8 professional leagues in which he has played.
They have benefited from its magic Envigado (9 goals), Banfield (5), Porto (25), Monaco (9), Real Madrid (29), Bayern Munich (14), Everton (6) and Al Rayyan (3), since the debut, in the distant 2006.
This is, in addition, the seventh time in his career that the creative lored a double and an assist in the same game (the last antecedent was in 2020, against Brighton in the Premier League), which is not a small thing considering that Qatar is the league weakest in which it has acted, since the others were top leagues.
So, with only 17 days left to face Peru in Barranquilla, it is inevitable to be delighted with the inspiration of who was the best on the field in the last outing against Paraguay (0-0) for the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers. From here until that call he will have two more games to put minutes in his legs … just in case.
It is true that Luis Díaz is also inspired, that Muriel is another with a double in the last weekend, that Zapata was doing well until the injury and he seems to be taking care of himself for his country, that Falcao is healthy, but that the passer arrives, the creator , the one with the spark that puts the ball at the feet of the strikers, is already an invitation to optimism.
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