The first European leagues started in the first week of August. Ligue 1 and the Premier League took center stage at the weekend of the new month. The expectation was to see the debut of Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda in a rented one in which he was finally going to have minutes from the first game of the season, as it is worth remembering that he arrived at the beginning of 2022 when the tournament had already started. However, a disallowed goal and a shot at the post, in addition to a substitution in the 78th minute, conditioned his first game.
Jürgen Klopp in a press conference once the game ended tied at two goals against Fulham at Craven Cottage, he referred to the Colombian who could have performed better on the pitch. As if that were not enough, he received the first criticism of the season from Jamie O’Hara, a former Tottenham player who said that he is not the right player to replace Sadio Mané. The one who did have a great role in the Premier League was Jefferson Lerma who scored one of Bournemouth’s two goals against Aston Villa.
Bournemouth just got promoted to the Premier League after a great Championship. With Jefferson Lerma as one of the banners to be promoted to the highest category, the Colombian appeared in the first game of the Premier contributing in one of the goals. Lerma was a central defender in that opening match and had an impact on the goal in a corner.
Another of the leagues that started was Ligue 1 with a Luis Javier Suárez who only needed half an hour to be a figure in the categorical victory of Olympique de Marseille against Stade de Reims by 4-1 at the Orange Vélodrome. The samarium who made his debut with the Marseille team scored a brace and stole the front pages of the prestigious French newspaper, L’Équipe.
Thus, Luis Javier Suárez is already giving something to talk about in Ligue 1, a tournament in which players like Lionel Andrés Messi, Neymar Jr and Kylian Mbappé meet, difficult competitors for Suárez. It won’t be easy but he has already made history with his double and stealing the pages of the newspaper mentioned above. Both Jefferson Lerma and Luis Javier managed to put their name in the ideal XI of South Americans in Europe.
This was the eleventh choice, Ederson (Manchester City); Marquinhos (PSG), Gilberto (Benfica), Claudio Winck (Maritime); Jefferson Lerma (Bournemouth), Enzo Fernandez (Benfica), Neymar Jr (PSG), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal); Lionel Messi (PSG), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool FC) and Luis Javier Suarez (Olympique Marseille).
