Praise is not praise – AS.com

David Alaba is not David Alaba. At least not the David Alaba who made Real Madrid fall in love and provided the non-negotiable backbone of Bayern Munich’s recent successes. In his debut at the white club he fought any pressure attempt with ease. He did not mind inheriting the ‘4’ from Ramos, he gave away a celebration that turned a chair into an icon and he finished the course as he started it, being indisputable (with 4,071 minutes, he was the fourth most used player on the team), on his own merits, for Ancelotti. Role with which he started the current season and that he has maintained. However, performance is light years away from the importance of it. Olocip telegraph this reality and place its season as the worst since the company specialized in applying AI to football collects data, from 2016-17…

With your actions, Alaba accumulates a value of 0.10 per 90 minutes. In other words, it helps Madrid score or avoid one goal more than expected every 10 games. To put it in context, last season he finished with 0.275, generating a goal for the white team every 3.6 games. Your roof? 2020-21 with Bayern, the last one in Munich, where he said goodbye with a value of 0.36 (a goal in favor of his club every 2.8 games). Your soil? The aforementioned 2016-17, where the 0.27 made him generate a goal every 3.7 games, slightly below his first year at Paseo de la Castellana.

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The Austrian started the current season as pichichi, with goals against Eintracht in the European Super Cup and against Almería in the League. Anecdote he leads the scoring table, but it made him start the campaign with the same joy with which he finished the last one. However, from there, he is seeing an unknown Alaba. Quantitatively, he adds the two aforementioned goals, three assists and has played 1,806 minutes in 23 games. Either as a center back (16 games) or left back (7), Carletto trust him. In fact, he is the third most used footballer. But it is qualitatively where Olocip he puts numbers to the sensations that slip from his wobbly performances.

downturn in construction

This season, Alaba is not managing to provide the security and grounds that he is supposed to. And especially noteworthy is the downturn that he is experiencing in a task where he has been setting a chair for years, the departure of the ball. If Militao was physical, Alaba was the talent to start the game for Ancelotti’s men. His excellent construction capacity was the value that placed him among the best defenders in the world. A value that has been reduced by half with respect to its, until now, worst course. From 0.12 of 2016-17, to 0.06 of the current one. And light years from 0.23 of 2019-20. Alaba is being less accurate and more impetuous than usual and that is reflected in this performance slide.

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Straddling the center of defense and the left back, that versatility is being a double-edged sword for Alaba. With the arrival of Rüdiger, the return of the Viennese to the ‘3’ lane was suspected, to accommodate the German and displacing a Mendy about whom there were doubts. The season has drawn two realities: only the rotation has separated the Frenchman from ownership and, on the other hand, Alaba’s performance on the left-handed side is not meeting expectations. Neither one nor the other is 100% convincing, hence, as reported by AS, Alphonso Davies appears as a target for 2024.

Setback to start the year

In the present, the Spanish Super Cup was presented as the first great opportunity for Alaba to recover his level. Absent in the World Cup as Austria stayed on the shore, he had a happy break He played two friendlies with his team, against Andorra and Italy, crowned with a direct free kick that killed the Azure. Before the relaunch, he raised his ninth award for soccer player of the year in his country and against Valladolid and Villarreal he played the 180 minutes. He only missed the cup match in Cáceres, where Ancelotti rested his most important footballers. But with the trip to Riyadh just around the corner, a soleus injury has prevented him from boarding the plane. on paper, between three and four weeks off. The worst way to start a 2023 where Alaba seeks to rediscover himself.