“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask, act! The action will delineate and define you”. It is one of the head phrases that I had Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the USA. It is a sentence that adapts perfectly to what you are living Marco Asensio. For a long time, the head of the Spaniard focused on the battle of being a starter in Madrid above all else. It was the original idea of Zidane when he returned in 2019 and started a project in the summer of that year in which the line of attack was clear in the base plan: Asensio-Benzema-Hazard. In that preseason came the injury that changed everything.
Today, Asensio is a very important player for Charles Ancelotti without having title stripes, and many times not even first change. The winner of the fight to be in the eleven next to Vinicius and Benzema it’s been a while Fede Valverde. And the figure of player number 12 is for Rodrygo.
Far from abandoning himself, something that Ancelotti suffers from in other players on his squad, Asensio He has chosen the path of adding whenever they let him do it, of sending the message to his coach that every time he is sent to the field he will respond. It was not an easy battle to face and digest, but Asensio He has been able to recover the ceded ground.
Of the unit of 18 players that Ancelotti really has, there are only two with fewer minutes than Asensio’s 1,351: they are ceballos (1.083) y Lucas Vazquez (990). But when goals per minutes played are counted, only Benzema (one every 109) improves when shooting (one every 149).
Why Marco Asensio presents a roadmap this season in which 10 goals already appear: seven in LaLiga and three in the Champions. That means that he is only two away from his ceiling, the one he reached last season.
Goal by Asensio (2-0) in Real Madrid 2-0 Chelsea.
With its renewal to be resolved in the coming weeks, Asensio He has understood that in this way he is an important player for Ancelotti. That is not giving up the fight to be a starter, but it is understanding that you can be essential for the team from a different role. “I think Asensio is having the same level as last year, he is decisive because he marks the ones he has”, explained the Italian coach after the match in Cadiz.
And Asensio renews will do so from the perspective of ownership impossible in the present and almost even more in the future. Vinicius y Rodrygo they are far from the highest point they can reach. and the figure of Endrick already shines from Brazil a year after his arrival. But at 27 years old, Asensio the question has been answered Jefferson and he knows who he is through his deeds, his goals. Ancelotti looks with satisfaction at this way of facing the present of the Balearic Islands. And the one who wins is the Madridwho adds to his cause a player who will not be the world figure he was presumed to be, but who can give him a lot in the present and in the future.
2023-04-17 06:55:12
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