He wears number 20 and, who knows, he may wear number 21 soon, but the position in which he plays is that of the sixwhich is already a novelty for him, because his role in the team for the current season was well defined in the preseason: He counted more as a midfielder than as an interior. He had already finished the previous campaign in that place, but it had been due to an injury to the starter until then, Omenuke Mfulu, but his great contribution to the promotion in the final games convinced both Xavi García Pimienta such as Luis Helguera that the helmsman in the highest category had to be led by him.
And he has convinced especially when the team has the ball. The progression has been evident, so much so that even the player himself recognized it just after UD Las Palmas added their third victory in Villarreal last Sunday (1-2). The one from Candelaria assured that “little by little” he is adapting “more to the pivot position.” «Every time I can receive a little more alone. That’s when you notice that I’m better positioned.», he added in the same sense.
In some way, he has had to adapt to a position other than that of the interior, which allowed him to reach the attack more frequently. In fact, when he scored his great goal against Granada, he did so at a moment in the match when he was part of a double pivot because the team had been left with one less due to the expulsion of Mika Mármol, so he was able to drop out several times until in The last one took a control and a left foot, with a thread, to the square.
He then relived the moments of happiness of the 2021-22 season, when he pierced the rival goal up to four times with shots from outside the area, once at Heliodoro, and three consecutive against Leganés, Ponferradina and Amorebieta. UD, under the command of the Catalan coach, had found in him and Jonathan Viera a fantasy interior couple with which the yellow team managed to reach the playoff in the best end of the season in its history, however, the cancer He stopped the Tenerife native.
First toll, then prize
Fortunately, he overcame it, but the sporting toll was missing nine months of competition in which Loio sayswho at the time of UD’s takeoff two years ago was out due to a shoulder operation that was going to keep him out until the following season, replaced him, with good performance.
Kirian was finally able to make his debut at the end of April, although he was in a position to do so a month before, but Mfulu’s injury definitively opened the door for him. He coincided with the Frenchman and the captain, who was limping, and the UD ran with him on the handle.
A handful of games were enough for the coach and the sports management to convince themselves that the man from Candelaria had to be the midfielder in First Division, along with Nuke and Fabio, who was injured in the preseason and that is why Perrone arrived, but to play more as interior. The Argentine as interior and Kirian as midfielder: it was the established plan.
And the execution is positive, although at a defensive level the Tenerife player has been surpassed at times. It is part of the appropriate progression of the new six.
2023-10-12 20:22:49
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