When Isco Alarcón came out to warm up the Sánchez Pizjuán band, Sevilla fans celebrated. Julen Lopetegui’s team is stuck against a Valladolid that is growing and the Basque will appeal to his quality and standard on the ball so that the necessary spaces appear as if by magic.
When he came off the field the applause turned into a standing ovation. More than 15,000 Sevilla fans were present at his debut a week ago. The debut was expected and the expectation was great. The former madridista replaced Papu Gómez and went out on the field as the man in charge of moving the ball around, a task in which no one doubts his outstanding quality.
However, at the time, Valladolid, guided by an omnipresent Aguado, was gaining ground in midfield. The match was largely split up and moves came and went. And that’s where Isco showed his range of shortcomings. He was never a paragon of physical strength, but the rhythm the match took ended up revealing a footballer who had been inactive for too long. Neither the work with the personal trainer, nor the few days in which he exercised with the group could not be seen on the Sánchez Pizjuán pitch.
Shipwreck next to Rakitic in midfield
Isco’s form is far from his best version, the one that the excited Nervionian public expected when the Benalmádena player took to the pitch. A back race against a rival left him with evidence. He and Rakitic, another player in an alarming physical decline at the age of 34, drowned against the Pucelano midfield. Valladolid scored at the loss of Ocampos, anxiety rose, Rekik equalized with an unlucky release from Asenjo and the final minutes were a will and I couldn’t. A continuous attack with more passion than head, what Isco should provide at the service of his new team.
Lopetegui, if he surrounds himself with the right football players, is capable of recovering the best Isco and the man from Malaga has arrived at the perfect place, where, for example, a Banega appeared in the sky that came under the lowest conditions and in the midst of many doubts and continuous scandals in Valencia. But he needs time, to regain his lost physique and get the rhythm of the competition, something that the former magician of El Arroyo de la Miel clearly lacks at the moment.
Source: La Verdad
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