The decline in performance of some of Real’s cracks also explains why this team seems different from the one that dazzled halfway through the championship. If Real reached third place, even threatening Madrid’s second place, it was, among other things, due to the decisive contribution to the offensive level of its two midfielders, the sides of the magical midfield diamond: the purposes and services of Brace and the aids of Michael Merino. The game system with four in the middle allowed them to reach the area more and the explosions from the Galician and Navarrese second line destroyed the defenses and marked the differences in the most balanced games. the nonsense of hutthat has not lost his influence or creativity, and the goals of Sorlothwhich was longed for, did something else.
But now they seem to have changed Merino and, above all, to a Brace leading to a 2023 with a counter to zero and a dangerous lack of confidence. The Galician data is surprising for the negative now as for the positive until the last day of 2022. The one from Mos closed last year with a galactic record of 10 goals and seven assists in 23 stakes. It is rare to see a League, Cup or Europa League game where he does not participate in a goal action. Now he has accumulated 16 official appointments without celebrating a goal and not signing an assist, all this in 2023. His last ‘txitxarro’ started on December 31, against Osasuna.
Something similar, although with less intensity, occurs with Merino. Navarrese is the top solo assister in the League, with the last seven passes. For now, he remains in the top 3 and he signed his last assist on January 8 against Almería. His production contribution was limited to two goals, also away: on October 19 against Mallorca in the Liga and on November 13 in the Cup against Cazalegas.
Another one of the prospects and victims of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome’, is Sorloth. As of January 21, he has scored 12 goals, five of them on consecutive days in the League. Since then, he has had an empty door against the Spaniard.
Source: La Verdad
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