The Barca attacker only needed 77 seconds to show that he has a special idyll with the goal
Ansu Fati returned once more from injury and he did it to show that he is a defining player. The young winger, barely 19 years old, took the field of Benito Villamarín with 14 minutes to go and energized a game that looked doomed to a goalless draw. He scored on the first substitution, 77 seconds after entering the grass, left a good feeling and showed that he needs very little to make the difference. It is the flagship of the new culé project and it shows in each of its returns.
“He has a star, a purpose… it costs others more. He’s told me he’s better at the band and he hooked it up. He has two, puts one in and the other is dangerous. It has a star. He’s comfortable around the area and even when it hurts, he goes in,” Xavi said on Saturday after another return of the most anticipated player by Barcelona fans. Ansu Fati entered the field of play and changed the face of a match that seemed stuck with a goal that cherishes many of the virtues of the new ’10’ culé. He got up front, set the break others miss and crossed an undetectable semi-miss ball for Rui Silva. A bitten shot, another testament to how easily the ball lands in the rival team’s net.
And it is this season that Ansu Fati has shown through drops, through injuries, that he has not lost that idyll with purpose, however long he has spent in the infirmary. He has played just 485 minutes between the League, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup and Champions League, enough time to sign more than worthy numbers given his long history of absences. He’s scored six goals and provided an assist, or whatever, he’s contributing a goal every 69 minutes. No one in the culé roster, including Aubameyang (109), Ousmane Dembélé (140), Memphis Depay (167) or Ferran Torres (142) needs so little time to make a decisive impact on the rival goal.
No one at Can Barça can compare the punching power with Ansu Fati, who resembles Guadiana in the Andalusia where he grew up. The ’10’ appears and disappears and always does, leaving a trail of illusion in a Barcelona fan who knows he is the player who should carry the flag in rebuilding the team. The confidence of Xavi, who assured that “it is a very good feeling to have him back” is that of a coach who is aware that he needs a plus to compete next season with the greatest of the old continent and that this plus It can only be given to you by a player who has something special.
Barça secured the final ticket to the next Champions League at Villamarín this Saturday and that may add to the caution at Ansu Fati. The main goal of the culé this season has already been achieved and the idea of Xavi and the medical staff is to make the player’s acclimatization as gradual as possible, without taking any risks with a footballer who has suffered like few others from the danger of relapse. There are only three games left before a summer that could serve as a resting point for a new season that looks exciting for the Catalans and in which this time is expected to be definitive for their most important value going forward.
Source: La Verdad
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