One of the attractions of the Granada-Barça match this Sunday (9 pm) at the Nuevo Los Cármenes Stadium is attending an exciting duel between the dribblers. As the football world continues to marvel at the surprising emergence into the elite of a sixteen-year-old like Lamine Yamal At Barça, at Granada, they cling to exciting elements that make them believe that third to last place in the table is a circumstantial trance. One of them is Bryan Zaragoza, very prominent leader in the list of dribblers played in the first 8 days of the championship.
To measure his mettle with a resource that is a rare commodity in contemporary football, the 22-year-old winger from Malaga added 51 successful dribbles in 8 league games, 15 more than Jonathan Bamba for Celta and 16 more than Rodrygo Goes, Real Madrid winger at Real Madrid. These three names lead to a relationship where, for example, the Madrid player Vinicius Junior, although injured in recent weeks, accumulates, with 24, less than half as many good dribbles as of Zaragoza.
Lamine Yamal added 17 dribbles in the time he had to the imbalance in his electric football at Barça. So far this season he has played 515 minutes in 10 games, with two assists in his stats.
All of Bryan Zaragoza’s coaches were surprised by his great ability to overflow. With just turned 22 years old, his 164 centimeters tall They grow as soon as they see a ball. He has a contract until 2027 with Granada, who quickly renewed him until 2027 when, at the end of his return to the First Division last season, he feared that his footballer with the greatest potential, taking advantage of the fact that the his contract in 2024, will be tempted by some good players. He arrived at Granada in 2019 from modest Conejito Malaga, where his dribbling has already caught the attention of teams such as Atlético, Sevilla or Celta. Given its evolution, choosing Granada is not a bad choice.
Able to exploit his excellent individual challenge ability on both wings although he is right-footed, Bryan Zaragoza also has an impressive ball strike. In the current League he has scored three goals and one assist in 502 minutes divided into 8 games. Last season he contributed 5 goals and one assist in 36 appearances to his team’s promotion.
He started his career as a footballer in his native Málaga when he started standing in Conejito, one of the most classic clubs in Malaga youth football, arriving in Granada in 2019 when he was a teenager.
It is not surprising that, on the occasion of his last contract extension in May, Zaragoza thanked him for his determined commitment to Granada. “I owe everything to this shield and these fans. Granada bet me to be in a neighborhood team,” he said. The “neighborhood” style defined his football, including that trajectory since Conejitos that even led him to a loan to Poli Ejido in 2020, until he jumped to the first team in 2021. He fills his tactical deficits that there are many videos and corrections from the hands of technicians who, in exchange for that Achilles heel, have found so many talents on a ball worth working with, such as Aitior Karanka, former coach Robert Moreno and now Paco López. On Sunday, with Bryan Zaragoza and Lamine Yamal, you can see a game that seems from another era where almost every team has a dribbler.
Source: La Verdad
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