One assist, one penalty scored and his goal locker has yet to be released. That’s the poor baggage of Walid Cheddira in his first nine games with the shirt of RCD Espanyolthat he came last summer on loan from Naples. The Moroccan, scorer of seven goals in the last Serie A including Frosinonewas chosen, along with the Argentine Alejo Velizto fill the gap left by Martin Braithwaite in front of the parakeet. “This is the profile of the player we want, for the one and two up system. He makes a good age match with Veliz,” said the Espanyol sports director. Fran Garagarzaduring its official presentation.
Its beginnings are promising. He made his debut in the 0-0 win at the Metropolitano, showing himself to be lively and involved, and was decisive in the first two victories in the return to the First Division: attendance suitcase in his suffering (and unique moment) goal against the Rayo Vallecano and force the penalty that marked the third goal of Javi Puado in Alavés. Three performances that gave him his first start in a full Santiago Bernabéu.
however, Cheddar He barely participated in the game and was replaced at half time by Manolo Gonzalez. “We were looking for that point of speed that he is superior to Veliz. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find it and we didn’t use it much,” lamented the coach post-match.
The feeling, since then, like most of his colleagues, the performance of Walid decreases until it reaches the lowest level in front of Sevillewith enough two punches of Dodi Lukebakio to attack Cornellà-El Prat and torment the locals with their second straight defeat, the fifth in the last six days.
As always, Cheddar He struggled against the opposition defence, but once again he was too far from scoring, being replaced by suitcase in the 58th minute And, despite the fact that in a press conference Manolo Wanting to underline the importance of starting to keep a clean sheet (the Espanyol just failed to concede against Atlético), the blue and white focus is already starting on the attackers, whose numbers (one goal in 11 games in league) is just light years away. out of 10 signatories Braithwaite (3) and Joselu Mato (7) in the same number of games in the 2022-23 season or in six of Raul de Tomas in 2021-22.
Source: La Verdad
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