He is talked about almost daily. Ok, it won’t be with the same fierceness that they refer to Kane, Salah or De Bruyne, but it doesn’t go unnoticed when analyzing the Premier League current affairs. Usually it is compliments, congratulations, while in your country it is all questions and doubts. Does it have to be said in English, does James Rodríguez’s enormous influence on a team like Everton want to be real?
Let’s take a look at what the British press has been saying in recent hours, as Everton has an eight-game streak ahead of it that it can’t fail if it wants to grab one of the next Champions League tickets.
Against Crystal Palace, the Liverpool Echo qualified him by 8 points and chose the figure of the match for him, despite the disappointing 1-1 as the reality is there was no one better. “The Colombian international was one of the few players on the field from either side who looked calm and collected. At times it was as if he had multiple corners of everyone in front of him and controlled the game like a puppeteer.” the medium at the time
“The hosts trained heavily on him to try to solve emergencies or find smart football to try and break through a determined palace defense in his final third,” he added.
That they adore him in that paper, that they are happy to have a player with a poster in a mid-table club in England. Well, then other adjectives need to be revised, this time from the Daily Mail.
“It should be a relief for Everton fans to see James recover from injury and score in Monday night’s draw with Crystal Palace. It’s very important in the creative strength of the team,” he said.
He added: “Carlo Ancelotti’s team is in eighth place and he will have to close a five-point gap with the top four in the remaining nine games, but his chances of doing so are greatly increased with the Colombian midfielder. in the team.”
Compliments that come and go and are not the only ones. Now coach Carlo Ancelotti, so criticized for replacing his punt and giving up a draw, will have to decide whether to use it twice in seven days or switch with Iwobi, who was returning from injury. But judging by the critics’ opinion, it would be the least intelligent of the options.
The risk is of being left out of the Champions League, which is why betting on the left-handed magic is worth it, yes or yes. No matter what. More laudatory pages can be written as he repeats a performance next Monday like he did against Brighton on Monday. In any case, it will be difficult on this side of the world to recognize it no matter what it does …