Chuameni’s patience is over – AS.com
Aurélien Tchouameni arrived in Madrid in 2022.Mbappe was supposed to do this in the summer, but in the end it did not happen. Disappointment in the then PSG forward set in early.in May and before the Champions League final against Liverpool in Paris, which gave the club the opportunity to make a significant investment in a position that was not a priority at the time: 80 million (and another 20 on target) for Monaco in exchange for replacing Casemiro. But fate is capricious, and a few weeks later the Brazilian decided to move to United. And Chuameni, who came to learn from the master, turned out to be the owner and recipient of trust on the part of Ancelotti, which only yesterday seemed completely destroyed.
Because he never had an idyll with the stands. He arrived amid a certain amount of hype, as do all those who land from a league that isn’t much followed and scrutinized based on highlights. Currently with the nickname of the best restorer in such a demanding championship as the French one. But his path in Madrid had nothing to do with this. Where the Bernabeu expected tension and omnipresence, they found idleness and mistakes that cost goals.
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Yesterday there were two of them: with the score 0:1, Thiau jumped in a crouch and barely resisted Pulisic’s center; and with the score 1:2, he first lost the ball with a terrible pass, then very easily put pressure on Pulisic and Leao, who he allowed to shoot without any problems, and on top of that he just watched and lost the mark of Morata, who finished the ball into the net after Lunin’s save. Milan’s first goal further added to the blame (Rüdiger went to ground with a slight lead, Militao wasn’t intense either and even Lunin was able to dominate the air better) but there was admittedly little doubt about the second and those minutes , which Tchuameni had after that, were accompanied by noise. At least there weren’t many: Ancelotti sent him off after the break. When the PA system called his name, the whistle was obvious.
Numbers don’t protect Chuameni
He barely made three recoveries in 45 minutes of play, which is low for a supposed specialist in the position. But the problem goes deeper: of the four Champions League games he has played so far, he has only had 10, and since the defeat to Milan, he has had 227 with more possessions won. for his team, nine of them are teammates in his locker room. And this despite the fact that half of the teams still have to play their matches on the fourth day. After this, Chuameni is expected to move down from position 300.
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This is not an exclusive phenomenon of the Champions League, in the League it does not shine with what it should stand out. He has 44 recoveries in domestic championships; he is ahead of 19 midfielders in this statistic, such as Koke, Pepelu, Pedri, Torro, Milla… And he is not Madrid’s best recovering player in the league: Valverde improves him significantly (63). In fact, the Uruguayan is the real man who is rebuilding Madrid, since he heads this data section along with Pedri, who also has 63.
The novelty in all this is that Ancelotti is also putting his thumb down for the Frenchman without any physical problems. Surprisingly, the name of the media did not come up in the coach’s speech after the match, although he already foresaw that he would have to make adjustments to the team: “Don’t go crazy, but we need to look for solutions to be more balanced.” and hard.” This Saturday against Osasuna at the Bernabeu, it’s time to see if these decisions involve giving Tchuameni the portion of the bench he deserves.
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