Rodrigo Hernndez and Marco Asensio They are two collectors of titles. The one from City arrives as the one from the Champions League still hot and the striker with the three achieved with Real Madrid this season.
Asensio has accumulated 17 titles with the real Madridto which must be added the European sub 19 achieved at the time with the national team and the silver medal of the tokyo games. He also returns to this team to bring experience and that goal that he has but that is difficult for him to teach with Spain. He comes from scoring twelve goals this season with the Madrid team.
Rodri he was champion of Europe under 19 together with Asensio in 2015. With the team of guardiola It already has eight great titles, to which must be added a European Super Cup with the athletic in 2018.
Rodri, the king of Europe
Rodrigo Hernndez is the great hero of Manchester City. To always remain as the author of the goal that he gave to the citizens the trophy that he was missing, that he longed for, to establish himself as a full-fledged member among the giants of European football.
The man from Madrid will have to wait to digest what he has achieved in Istanbul and rest. ly Aymeric Laporte they left behind the party of the Manchester light blue, the one that yesterday celebrated in style the arrival of the orejona to the only city that can boast of having two teams with clover in their possession.
Rodri’s goal (1-0) at Manchester City 1-0 Inter Milan
Rodri comes this time to the rozas as European champion and established among the best midfielders in the world, if not the one at the top of that ranking.
Beyond the goal against Inter in the Istanbul final, Madrid’s season has been superb. The value that Rodri has in the ideas of Pep Guardiola is reflected in that no one in the Manchester City He has played more times this season than his pivot (56 games out of 61) nor has he spent more minutes on the field, a total of 4,476.
Those stripes that you have Rodri in his club they move to the selection. For Luis de la Fuente he is a vital piece, perhaps the most important of the team. In the debut of the rijan coach, the two games in March, he was the only outfield player who was on the pitch for 180 minutes.
The song to the hero of City’s first in the locker room: “Rodri is on fire”
With the adrenaline triggered by being European champion, Rodri is looking for the perfect ending to a season that has turned out well for him. The finishing touch would come with the victory in the Nations League, which would be for him the first title with the senior team in a service sheet in which he already has nine with his clubs (eight with City and the European Super Cup with Atlético de Madrid) and the European sub 19.
Awarded as the best player of the season in the Champions League, the Final Four It will be the first final phase in which Rodri will be important in his natural position. In Qatar he was the best player in Spain, but he had to do it as a center back because that was the solution that Luis Enrique found to the fragility in the rear axis.
Not now. De la Fuente wants Rodri to be the axis of the selection in the center of the field, to exploit the natural virtues of a player to the player who guardiola grabbed by the chest at halftime istanbul to remind him of his leadership qualities.
That is what Spain expects of him. not whatever BusquetsLet it be Rodri. The one who wins Champions.
Spain needs Asensio’s goals
Marco Asensio is back in the selection. After what lived before norway and scotlandLuis de la Fuente decided to turn the squad upside down, counting, among others, on the man who has been a Real Madrid striker for the last seven seasons after his absence at the debut of the new coach.
Goal by Asensio (2-0) in Spain 7-0 Costa Rica
The call has come hand in hand with a complete change in the Mallorcan footballer’s scenario. leave behind the real Madrid, the team in which he completed his development as a footballer and as a person and with which he has won all possible titles. The conquests have not been enough to continue dressed in white. He wanted something else. Importance and ownership in the decisive matches, what he is going to look for in the psg and in this window of matches with the national team, with a title at stake such as the League of Nations. Spain played and lost the final of the last edition against France.
The Parisian challenge will come once Asensio shows Luis de la Fuente that those calls he made before the first call-up, to show confidence in the striker, had their reason for being. It should not be forgotten that both already coincided in the under 19 and under 21 teams. They know each other perfectly. After the initial opportunity for others, the coach has once again looked at classics like Jordi Alba or Asensio.
The one to be a player of psg As of July 1, he knows that the selection ladder has not risen completely and that now is a good time to take the step and assume the role of starter, the one he has had with Luis Enrique in the two stages of the former coach. Spanish and that he wants to recover with De la Fuente.
UEFA Nations League: Summary and goals of Spain 6-0 Croatia
two world cups
His history with the Spain jersey includes presence in two World Cups and reaches 35 games with just two goals. They premiere in May 2016 with Vicente del Bosque As a coach and except for the period in which the injury kept him off the pitch and the time spent recovering his best sensations, the striker has always been on the minds of those responsible for the Spanish bench.
The commitment acquired with the psg It will not act as a brake, much less in these two games. On the contrary. The striker wants to start demonstrating the correctness of the Parisian team’s decision and what better way than with a good game with the national team and with the possibility of lifting a title for Spain, something that has not happened since the 2012 Euro Cup with the victory against Italy in kyiv.
