Except for a negative surprise, a calm market end is coming for the Real societywhich with the incorporation of Kieran Tierney He already has his profile very squad 2023-24. The arrival of the Scottish defender adds to those of Hamari Traoré, André Silva and Arsen Zakharyan, leaving everything at the expense of two circumstances: a hypothetical offensive by another club by some txuri-urdin prop and possible last-minute movements on the right side. Beyond what has been explained and the presumable departures of Diego Rico and Jon Karrikaburu, the photograph of the list of troops that Imanol will have this season is quite clear, in terms of proper names and also in terms of baggage of Champions League. The club has recorded experience worth 57 games, 4,638 minutes and eleven goals in the top continental competition, figures that are undoubtedly important.
Thanks to them, the Real palia, only in part, all the European deposit that the retired David Silva contributed. During his long career, he accumulated 70 games, 5,095 minutes and ten goals in the tournament that the txuri-urdin will play from September, alone surpassing almost all the global numbers of the present squad. In the comparison, he only loses out compared to the aforementioned eleven goals that this squad already has, all by the Portuguese André Silva. From there, and also assuming everything that the blue and white team loses without Arguineguín’s, it should be stressed that the entity has known how to move well to bring a certain international presence, facing the nights of Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In last year’s squad, they knew the Champions Illarramendi, Sorloth, Silva and Carlos Fernández. Without mutrikuarra, norwegian and canary, there were only left on the payroll the meager seven minutes of the Andalusian in 2020during a Rennes-Sevilla that precisely measured Hamari Traoré.
Since the club was already aware of the battered state of Silva’s knee, it was urgent from the outset to incorporate knowledge of what the Champions League is, something that has been happening progressively during the summer. In June, just after the end of the last League, the Malian winger arrived, with six Champions League games behind him. They all correspond to the 2020-21 campaign, that of the games behind closed doors due to the covid, in which the league paired his Rennes with Sevilla himself, Chelsea and Krasnodar. Traoré signed a full of minutes, 540, but his team did not do well at allharvesting only one point out of a possible 18 (1-1 at home against the Russians).
Later, well into the summer, he landed in Donostia andre silvawho He has lived the Champions League wearing the Porto and RB Leipzig shirts (with Seville, Milan and Eintracht Frankfurt he only played the Europa League). The Portuguese forward has always maintained a very good relationship with the first European tournament, in which he has accumulated three participations. He scored five goals in ten games for Porto himself in the 2016-17 campaign, playing in the round of 16 against Juventus. In 2021-22, meanwhile, he scored three goals for RB Leipzig in a group of death shared with Manchester City, PSG and Bruges, the Germans (third place) being relegated to a Europa League in which they would face Real . And, in this last course, the Portuguese repeated his goalscoring record (three goals) with the Red Bull team, beating a group also made up of Real Madrid, Shakhtar and Celtic and then being knocked out in the round of 16 by the eventual champion, Guardiola City.
Of the total 24 Champions League games that André Silva has played, two correspond to previous rounds, a distinction that is especially important in the case of Kieran Tierney. The Scottish international arrives at Real with a baggage of 27 participations in matches corresponding to the maximum European tournament, but 66% of them, 18, correspond to summer playoffs prior to the group stage. The left-back chained three double-game confrontations in the summers of 2016, 2017 and 2018, always with Celtic Glasgow, and managed to reach the league in two of those three attempts (in the first two). In 2018, meanwhile, he finally had to settle for the Europa League, losing in the decisive round against AEK Athens. Thus, he played the group stage of the Champions League in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 campaigns, accumulating nine games there and also experiencing a difficult debut in the first of these, a 7-0 win at the Camp Nou defending a Messi who signed a hat-trick.
There is a fifth footballer in the squad who knows the glamor of the Champions League very well, even though he does not add any minutes on the field in tournament matches. Is about Mikel Merino, whose story in the 2016-17 season, when he played for Borussia Dortmund, is curious. To begin with, as soon as he arrived at the German club from Osasuna, he received the setback of being left out of the team’s European list, being able to only play in the league and cup. Later, after the winter break, he was registered for the continental qualifiers, entering Tuchel’s squad for three games: the second leg of the round of 16 (against Benfica) and the first leg of the quarterfinals (against Benfica). to Monaco).
The Navarrese did not play any minute, although he has subsequently indicated that he was about to make his debut in one of those contests. Tuchel himself came to call him on the bench after warming up, to give him entry, but he ended up regretting it, paralyzed the change and left a Merino unprecedented that, six and a half years later, aims to debut finally with the Real Sociedad shirt.
2023-08-28 04:45:31
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