Arnaut Danjuma trending after star role in Champions League: ‘Unplayable’ | Football

sport">The Dutch attacker only played one season with the Belgians. In 25 appearances, he scored six goals and four assists, including a great goal in the Champions League against Atletico Madrid. But an ankle injury threw a spanner in the works and Club quickly sold Danjuma to Bournemouth for 16.5 million euros. This season, the 24-year-old winger is with Villarreal, which paid 23.5 million euros for Danjuma last summer.

sport">In Spain, the Dutchman is doing well. In La Liga, Danjuma has already scored twice for The Yellow Submarine, including against champions Atletico. And in the Champions League he has a goal and an assist. He gave the latter against Manchester United on Wednesday, when he served Paco Alcacer for the opening goal in a match that Villarreal would eventually lose 2-1.

Liverpool

sport">However, it was not Cristiano Ronaldo – who ultimately scored the winning goal – who walked away with the Player of the Match award. Danjuma does. And they will have seen that at Liverpool as well. The Reds would be interested in Danjuma, for whomever there was a scout in the stands.

sport">In England, the performance of the former player of Jong PSV and NEC was therefore closely monitored. “Danjuma was fantastic at times,” said the analysts of BT Sports. “He just kept coming and was almost unstoppable. Every time he comes to the ball, he gives the idea that something is going to happen. One on one he is unplayable.”

Impressed

sport">The British newspaper The Mirror even devoted a full analysis to the Dutchman. “The Liverpool scout was probably impressed by what he saw. Danjuma was important in the way Villarreal pushed Man United away. Although he is hugely right-footed and therefore always cuts inward, he attacked an impotent Diogo Dalot from the inside and the outside. A tactic to confuse the Portuguese, which also worked.”

sport">Danjuma Groeneveld is not included in the pre-selection of the Orange squad, which will again play two World Cup qualifiers on 8 and 11 October. But if Louis van Gaal still conjures him up as a rabbit out of the top hat when the final selection is announced on Friday, that will not be too much of a surprise. The attacker made his debut in the autumn of 2018 under Ronald Koeman, but has remained stuck on the two international matches he played against Germany and Belgium. In the friendly meeting with the Red Devils (1-1), he took care of the Dutch goal.

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