04/07/2022 at 18:41
HONOR
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The Argentine soccer player Young Lo Celsochosen by the UEFA as the best of the match that his club won against the powerful Bayern de Munich this Wednesday (1-0) in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinalshas collected, with his performance against the German team, the witness of his compatriot Juan Román Riquelme.
He has done so not only by remembering the Riquelme’s global trajectory at Villarrealbut in a particular way in reference to the match of the same competition and played in the same stadium that completed its predecessor against Inter Milan in the 2005-2006 campaignsixteen seasons ago.
Lo Celso’s performance has become the umpteenth sample of the great harmony that exists between Villarreal and Argentine football in general, and that has been evident in the passage through the Castellón club, in addition to the case of Riquelme, of footballers of the stature of Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Sebastián Batagglia or Juan Pablo Sorínamong many others.
Against Bayern, Lo Celso, who despite being left-footed started down the right flank for almost the entire match, he played a spectacular game and became the axis of attacking football of your team, with details of participate in the generation of the only goal of the shock.
Just as Román did more than fifteen years ago, the goal against the Bavarian team it came in one of his moves in which he put together an attack that was resolved by Arnaut Danjuma eight minutes into the game, after disarming the defense of the German team.
In addition, Lo Celso repeated Riquelme’s trend of fall to the band and from there give way to your team. In the match against Bayern insisted on initiatives such as the goal in two subsequent actions in which so much Danjuma What Alfonso Pedraza were in a frank position to have beaten the goal of Manuel Nneuer.
The footballer from Rosario, who this Saturday turns 26stood out for his defensive work and his high competitive level as the driving force behind the team and contributed to the fact that the Villarreal fans, reigning European champion League and representative of a city of little more than 50,000 inhabitantsenjoy a football party with few precedents.
In this meeting, he was accompanied by two other compatriots who performed at a good level: Gero Rulliwho barely had to intervene in the crash, and John Foythcentral converted into a right back, who also completed an excellent game.
Lo Celso joined the Villarreal discipline in the last winter marketlast January 31, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur English, in what is his second stage in Spanish football after having played for Betis during the 2018-2019 campaign. formed in the Central Rosarypassed in 2016 to Paris Saint Germainbefore going to play in Seville with Betis and completing his career at London Tottenham.
Since his arrival at Villarreal He has regularly entered into his coach’s plansUnai Emery, and ahead remains to be seen what will be your futuresince the transfer ends at end of the current campaign.
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