The youth squad will look for his best version to help the team in the fight for LaLiga
Se has become Saul an easy target for criticism. A footballer who stands in front of a microphone after a match in which he has eliminated his team from the Copa del Rey a Second B and recognize that it is not right, is cannon fodder. The Elche midfielder was not afraid to recognize it. That makes you braver. That it is not being his best season is evident. You just have to see that for the first time since he joined the first team, he has definitely lost his untouchable status. Despite this, Saul He does not give up and wants to contribute his grain of sand to the conquest of the league title.
In a Athletic increasingly denatured in terms of players with an Atletico past. Just Koke and he remain as homegrown players in the first team. The presence of a footballer like Saúl seems essential for the final sprint. Their numbers are far from those of previous seasons, but something is clear by reviewing their statistics. With Saúl on the field, Atlético loses few games. Without going too far, the last Atletico defeat in the League, against I raised, It was without the squad in the call. It seems that the left-hander is the main culprit of all the mattress ills and in the two games they have lost in the domestic competition, in one he was a substitute and his minutes on the field coincided with the best of his team (the Valdebebas derby) and in the aforementioned duel of the Levant he did not dress. Atlético would do well to recover the best version of a footballer who seems essential to recover defensive solidity.
When you enter the loop of always pointing to the same person in charge it is difficult to find any clearing in the forest. In the case of Saúl, it is forgotten that he started some of the best rojiblancos games this season. The famous premiere against Granada, the victory against Cádiz in the Metropolitano, the duel against Barcelona, in Granada with the team full of casualties or against Villarreal in La Cerámica to give a few examples. Saúl is the first to know that he needs to give more. He needs it and Simeone needs it, who despite the moment of the youth squad has not lost an iota of confidence.
Ten days left to remove the thorn from one of his worst seasons and I’m sure that if he does it with a title they will taste much better. It has been speculated with his possible exit at the end of the course, for the moment, in his head he only happens to help his Athletic to be champion. There will be time when the season ends to analyze. Sure, if the best version of the squad appears, the rumors will end. Saúl is part of the identity of this Atlético. It is up to him to take the step to be decisive again.
