The same is because he is not yet ready to be the five of Madrid, to act as a solo anchor without the company of the double pivot to which he was accustomed in Monaco and with France, or because Qatar has clouded his legsbut Aurélien Tchouameni has gone from an exciting signing to a questionable footballer as a sugar cube dissolves in a cafe. A coffee of a month and a half duration, but worth the analogy.
“Forcefulness”. Ancelotti repeated the word eight times during the press conference in Vallecas. It is something that, on the most purely physical level of the term, the international is missing blue. Carletto He says that the legs are heavy but although Tchouameni is the eighth in minutes (1,132 ‘) and has played more, for example, than Modric (1,095 ‘), to the French that supposed indigestion of matches cannot be considered a defense. Not much less. Counting his presence with the French team, the Madrid midfielder has played 1,312 minutes this season and last season, at this point, between Monaco and France he had played much more: 1,928 minutes. In other words: for Tchouameni the start of 2021-22 was much more exhausting than the current one. The Tchouameni of the Principality generated with his actions, according to Olocip, expert in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to football, 0.31 goals more than expected every 90 minutes. The Tchouameni of Madrid: 0.23. While, Casemiro, after his lukewarm start at United, has earned Ten Hag, praise from the islands and also from the AI: his impact is 0.34 per 90′ with the Red Devilsbetter than the best Aurélien…
The question, then, is why the Frenchman’s performance has fallen from a very high peak (1-4 in Balaídos, 1-3 in Cornellà and 1-2 in the Metropolitan Derby) to current performance. In Madrid, the word ‘World Cup’ is avoided as a reason for certain absences due to muscular issues, but the circumstance is that Tchouameni has chained that loss of presence in the white game with an overload that excluded him from two games, Girona and the inconsequential ride against Celtic. In Vallecas, without the sanctioned Kroos and due to Ancelotti’s lack of faith in Camavinga (against Girona he was the first substituted), Tchouameni was once again necessary. and did not answer. Ancelotti decided just after the 3-2 that he needed something else and sent him to the bench to introduce Camavinga in his place.
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One of the questions may be who accompanies Tchouameni. Ancelotti himself let him glimpse it quite directly today Wednesday in the previous one with Cádiz. “The Tchouameni with Kroos at his side and the Tchouameni without Kroos are not similar players…”asserted the transalpine technician.
Madrid trusts that Tchouameni comes back after Qatar because he is still a signing on the border of 100 million, something that carries a extra liability although the footballer has little or nothing to do with it. But there have been issues that give worrying readings for the white club, especially one, the little chemistry in the field with Camavinga, another of the names called to carry the handle of Madrid for the next five years. The club is patient because it believes that The two of them and Valverde are a trio of guarantees with which to lay the foundation for the team’s futurebut for that a Tchouameni is needed to adapt to the role of ‘five’ sooner rather than later…