[Sport] Bellingham: less goal and same brilliance

[Blexfraptor]

The Brit has not scored in four games, but remains fundamental in Madrid's game and participated in two goals in the Clásico.
He has not scored since December 17 against Villarreal. Four games without seeing a goal. But there's no need for him to do it. Jude Bellingham has been playing a more silent role in the Real Madrid team in recent games, but that does not make him any less threatening for rivals. The crudest statistic, which is the goal, shows that the Briton is going through a small slump. A misleading conclusion. The Super Cup final shows a Bellingham without the effectiveness of other moments of the season, but just as influential in the game of Ancelotti's team.
The presence of Mendy and Tchouameni in the eleven, the two life insurances for Ancelotti, returned him to a more focused, advanced position with a little more freedom. And the game became unbalanced in Jude's boots. From them came the 1-0. He attracted Christensen to break the Barça defense, made a change of foot worthy of the best Zidane and threaded a pass where there was no room for the most lethal Vinicius to finish.
The Englishman was, in fact, the second Madrid player who attempted the most shots in the Riyadh Classic, with four shots, compared to the six attempts that Vinicius needed for his hat-trick. In a match in which Barça took control of the ball (it was, by far, the match with the least possession for Madrid this season, with 42.7%), Jude was seen. With 62 interventions, he was the most active player in the white attack and delivered 41 passes (with a success rate of 93.2%), of which 13 were in the most dangerous zone, the last third of the rival field. Only Tchouameni and Mendy directed more balls into that hot zone. Furthermore, according to Opta data, he dared to take two dribbles and was used in defense with four recoveries.
Leaving aside the omnipresent Vinicius, who touched the ball 15 times in the Barça area, Bellingham was the one who stepped the most in the vicinity of Iñaki Peña's goal, with six plays. And the culmination that he gave to the Classic escapes statistics. In the final 4-1, his presence led to Koundé's error, who stopped halfway when it came to intercepting Vinicius' assist to the British player and left the ball dead for Rodrygo to finish the job.

Bellingham: menos gol y mismo brillo - AS.com