Failed assignment? Nico González, with few options in Valencia

With the aim to accumulate more minutes on the field, the FC Barcelona agreed the cession of Nico González to Valencia in the past summer. However, an irregular beginning of the season 2022/23 in the team directed by Gennaro Gattuso has caused that the midfield player have lost regularity, what has carried to the míster to opt by other figures of his staff for the medullary.

Nico arrived to the team 'che' as it splits of the new sportive planning to charge of the Italian trainer, but his performance has not been the expected. In principle, the problems of Valencia seemed to be caused by the exit of Carlos Soler, today player of Paris Saint-Germain, and by the parties of suspension that dragged José Luis Gayà in the start of the season.

In the 5-1 in front of the Getafe, the Galician jumped to the field from the start and was one of the artífices of the goleada. Since, it has not gone back to have some brilliant performance. In the following date in front of the Ray Vallecano had a performance for the forget when failing in one of the clearest occasions of goal of the party and later load with the fault of a goal in own door.

The irregularity has carried him to be a fixed in the bench valencianista, a stage that possibly did not have foreseen to the moment to give the "ok" to the agreement to send him as yielded. Eventualmente, has seen some minutes of game, but without being headline in any of the last parties. In the previous day in front of Osasuna, gastroenteritis deprived him to be in the field.

The negative mark of Nico in Valencia

The Galician has turned into the midfield player of the staff 'che' with less shooting in what it goes of the season. In total, has contested 231 minutes, underneath of Ilaix Moriba (244), André Almeida (286), Yunus Musah (450) and the leader in this section, Hugo Guillamón. It is so critical the situation of Nico, that even great less minutes that Carlos Soler (243), the one who no longer is in Valencia.