A MONTH ' CORNERED ' IN OSTRACISM
Braithwaite is still without minutes and Xavi begins to mark his 'epitaph' at Barça
Published:19/02/2022 - 12:52h
Updated:19/02/2022 - 12:52h
After his knee injury, Martin Braithwaite has not been able to gain the trust of the coach. Now, it seems that his situation condemns him to an eternal stay on the bench
Martin Braithwaite was protagonist in the first parties of the season when Ronald Koeman still did life inside the Barcelona bench. It marked a doublet in front of the Real Sociedad and painted well after having been in the Euro with his selection. However, the Danish suffered a grave injury of knee that forced it to go through the operating theatre and say him 'goodbye' to all the 2021.
Already in the second half of season, Xavi Hernández found to charge of the team, and without mattering that Braithwaite was totally recovered, decided to incorporate new pieces in the offensive diagram. His confidence in the Nordic is invalid and has remained showed from his return, in where only it has contested 13' minutes in Glass of the King in front of the Athletic Bilbao.
The arrival of Ferran Torres already complicated his situation, because it can exert of '9' and of extreme. In spite of the injury of Memphis Depay, the landing of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang left even clearer that the opportunities every time would reduce more. Nevertheless, the explosion of Luuk of Jong is what has finished of sepultar the aspirations of the dorsal '12'. The Dutch has been determinant in his last presentations, and without mattering the minutes that contest, has generated a lot of occasions of danger, winning the support of the fans and of the technician egarense.
Now, the bench has turned into the 'better fellow' of the international with Denmark, the one who beside Riqui Puig and Net Walled, are those that lower quantity of minutes accumulate from the arrival of Xavi to the institution. By the moment, the best alternative is a cession to half of year, since his agreement expires in 2024 and, by the 'winds that blow', the situation does not have plans to change.
'Overload' of tools
The offensive of the Barça is loaded of talent. Leaving to a side to the lesionados Ansu Fati and Depay, the presence of Ferran, Aubameyang, Of Jong and included Ferran Jutglà, do that the opportunities like leading centre have practically disappeared for Braithwaite, the one who will have to remain, once again, in the bank of acting this Sunday in Mestalla.
