He is talked about almost daily. Ok, it won’t be with the same vehemence as they refer to Kane, Salah or De Bruyne, but it doesn’t go unnoticed when analyzing Premier League news. Congratulations are usually received, while in your country there are all questions and doubts. Need I say it in English for James Rodriguez’s huge influence on a team like Everton to be real?
Let’s review then, what the British press has said in recent hours, when Everton has before him a series of 8 games in which he can not fail if he wants to catch one of the tickets to the next Champions League.
Against Crystal Palace, the Liverpool Echo qualified him with 8 points and chose him figure of the match, despite the disappointing 1-1 because the reality is that there was no one better. “The Colombian international was one of the few players on the field on both sides who looked calm and serene. In some stages it was as if he had multiple angles of all in front of him right at his fingertips, controlling the ‘works like a puppeteer,’ the medium said at the time
“The hosts relied heavily on him to try to resolve emergencies or find ingenious football to try to break a determined defense of the Palace in their final third,” he added.
They adore him in this newspaper, that they are happy to have a player with a poster in a half-board club in England. Well, then we should review other adjectives, this time from the Mail Mail.
“It should be a relief for Everton fans to see James recover from an injury and score in Monday night’s draw with Crystal Palace. It’s very important in the team’s creative strength.” , he said.
He added: “Carlo Ancelotti’s team is in eighth place and will have to shorten a five-point gap with the top four in the remaining nine games, but his chances of doing so increase enormously with the Colombian midfielder in the ‘team’.
Praises that come and go and are not the only ones. Now coach Carlo Ancelotti, so criticized for replacing his key man and ending up conceding a draw, will have to decide whether to use him twice in seven days or whether to alternate him with Iwobi, who returned from injury. But judging by the opinion of the critics, he would be the least intelligent of the options.
The risk is to stay out of the Champions League, so it’s worth betting on the magic of the left if or if. Whatever it costs. More pages of praise could be written if next Monday he repeats against Brighton a performance like the one he already did. In any case, on this side of the world, it will be very difficult to recognize, no matter what you do …