Many come to Fede Valverde as the next great leader of the Madrid locker room. He has played 245 games at only 25 years old, but all the coaches agree that his football has not reached its ceiling. In every game he shows something new, different, just like he did against Osasuna with three assists.
Fede Valverde is the perfect machine. He has only missed one game so far this season. and it had no official character. It was Euskadi-Uruguay last week. Bielsa He saw fit to rest the Real Madrid midfielder, who has played a total of 43 games in white Madrid and another seven with the Uruguayan team so far this season.
Carlo Ancelotti has left plenty of signs of trusting Valverde. He always pulls and the best demonstration is that he has come to play in four different positions: midfielder, winger, pure winger and inside, although perhaps it is the first of the positions where he is most comfortable. His contribution does not enter into any debate. It is true that in this season he does not have the point of looking so sharp, but his numbers are well above average. “In the same game he can play in different ways,” Ancelotti commented recently.
In decisive areas
The coach wants him to appear more in the decisive zone, but the Uruguayan’s main argument during this exercise is that of balance that gives to the eleven of Real Madrid. Analyzing the data on Valverde as a midfielder with the rest of the players who play in that position, we see that the Madrid player stands out in terms of assists with seven, which places him among the eight best midfielders in the European Leagues. In Spain he is the third after Alex Baena and Lewandowski.
His average number of recoveries goes up to 7.2 per game if recoveries, tackles won and intercepted passes are added. In LaLiga only Cardona surpasses him. Maksimovic and Espino. He has won 90 of the 148 duels attempted throughout the championship. We continue with the precision of its 1,730 executed passes of the 1,580 have reached the correct destination, that is, above 91 percent. And all this with only two yellow cards.
In another section in which Valverde stands out is in bringing out his power, that steady gallop with which he leaves his rivals behind. It is the fifth of the main European Leagues about breaking lines with power and meaning.
The midfielder continues to accumulate games and honors within the group, which already sees him as a reference for his power, his football and that intangible that is character. He doesn’t hold anything back and those around him know it. For some reason Ancelotti is the player he trusts the most, as demonstrated by the Uruguayan’s 3,283 minutes on green, the most.