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Premier league The Colombian is increasingly decisive at Everton
BRAND Claro Colombia
The numbers indicate that it was the game in which he had the least participation since he arrived in the Premier League. James Rodríguez showed yesterday that he is to be decisive in important matches and that is precisely what Carlo Ancelotti asks of him. He is Colombian and was decisive against Liverpool despite the small drop he had in his statistics of passes and touches to the ball.
Prior to his first Merseyside derby, James had made an average of 52 passes per game between hits and misses in his first four Premier matches. In front of the ‘reds’ he did not pass the 40, although the result was the same. The cucuteo was once again decisive for Everton to continue as leader in the best league in the world.
Of those 52 pass attempts per game, James averaged 45 effectively made. The match against Klopp’s team left a balance of 35, although it is clear that the Colombian is the one chosen by Carlo Ancelotti to define the matches.. And it is that although the cucuteo wants to always be around the ball and the gestation of attack plays, perhaps his assistance to Keane and the pass to Digne that ended in the second goal of the ‘Toffees’, shows that the Colombian should be in charge of giving the last ball to the attackers instead of being surrounded by rivals when the play just begins. The latter at least could be useful in the face of next matches vs the famous ‘Top Six’.
What if increased compared to the games against Tottenham, West-Brom, Crystal Palace and Brighton, was the number of fouls received by James. Klopp’s praise for the Colombian was demonstrated when his team constantly sought to cut the passing lines of the ‘coffee grower’. The ’19’ always found a rival who was pressing his exit and only in 60 minutes, received four fouls by the ‘reds’ in their own field, something that makes clear the desire to cut who is called to give the key passes at Everton. No one was fouled more in the Merseyside derby.
This pass has gone hugely under the radar by the way! On another level this boy and what a goal this would have been!
World class again my partner! @jamesdrodriguezpic.twitter.com/tcZWh7DRcB
? TheMightyBlues (@MightyBluesYT) October 17, 2020
35 passes made, two shots, four fouls received plus three made, a yellow card, an assist and the pass that ended the final tie for the ‘Toffees’. Those were the numbers of a James Rodríguez who understands that he is here to be decisive and that although the idea is that he is always around the ball, the reality is that Everton has entrusted him with that decisive role in the last meters.
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