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He has not started this season yet, he never completed more than half an hour, but until the end of the year there are still five more games where the 20 can show service, that is, the cups, from Portugal and the League.
Gonzalo Plata has December to show Rúben Amorim that he deserves a place in the Sporting squad, after three months without much projection, in training, but also in games, accumulating the misfortune of having recently been infected with covid-19, in Selection of Ecuador, although it was not taken care of completely after the first cases in the “Tri”.
On Wednesday, the winger took the first step in this new chapter, integrating the work sessions of the main team for the first time since he contracted the coronavirus (he tested negative on Tuesday) and appearing on the grass of the professional wing with a smile on his face . and with the commitment to change a start to the season below expectations, personal and club.
It is true that the competition ahead is fierce, especially if we take into account the moments of form of the reinforcements Pote and Nuno Santos, but it is also that they all started at the same level, since the coach of the lions does not look at names -or ages – when choosing your options.
Arrived in December, Plata participated in less than half of the official matches that the Greens and Whites held in 2020/21 (five in 11), he was never a starter and the maximum he played was about 30 minutes in the classic against FC Porto , in Alvalade, in round 4 of the championship, held on October 17.
The context, O GOGO found, leaves the young footballer, only 20 years old and in need of regular action, closer to a possible compromise in the January market, but at the same time the left-hander who acts on the right feels that he can grow up with Rúben Amorim, promising him the full commitment to enter the five games that Sporting will play before entering 2021, three for the championship and two more in the two internal cups.
And everything changed in the Algarve …
Last season, but under the command of other coaches (Marcel Keizer, Leonel Pontes and, in the end, Silas), Plata went through the same situation: little was used in the first part of the season and in December, when everything seemed to point to A commitment. , arrived in Portimão, in a decisive match in the League Cup, and scored the 3-2 that made the Lions turn around (the final 4-2 for Sporting … at 0-2).
The first goal of that season ended, then, as it was decisive not only for the team’s classification towards the four finalists of the League Cup, but also for the permanence of the Ecuadorian, who from then on began to appear more regularly. . Now, there are new occasions, in the championship, yes, but also … in the League Cup, where the lion will fight with Mafra (matchday 15). Paços plays in Alvalade in the queen competition four days before.
Remaining redemption is not a priority for SAD
Hired by the Ecuadorians of Independiente del Valle in January 2019, Plata cost, outside of commissions, 1,075 million euros to the coffers of the SAD, which at the time only got half of the end pass. Today, the priorities are different and even with the rest in sight, society will not advance immediately.
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