The situation
In the end he got away with it: Marco Asensio (26 years old) will be present at the World Cup in Qatar. Luis Enrique Martínez, the national coach, included him in the list of 26 players who will represent Spain in the first World Cup to be held in the middle of the season. Marco Asensio who has sprinted in this last stretch before the World Cup competition , bringing out the best that he has inside and above all, a lot of involvement to get a place in the eleven of Madrid and thus go to the Arab event. Asensio has been paddling upriver since the beginning of the season . In the absence of a campaign for his current contract with Madrid to expire, the player did not know if he would accept any of the offers that he had on the table. He even changed his agent last April with the intention of opening himself up to listening to those siren songs. What’s more, at the beginning of the season, Ancelotti left him out because he saw him more outside than inside the white squad. The Italian coach, however, spoke with him and challenged him to turn his situation around . He encouraged him by explaining that he would be important throughout the campaign. The same message was transmitted to Eden Hazard. One accepted the challenge. There is no news of the other, not even going out to warm up… And in those Asensio got down to work. His last appearances add up to three goals (two in the Champions League), two assists (a formidable one for Vinicius to finish off a splendid center of his in Leipzig) and participating in important plays, such as the filtered pass to Vinicius, so that he yielded to Lucas Vázquez and unbalanced a tough clash against Sevilla.
The details
Against Rayo he showed his good level participating in the two white goals: he was the subject of a Fran García penalty that Modric converted and assisted Militao from a corner kick (he scores or assists every 67 minutes) Against Cádiz he did not play as he was slightly touched, as Ancelotti explained in a press conference, but in just three months he has turned his situation around, to such an extent that Madrid, who did not see any remarkable fact for his continuity (he came to value him at 50 million euros for a possible sale), look for its renewal while the World Cup is played.