The season that is about to end has not been easy for Jude Bellingham. He began it while still recovering from the shoulder operation to which he was subjected after the Club World Cup and, when it began to rear its head, a lash in the thigh left him dry 10 minutes into a League match against Rayo. Some spectators present at the Bernabéu whistled at the injured footballergiving continuity to the whistles he heard a couple of weeks before (mid-January, after the defeat in the Super Cup final and the dismissal of Xabi Alonso) on the day of the visit Levant to a nail-biting Bernabéu with his team, especially with Vini, Fede and Englishs, who were blamed for the technician’s dismissal.
The injury, a tear in the semitendinosus muscle of the left legit was no small thing. Jude was out for a month and a half, a total of 9 games, and could not help a team in which the figure of Arda Güler. The loss of the Englishman gave rise to the Turk, who was the team’s best player in a particularly critical stretch of the season, with Madrid risking their lives in the League and the Champions League.
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Bellingham reappeared in the derby of the Bernabéu (March 22), but since then He has only completed 90 minutes on three occasions. The last one, this past Sunday in Cornelláwhere he was one of the most notable in Madrid’s victory (0-2) that delayed the culé alirón for at least a week.
The prize is smaller, if not directly non-existent, for Madrid, but Jude’s game in Barcelona was good news. Not in the key of the present, but of the future. Because the reality is that English is still looking for its best version, the one that allowed him to impress in the 23-24 seasonin which he was, along with Vinicius, the great star of a team that won League and European Cup. That splendid version of the white 5, 23 goals and 13 assistshas not appeared again. In his best moment came that injury to his left shoulder that left him limping for many months, more than recommended for a player who was once again a leader with England in the Euro, where they only lost in the final against Spain.
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Bellingham and Madrid’s medical services opted to a conservative treatment that finally had to be abandoned to attack the root of the problem. The footballer, weakened by the injury and imprisoned by a scandalous ‘armor’, also suffered another important muscle injury in the 24-25 season, despite which his figures were once again notable: 15 goals and 15 assists. Number of those who are far away in this course (six and five), despite ending with good feelings.
Against Espanyol he signed a 94% pass success (100% on long passes), three dribbles out of six attempted, four fouls received, seven recoveries and nine out of 12 duels won. Numbers that were missing the icing on the goal (He had a great opportunity in a counterattack already with 0-2) but, above all, they project the hope of Real Madrid fans for the future. Recovering the best version of Bellingham, that of the total footballer from two seasons ago, would be one of the best possible news for a fan that is in great need of joy.
