The story of Aymeric Laporte with the selection is that of a constant demand. It happened to him in the Euro Cup and many doubted him before starting the World Cupbut three games in the group stage were enough for Ayme to confirm that his level with Spain is always optimal. “When they speak badly about you, it mainly affects the environment: family, children, parents… They are more aware of what is happening around them and it can affect them more. They ask you questions and you have to answer. I understand that there are different opinions, but I don’t think I have given too many reasons to doubt. I think I have given my best, I have nothing to reproach myselfbecause I’m giving my all and I’m not doing anything wrong,” he said in an interview with MARCA during the penultimate list before the World Cup.
Aymeric Laporte: “I have given no reason to doubt myself”
Next to Cubarsi, Laporte forms one of the fashion couples of the World Cup. Is hedefense chief and acts as such. It has slipped into the ideal eleven of the group stage on several important football statistics websites along with players like Hakimi, Van Dijk and Nuno Mendes. That is, the best in their position. Although it seems that for the general public he does not fit into that select group, he does also fit into the BRAND Power Rankingwhere Laporte could not be missing among the best of the first phase.
The ideal eleven of the first phase, according to MARCA’s Power Ranking.
In the first three games of the World Cup, Laporte accumulates 23 defensive contributions. Furthermore, his power above It is capital for the selection. Against Uruguay won all five aerial duels that he played and has only been dribbled once in the entire tournament.
A guarantee with a balloon
Laporte’s importance is also capital offensively. He has the quality to get the ball under control and does not shy away from asking for it to come out from behind.. Against Uruguay he had a 92% of success in the pass, against Arabia a 95% and off Cape Verde a 96%. That is, he has completed 281 of 297 passes (almost 95%), including 69 successful deliveries in the last third of the field.
Laporte on his relationship with Lamine and the young people: “We play Fortnite together”
A coach soldier
He May 12, 2021the BOE published that Laporte was Spanish for all purposes and since then it has been indisputable. Luis de la Fuente has been touching the other piece of the puzzle, but always with Ayme on the team. Le Normand, Huijsen, Nacho or Cubarsi They have accompanied him over the years and Ayme has known how to adapt to everyone for the good of the team. “He is one of the centers that best develops the idea we have. It’s a luxury. He offers us great ball output, he filters passes, he has hierarchy… He is very complete,” says the coach.
With it you follow a very specific plan so that you are physically at your best. The center assures that it is fine, but the charges are measured to the millimeter. On Saturday, After the game against Uruguay, he was the only one not injured who did not train. He worked on the sidelines to continue regulating efforts and maintaining his physical reliability on the pitch.
A veteran among the kids
To his 32 yearsLaporte is a veteran on De la Fuente’s list, but he takes care of and is close to the younger ones. He has a great relationship with Laminewho does not forgive a training session without making a joke, and gets along very well with Gaviof whom he was very attentive during his long recovery process after the injury: “I have a special connection with him since he arrived here. I welcomed him very well. He is an incredible kid both on the field and off”he assures.
