When the Atletico Madrid stars ran out onto the pitch at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi for the last La Liga match of the year to wild cheers from visiting fans, it was without Alexander Sørloth. – The Norwegian goal machine had to take an abrupt turn to the left and sit in the stands and wait for an hour and two minutes to play.
Atletico Madrid’s top goalscorer is clearly not the club’s biggest star. Julián Álvarez and Antoine Griezmann have that honour. Transfermarkt apparently also agrees, while Julián Álvarez is worth a whopping €90 million (and on his way back to the Premier League) they have put the value of Alexander Sorloth at a measly €25 million.
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At the top of La Liga’s top scorers list is French superstar Kylian Mbappe with 31 goals and in second place is perpetual machine Robert Lewandoswki with 27 goals.
Genius in his own eyes
It is something completely different from Alexander Sørloth, who completely incomprehensibly usually starts on the bench. – The Norwegian striker is in an impossible situation at Atlético Madrid where manager Diego Simeone is convinced that all the goals come because the Norwegian goal machine starts on the bench.
The world’s highest paid manager thinks he is “brilliant” who has realized that the goals come after tormenting Alexander Sørloth for an hour on the bench first!.
With an annual salary of 30 million euros, you should be able to expect more than 3rd places.
Alexander Sørloth scored another hat-trick for Atlético Madrid, while manager Diego Simeone claims he is happy not to have made the Norwegian a regular first-team player. He clearly doesn’t realize he has one of the world’s very best strikers.
Although Alexander Sørloth says he wants to make it big with Atlético Madrid and has no plans to move on, but if it is a big club that sees it as an advantage to have a 2 meter tall and top-trained striker scare most defenders centrally in his scheme, we think the 29-year-old from Trondheim can jump.
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With his 20 goals in La Liga this season, he is in 4th place on the top scorers list, but more importantly and the somewhat special point of Diego Simeone, no one scores more often in relation to playing time.
After today’s hat-trick in the 0 – 4 win at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi over Girona, Atlético Madrid posted a very entertaining Instragram post.
Goal hunting continues
Sørloth has been a goal machine for Atlético Madrid this season. On Sunday, he finished with his second hat trick in a few weeks when the team faced Girona. But despite the impressive goal joy, he has more often had to settle for a place on the bench than in the starting line-up.
Simeone defends his
choices Diego Simeone sees no problem in Sørloth having been given a more modest role in the shadow of Julián Álvarez and Antoine Griezmann:
- “Who knows? Maybe he would have scored fewer goals if he had been given more playing time.”
- “The fact is that he has scored 20 goals in the playing time he has been given. You can’t say we’ve handled the situation badly,” Simeone told Marca.
More opportunities await
Sørloth can look forward to increased playing time as early as next month when Atlético Madrid participates in the Club World Cup.
Although Sørloth impresses time and time again, Simeone shows that he prefers to use the Norwegian as an effective super sub.
With 20 goals in limited playing time, it is difficult to blame the experienced coach for his approach, but we choose to do it anyway. We know best!! – Release Alexander Sørloth or lose him to someone who is “less brilliant”
