There is little chance that Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone will listen to what we in Sporten.com have to say, but I am thinking of getting this article translated by a friend who knows Spanish and faxing it to the Wanda Metropolitano.
Again, the eternal third landed in 3rd place in La Liga, I am completely convinced that if Diego Simeone had used Alexander Sørloth from the start and built an attack around the Norwegian 195 cm tall striker, they would surely have collected points at a higher pace.
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Alexander Sørloth is in 4th place on La Liga’s top scorers list. There are only 78 minutes between each goal, while top scorer Kylian Mbape spends a full 94 minutes.
Alexander Sørloth finished the La Liga season with four goals against Real Sociedad and a hat-trick against Girona. Thus, the super reserve ended with 20 league goals, the fourth highest scorer in Spain.
National team manager Ståle Solbakken wants Alexander Sørloth to steer clear of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s “supersub” label, the Norwegian national team needs a top-class striker who has full games in his legs. Now there are signals that Sørloth will have to look far for such a role at Atletico Madrid.
Even after the Norwegian’s scoring spree, Atletico manager Diego Simeone has stated that he is very happy with the role Sørloth plays in the Atletico team, an important attacking weapon for the club in the final stages of the games. With Antonine Griezmann on his way away, some thought Sørloth would move up the playing time queue. This week there are reports of the opposite.
Atlético Madrid are preparing for a summer of ambitious transfers, and Lautaro Martínez is once again at the centre of the red and white agenda. The Argentine striker, captain and top scorer of Inter Milan, has been a priority for Diego Simeone for years and, according to El Chiringuito, Atletico’s sporting director has already initiated the first contacts to pursue a signing that would revolutionize the Metropolitano’s attacking line.
The collaboration between Lautaro and Julián has worked perfectly for the Argentine national team, where the two have alternated starting roles and complemented each other with mobility, pressure and scoring. The club’s vision is for Lautaro to be Julián’s ideal partner, with the two swapping positions and posing a constant threat to the opponent’s defence.
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For Alexander Sørloth, this could mean another season that relegates him to the super reserve role Ståle Solbakken warns against.
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