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 17 goals in La Liga this season, he finds himself in 6th 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.
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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!!
