I don’t know if you’ve seen the film Seven. Maybe you’re more into The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Well, with the latest news about Isco, it has come to my mind, because it doesn’t matter if at one point everything is going well, there are films that end with a sad ending when the opposite was the case.
Isco’s story is, along with Girona‘s, the best of the season in Spain and probably in Europe. Isco was the positive note, the recovery of one of the greatest Spanish talents in recent decades.
Francisco Alarcón had returned to smiling after years in which we no longer counted on him as a footballer after a bad exit from Real Madrid, a complex passage through Sevilla FC and the fall of a possible move to Union Berlin. Pellegrini had bet on him, Betis welcomed the player from Málaga as if it was his home and the player wasn’t going to let them down.
Leaving aside the countless MVPs of the playmaker’s game, as it is something subjective and voted by the public, Isco started LaLiga as the best player in the competition and, although his level had dropped a little, he was still among the top attacking players.
You might even regret it when you look at his tally of seven goals and five assists this season. Why? Because the numbers fell short, we saw the good Isco again after many years.
A bossy playmaker who dominated all passing records, being in the top 1% of attacking midfielders in terms of progressive passes, also superior to other playmakers, making more than three key passes per game (passes that lead directly to a shot) and one of the best players in driving (more than 300 metres driven per game).
But as always in life, not everything can be rosy. After the last match against Getafe, it became known that the magician from Arroyo de la Miel suffered an injury that could keep him sidelined for several months.
The European Championship already seemed complicated, but now it seems impossible. Let’s hope it all moves away from those sad endings like Seven or The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and looks more like a typical Anyone But You style romantic comedy, in which both Isco and Betis end up happy to be with each other for many years to come.
Translated by Marcos Rodríguez.
Main image: @RealBetis.
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