Llorente is taking the air to the season. Hope it’s not too late. He has played five of the last six games and the only one he has missed has been through suspension. In addition, he scored his first goal on March 20 a year later, against Ponferradina (he had not done so since March 6, 2021 in a Udinese-Sassuolo) and finally it has been released at home, on Friday against Las Palmas. The good news continues to chain, since he acted the 90 minutes of the game, he only missed the discount, when he gave way to Leschuk. He hadn’t tasted that feeling since Naples-Perugia, on January 14, 2020.
“We have to keep working hard, there are six games left and the goal is close,” says the striker from Rincón de Soto. “I am very happy to have finally found the form, it has cost me a lot, I came from being unemployed for a long time and it has not been easy, but I have achieved it based on effort and never losing the desire to work and continue giving the best of myself to be there when the team needs it. It is a satisfaction to be in the green”.
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The world champion remarks that the director’s debut in Ipurua was “very special”, especially “for helping the team to add this point and hopefully he can do it many more times”. “There are few games left, this final comes at a good time for me and I will do my best, hopefully we achieve the goal”. The goal against the canaries was a house brand, with a header, making a complicated foreshortening. “It wasn’t easy because the center was going at a lot of speed and the center took effect, I had to lengthen my neck and throw my head back”.
Garitano is delighted with his contest. His experience seems essential for this decisive stage. The easiest thing seems to be to send balls into the area and for Llorente to try to finish them off from above. “It is important for the team, it helps us to continue believing. Physically he is at his best, he is a great reference, always encouraging and working”, emphasizes the gunsmith, who confesses that “it is a pride to train him and have him like this, we see him as the auctioneer he has always been”.