Gonzalo Montielsuperhero job. Call him Mr. Wolf if you like, like the character played by Harvey Keitel in ‘Pulp Fiction’ and called in to solve problems. Who would tell him? Who was going to tell him that he would finish this season as world champion with Argentina and Europa League champion with Sevilla? Thus, without further nuances, it already amazes.
But even in his wildest dreams, he could not have imagined that, in addition to titles, there would be so many lead roles in both successes. Less than six months ago, in Qatar, after riding Leo Messi for a month, scored the decisive penalty Giving Argentina the long-awaited third World Cup.
The referee ordered a replay.
What were the chances of this happening again? And in the same season! In Budapest, however, Montiel covered the nearly 40 meters separating the midfield from the penalty spot, with the opportunity to repeat their heroism. referee blows his whistle Gonzalo runs, hits the ball… and Rui Patricio stops him.
It was too round to be true anyway. Again? Well no… but yes. Because VAR, the evil little machine that canceled an Ocampos penalty (well) a while ago, caught Rui Patricio taking the lead on the shot. Fate, how generous, gave Montiel a new opportunity. And then yes, the hoop was closed, Montiel scored and Sevilla won their seventh Europa League.
“I felt sorry for making a mistake. But when I saw the goalkeeper take the lead, I saw that I had another ‘chance’. And there I didn’t waste any more”, he commented, still on the grass of the Puskás Arena.
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It hadn’t even started like in Qatar. There, in Doha, as in Budapest Played in overtime. Neither did the athletic Nahuel Molina hold out any longer, nor did Jesús Navas get enough air this Wednesday. And as the cliché says, Montiel is out to add new legs to the game. Did Lionel Scaloni think he was submissive to the person who would make him a legend? I definitely don’t want to. Not a handkerchief either.
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“I’m privileged, I thank God I raised a Trophy”, he summed up sparingly in words after the finale in front of the Movistar+ microphones. He didn’t even want to pay attention to a strange fact. Mendilibar and his players put together the shooting list and it was his turn to take the fifth penalty. “In principle I would have scored the last one, but they talked to each other and changed it,” the Basque coach later said.
Montiel: “I kept going”
Did he continue because he hoped to repeat a moment of glory? “It was like that, I went ahead and it can happen”unwillingly explained whether the hero really wanted to provoke fate.
His expressions were cold, much more emotional in celebration with an Argentine flag on his face, a World Cup and the caption “Lucas, Teté and Ema, always there”. “They are my friends who passed away from the neighborhood where I was born and grew up. I always have them with me,” said the most unexpected double hero football has ever seen.
Source: Informacion
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