Asensio has a central role in Luis Enrique’s PSG and leaves Gonçalo Ramos out of the eleven. Madrid could have let the wrong man go.
Marco Asensio is not an attacker. At least that’s what they told us.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti had a hole to fill in the center of attack at several times last year. First Karim Benzema got injured and then Rodrygo got a blow. Worse still with Álvaro Rodríguez, despite scoring a memorable header in the final minute to equalize the Madrid derby, he did not trust himself to play the 90 minutes as a pure number 9.
Asensio, for his part, never had the chance to prove his worth as an attack leader. Ancelotti played the Spaniard as a winger and occasionally even as a right back. So it was logical that Asensio was allowed to leave for free. Ancelotti could not include him in the squad as the supposed arrival of other key players would have made him an expensive substitute.
But it seems Ancelotti may have made the wrong decision. Asensio, now at PSG, has been tasked with playing centrally in Luis Enrique’s team, and he has done very well. The Spaniard scored two goals, assisted another and was a constant source of chance creation in a role Ancelotti did not give him. It has become clear, if only in the last month of play, that Madrid may have let the wrong man go.
Source: Goal