Paul grows and stands in the mattress engine

The Argentine midfielder of Atlético de Madrid, Rodrigo de Paul, is surely the ‘metronome’ of the rojiblancos throughout the course, in which he is signing his best numbers since he became a mattress player in the 2021-2022 season.

Atlético de Madrid touched this campaign in the defeat of the 11th day of LaLiga EA Sports against Real Betis at Benito Villamarín (1-0). At that time, the mattresses were rooms in the league 10 points of the leadership, while in the Champions League they had only added three points of nine possible and saw very far the goal of finishing among the top eight classified.

However, since then, it all began to fit a team by Diego Pablo Simeone that since that date has won 19 of the 21 games he has played in all competitions. A march that has allowed him to occupy the second league square, to a point of the Real Madrid leadership, finish in the top eight in the Champions League phase and sneak into the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

And if there is a player who has stood out in this seasonal period, that has been Rodrigo de Paul. The Argentine midfielder has gone from being questioned in his game since his signing for his irregularity to find football maturity forming double pivot with Pablo Barrios, a more defensive player who has allowed him to let go more in attack and take care of the most organizational facet of the game of the team, although without giving up its usual physical deployment in defense.

The ‘Driblab’ data reflects their good moment in this season, in which he is signing his best figures in terms of participation in goals at this point in the course. De Paul has scored three goals-all of them in the League and some key such as 1-1 in the victory against FC Barcelona-and distributed seven assists-you are in the League, two in the Cup and three in the Champions League— , for a total of 10 goal contributions that are only one less than the 11 that he achieved in 2022-2023.

Therefore, the Argentine arrives at the derby in Santiago Bernabéu after having attended in his last two meetings-in Champions against the RB Salzburg and in a cup against Getafe. In addition, in Wednesday’s cupbearer duel he was especially brilliant generating two goal occasions and completing 33 passes, exhibiting a vision of the game and an incidence in the attack game of the team that made him a key figure to achieve the victory.

And since the defeat against Real Betis, the international has played 19 games among all competitions, in which he has completed 85 percent of the passes he has tried, has generated 23 goal occasions -more than one of one of one of Media per meeting-, and generated with their actions 8 expected goals.

In general terms, and compared to its performance last year, the Argentine has reduced their losses per encounter, and improved their expected assistance data, occasions created and long passes completed by party. In addition, De Paul is highlighting in the rhythm he gives to the team’s plays and how he is being much more vertical than other season. In fact, with 19.7 ball progression actions of more than 10 meters per game-with driving and pass-it is in the ‘Top 20’ of midfielders of the five major leagues in this aspect.