Bakambu and Cucho change the life of Betis’s front

One of them can be done in the stroke. And in these last weeks in which The wind has changed and has become in favor Of the greenish interests, it can be affirmed that the contribution of Bakambu and the variations in the squad that the entity has made in the Winter markethand in hand with sports management and coach, with Arrivals of Antony and Cucho Hernández and the outputs of Vitor Roque, Juanmi and Assane DiaoHan changed the life to the lead of the team. To all this we must also add the trust that the coaching staff headed by the Chilean coach has given him to Jesús Rodríguezone of the great hopes of the Betic quarry in recent times.

It must be focused on the analysis on Bakambu. The Congolese striker looks like another. It is true that in the little more than a year that has been in Betis, he has had to overcome two injuries, the second of an important gravity. The former Villarreal player, among others, He scored a goal last season in the Conference League against the dynamo of Zagreb and in that same game he fell injured for the first time. Then, in him Derbi of the second round last season against Seville in it Villamarínwhen I was a goal against Nyland To score, he suffered the worst injury -in a player who so far he was injured quite little, not to say anything -the one who had him away from the playing land until the end of September. It was at the end of those five long months in which a particular preseasonit cost him to enter and I did not see the goal easilywhich after all is what the strikers live, to score goals.

A personal coach

Bakambu came from Galatasaray in one Bad season personally. Between the goal with Betis in Croatian lands in that conference duel, which ended the elimination of the first Verdiblanco team, and His last goal with the Ottoman team’s shirt spent almost three months. But now, already recovered one hundred percent, after the striker born in France has recognized that in these months he has put himself In the hands of a personal coach that has helped him recover your best physical levelits contribution begins to remember at the level it showed in the Castellón team between 2015 and 2018, with a special link with the European competition.

He scored The goal of the triumph (0-1) with which the Betis tried in the league phase his pass to the next round of the continental tournament in Moldova before the Petrocub December 12. And on January 25 marked the goal from which this ‘new’ bakambu has been seen. It was in Majorcaon the 21st league day. In the discount, when the duel languished with the draw to zero and gave continuity to the irregular season that the Pellegrini team was doing so far, the Congolese headed at the bottom of the goal a measured center from the right of the Canterano Ángel Ortiz. His first goal of the season in LaLiga and three important points for the team. Since then, five more goals: in Ghent, three (of the six that marked Betis) in the last link of the conference before the Vitoria de Guimaraesone in the first leg and two in the return; And the goal that was worth momentarily the draw to two last Sunday in Leganés in the match that ended up winning the Heliopolitan team for fifth consecutive match in LaLiga. A total of 8 goals and three assists (He also marked Gévora in the first round of the Copa del Rey), which causes the International for the Democratic Republic of Congo to have had a direct goal participation (The Goals and also the Assistance) Every 116 minutes which has played in what is played for the 24-25 season.

All this is doing to Cedric Bakambu Feel important for the first time in Betis and, also because of the circumstances, one of those chosen to be holder (In recent weeks, mainly) in the Conference League. Vitor Roque and Juanmi left and, although the Chimy Ávila You can also play there, for the European competition it is the only born center striker, something that is taking advantage of a thousand wonders. He competed for the position with the Brazilian and both rotated in the tip of the team until the footballer assigned by Barcelona left transferred by the Barça to the Palmeiras. And it has been in the continental tournament where the Franco-Congoleño has found the minutesthe trust and the Goals that I needed in the Way for your particular improvement.

So happy He could be seen after the last game. Bakambu came from about ten days personally, with the three goals to the Portuguese Vitoria between the first leg and the return and its active participation in Butarquecausing the penalty that Isco turned into the momentary 2-1 and scoring, after collecting Dmitrovic’s rejection to the distant missile of Bartra, the then tie to two. He was asked at the end of the match in Madrid for his return with the Congolese team and Bakambu claimed that he was in a «Great moment to help the team and also Real Betis Balompié»expressing the words of the club name with A voice that was not yours And with enough grace, which caused the laughs by Edu Carrillo, companion of the official media that interviewed him.

It is true that the fact that he is Unique ‘9’ for Conference and the Cucho Hernández could not be registered Because he bet on Fran Vieites, Isco and Antony, is allowing the two strikers to enjoy how holders of a competition eachbut it is no less true that, in a party like Leganés, with the 2-0 against and the difficulty that Betis had in the first hour of playing to Borja Jiménez’sthe possibility of play with two strikers He took advantage of Pellegrini as honey on flakes.

Happy premiere in Butarque

It was before the Leagnés and, in addition, to give Betis the final victory with the final 2 to 3 in Butarque last Sunday, when Finally it premiered as a scorer From the Verdiblanco team the Colombian Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández. The striker, signed in the last winter market for 13 million euros to Columbus Crew of the American MLS, he had shown Good ways in its first four games As a Betic player – all in LaLiga, since he could not be registered for the continental competition. Details such as know how to play back to the rival goal or good combination with their peers, Isco or Antony, mainly, but The goal was missingwhich finally arrived in Madrid lands. Pereira valued Thursday night on the official television of the club that “it is true that he had been playing well and that the team was winning, but The striker needs the goal. People expect that from me and I was anxious to mark the first and what better way to do it to win »said.