Cedric BakambuReal Betis striker, is alternating with Vitor Roque at the top of the green and white attack while Manuel Pellegrini makes changes to the system waiting for Lo Celso to return as starter or Isco to fully recover. The Congolese is having an irregular start to the campaign but much is expected from his performance this season as the spearhead of the Heliopolitan group.
At 33 years old, Bakambu was one of Betis’ signings in the last January market but his performance has been affected by the serious muscle injury he suffered in the derbywhich joined the one he also had in Zagreb. Two mishaps that have slowed down his contribution.
Now he has minutes again but Vitor Roque is ahead. They can meet on the field and Bakambu points out his preferences. «TO I like to play accompanied more. It doesn’t matter if he’s a striker or if he’s a number 10, but I don’t like being alone in the attack. That’s why on Osasuna day with Vitor Roque or Chimy and also with Giovani (Lo Celso), who has a very good pass… Or Isco, who everyone knows and who has a lot of quality too. The most important thing is to play with teammates, I like to associate in the game, asking for the ball from depth as well. That’s what I like most on the field,” he stated in an interview with Estadio Deportivo.
Regarding his significant muscle injury that prevented him from playing the final stretch of last season and the beginning of the current one, Bakambu said that “it is the first time in my career that I have had an injury like this. I have suffered, because I thought I would return to my maximum level in a couple of weeks, but There is a difference between what I want and reality. So you have to be patient, but I am working a lot with the coaching and medical staff and I am continuing on the right path.”
«On a physical level sometimes you want to do something, but the body is not going to give you the mobility that you want and then it will cost you to return to your level. You have to do more things than before, you have to work more than before and that’s why I tell you that I’m learning too. But it’s okay, now I feel better every week, every day, so you have to keep going and never give up. I want to play every game at my highest level as before. But the reality today is that I need a little more time to reach this level,” considered the forward, who was aiming for European objectives: “The path is good and today we have four points, three games left. “You have to do things well to qualify.”
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