The Belgian talent has not marked in the championship since December 22nd. In the goddess his involution weighs a lot
Obviously, this is only a temporal coincidence: it is not the case to inconvenient psychological implications from the analyst’s bed. Charles De Ketelaere has slipped into the tunnel inside which, for some time, he has been able to see only faint flashes, in the initial half of February. On the first day of the month, with the first point made by Atalanta (1-1 with Turin: CDK still played a discreet game), it also became officially – but in fact it was already since the summer, for this reason we are talking about coincidences – a Nerazzurri player: this was established by the formula agreed with Milan, to transform his loan into a definitive purchase. In the middle of the month the double Champions League challenge with Bruges, the Trampolino team for his take -off: he had to be a showcase, it was the real beginning of his moment not. As if in that blender of this, future and past, he had tried dizziness from which he still struggles to recover.
Negative mood
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Yesterday, the first day of preparation of the fundamental Sunday match with Lazio, De Ketelaere went to triple figure, and would have gladly made it without: 100 days from his last goal in the championship, December 22 against Empoli. After, a couple of flashes (goals and assist) against the Sturm Graz and Stop. Switch off, or almost. The player who had convinced anyone who wonders how Milan had missed it has fallen into empty and impalpability voids similar to those of his most unfinished Rossoneri days. Imprisoned by a negative mood from which it struggles to shake. And the impression is the same as then: more than a physical problem, and even less technical, it is mental. Loss of sureness, trust, self -esteem.
The “click” that is missing
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This is what for a couple of months has been seen in the game, but also in training: De Ke Keetolare who also sought unimaginable games for others, now too often it is limited to the “homework” without ventilation: try less the play, dribbling, shooting, is less “bad” in one against one. Twisted in an involution that makes it much more legible. Not resigned, and this is important: the gesture of anger with which he rebelled against that shot targeted outside in Florence, immediately before going out – his only true flash on Sunday – showed a boy who wants to go back from that abyss. Charles caught because only a few months ago that goal would have done it for sure. Because he knows he can do it again, and perhaps just that is missing, only that: a “clic” that unlocks and makes him feel confident again as in the past. Before Sunday, he could have already happened in Verona: he rejected him the post. Or precisely against Bruges, when Gasperini wanted him to be him, and not Lookman, who gave a demonstration of strength by taking responsibility for kicking that penalty later wrong by the Nigerian.
Eight races to relaunch themselves
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Of course, Gasperini is not resigned, and obviously, and shows it to him in words, making him play (in the post Bruges owner three times out of five), replacing him even after staggers and Lookman (in Florence). Because he knows that Lookman is speed, unpredictability, change of rhythm; What a do you do is a killer in the penalty area. But he also knows that De Ketolare of that trident is the man with more qualities, the one who makes the team play football. That can make the games turn, and now the final of the Atalanta vintage: last year after 43 seasonal races had scored the same goals as this year (11) and after 29 games played in the league only two more than now (7 against 5). But above all: in the last eight races of the last tournament he marked four times. They are missing as many: there is still time to see light at the bottom of that tunnel.
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