It was supposed to be another year as a reserve for Bologna’s starting striker for Santiago Castro (fantasy media: 8.17), which instead turned the tables by defeating the competition of Dallinga and Odgaard and becoming the reference terminal on Vincenzo’s board Italian.
With his performances and the statistics accumulated at the start of the season, the Argentine has earned the trust of the environment and of the former Fiorentina coach, who so far has started him from the 1st minute in all of Bologna’s official matches with the exception of for the away match in Como, where however the number 9 came on in the 63rd minute and turned the game around in the last half hour with 1 goal and 1 assist which had allowed the rossoblù to reach an unexpected draw.
It was precisely from the trip to the lake that Castro was unleashed, also scoring in the following match in Monza and in the one at Dall’Ara against Atalanta; in the middle he had been the most dangerous of his team in the 0-0 Champions League draw against Shaktar Donetsk, coming close to scoring at the end of the first half and halfway through the second. Furthermore, as reported by Opta, he is the second youngest player (born in 2004) in the top 5 European leagues to have scored 3 goals after Lamine Yamal.
In the summer it had arrived Dallinga to collect the heavy legacy of Zirkzee, but now the subdued performance of the former Toulouse player and the surprising start of the class of 2004 have revolutionized the hierarchies; at the moment Castro seems to be the Dutchman’s true successor to try to drag Bologna to amaze again in Italy and Europe.