Five appearances, including one as a starter, in two months. What happened to him James Rodriguez? Everyone was waiting for the Colombian playmaker in the Copa del Rey match played yesterday by Rayo Vallecano on the Villamuriel pitch; however, the former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich player did not travel with the team due to “some physical discomfort”, awaiting an official statement from the Madrid club.
Since signing for Rayo at the end of August, James is still looking for the best physical condition to be able to regularly enter coach Íñigo Perez’s eleven. “It wasn’t a technical decision,” assured the coach, but some alarms are starting to sound. So far he has played only 123 minutes divided into five games, very little for a player called upon to make the difference and who should have been the team’s star player.
A situation that causes discussion, especially because in the meantime the player has always been called up by Colombia and has always been fielded as a starter.