Isco returns to the start of his nightmare

Isco arrived at Real Madrid in the summer of 2013. Since he donned the white jersey, the Malaga-born player has won everything with the 'merengue' team and has had games and years of great brilliance, but is now passing through his lowest moment at the club.

The former Malaga player seems to have been condemned to an eternal background role that has sparked rumours of a possible departure in January or, failing that, at the end of the current season.

Despite his quality, the midfielder does not seem to have the confidence of Zinedine Zidane and is unable to reverse a downhill trajectory that began at the venue that Madrid will visit this weekend: Ipurua.

There, in November 2018, Isco began his ordeal at Real Madrid after starring in a controversial incident with Santiago Solari in a game that ended in a resounding 3-0 for Eibar. The player, as 'AS' recalls, refused to greet the then coach 'merengue' and the events unfolded.

From that day on, even after Zidane's return (with whom he shone in several sections of his first stage), Isco has played a more than secondary role and his minutes have plummeted. The previous year he barely exceeded 1600 minutes and the figures were not much better in the 2018-19 campaign (just over 1700 minutes).

This year he has only had 346 minutes of play. Far from seasons like 2014-15 under Carlo Ancelotti, in which the midfielder accumulated a total of 3,765 minutes and 42 starts. Good times that contrast with the difficult current situation of a player who will have many things on his mind this Sunday when he steps on the Ipurua grass.