Pedri Gonzalez He is undoubtedly one of the men of the moment at Barcelona. The Canarian player gave his team victory with the solitary goal to win in Girona and continue, one more week, at the top of the Santander League. As if this were not enough, at the age of 20 he completed 100 games with the jersey of the Barcelona and made history with the Barça team. He started the game from the bench, but had to come onto the field in the 25th minute after an injury to Dembele’s and later he would score his 15th goal since he arrived at the culé club in 2020.
This January 28, 2023 will be kept in the head of the Tenerife to become a centenary with the Barcelona. 100 games and 15 goals to his credit at his young age, surpassing great illustrious names of the club such as Andres Iniesta, an icon for the Catalan fans. Since he debuted with the jersey of the Barcelona, Pedri He has had to live with the eternal comparisons with the mythical ‘8’ of the club, the same number that he currently wears. compare to iniesta con Pedri At just 20 years old, it is somewhat unfair for the canary, but in data, the former de the palms he has nothing to envy.
Pedri he has managed 15 goals in his first 100 games, but when compared to his namesake, he managed just five goals when he reached the centenary mark. And it is that the 20-year-old midfielder is one of the great figures in the scheme of Xavi Hernandez. Beside Gaviboth are called to command the midfield of the team for the next decade, and always with hasty comparisons with Iniesta and Xavi himself.
with this goal, Pedri has entered another select group of players in the Barcelona to score on the day they completed their 10th game with the Barça shirt. He did it Ronaldinho in 2005, also Pedro in 2011 or Neymar in 2015, being the last to achieve it. Now, Pedri he can look into the eyes of great illustrious names of Barcelona at only 20 years of age.
Xavi does not settle
Despite the great performance that has been showing this season, as in the previous ones, Xavi Does not conform. The technician of terrace He continues to ask for more when he sees that he is a player without limits: “It is differential for us and it still has to be more important,” he declared at a press conference at the end of the match against Girona.
Own Pedri He is aware that he has to give more and that is why the player has taken a step forward, especially in the scoring aspect: there are already three goals in the last four games. He did it before him Real Madrid in the end of the Super Cup and he did the same last week to give him the three points against Getafe.
