This beautiful story about Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma seems to have no end. Each week he adds new stories to surprise with his efficiency (he adds up 11 goals in the last 11 league matches), just after that, at the beginning of the season, there was a discussion about if he was a short-lived fashion. That nine first matches in which he remained empty (he didn’t score any goal) intensified the discussion about him.
Pedro has reacted so strongly that threatens to beat his own numbers. In the last season he got 23 goals in 52 fixtures, a great number, but now he’s placed in 17 in all the competitions, in only 31 matches, plus being an untouchable player of the luxury forward line, made up together with Messi and Villa. “I can still improve a lot of things”, said the winger, agreeing with the statement that Guardiola himself had made some minutes before. “Of course he has to improve, but he’s making a great season”, highlighted the Barça coach.
“What do I have to improve? The dribbling, the one vs one, the pass to the area and tactically some more things”, said the Barça striker, convinced about that in that search of perfection he would make himself even more valued than he is now. Because Pedro is not only the goal, but he also contributes with his defensive generosity, a key in Barça’s pressure, and he also is one of the most accurate when shooting: 40 shots, 25 to the goal and 11 goals. And he also makes more faults (25) than those he receives (23).
After overcoming that hard beginning, burdened because he almost hadn’t any pre-season due to the World Cup, where he also was a decisive player, Pedro has acquired a great prominence with five goals at the four matches of 2011. “It is the great moment of the team what is helping all of us. It is not just something personal”, said the striker, who resorted to “the intuition and something more” to explain his ability to be in the right moment when the ball appears. Pedro never arrives too soon, or too late. He always bursts at the right time. Like last Saturday, when he shot with his breast the sensational collective move bore of a short corner kick.
“We work on that moves during the week”, admitted later the winger. Well it has gone very well for Barça because at the first minute of the match, just after coming out from the dressing room, he was already winning Racing. And Pedro was increasing those statistics which allow him to sign more than one goal each two matches.
The goal is what it’s seen about him. The most decisive part. But there are a lot more ‘Pedros’ in that little body that arrived three years ago coming from the anonymous grounds of the third division. The player from the Canary Islands has given, for example, more assists in the League (7) than Villa (6), but half than Messi (15). Pedro shoots and Pedro Assists.
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