“Physically is the best Bakambu since it arrived”

He has signed nine goals So far this season between LaLiga, Conference and Copa del Rey. Six of them, in the continental competition. There a challenge is raised. Know if you will keep the success. Bakambu has marked in the last four games he has played with the Verdiblanco team at Conference. The streak began just over two months ago. In a decisive moment. Betis faced the game against the Gent in the Play-Off’s first leg. Bakambu, after receiving an assistance from Isco, made the second goal of the game. And minutes later she was also in the action that, culminated by Altimira, became the final 0-3 for Betis.

A week later, Bakambu did not participate in the leading meeting of the tie at Benito Villamarín that ended with a triumph of the Gent by 0-1. Already in the round of 16, the team trained by Manuel Pellegrini faced the crossing with the Vitoria de Guimaraes. Bakambu replied. Being also the footballer who opened the scoring in both games. In the draw (2-2) of the first leg in the Benito Villamarín. And seven days later, the Congolese striker was key. Before Ecuador of the first half already had the Betic team two goals in the scoreboard, both with the firm of Bakambu. Betis ended up winning the match 0-4 and sealed the pass to the rooms.

To the goals in the last four games he has played at Conference, the one he signed in mid -December in the League phase and that served to decide the triumph of Betis at home is added to the Petrocub (0-1). Six goals this season and one that scored shortly after arriving at the Betic team in the winter market of 2024. In February, in the return of the Play-Off Qualifier of Conference, Bakambu scored in the Zagreb dynamo-Betis (1-1). Seven goals in total carries the Congolese striker as a Verdiblanco footballer in Europe. With the current one there are 15 seasons in which Betis has participated in some continental competition and the top scorer is Alfonso With eight. Seven carries Bakambu and with six appears The Celso.

So far this season, in addition to the balance presented in European key, Bakambu adds a goal in Copa del Rey. Also two in LaLiga, in matches that ended in Betic Triumph. Marked in the last moments of the Mallorca-Betis (0-1) And the second of the three Verdiblancos goals against the Leganés (2-3).

«The march of Vitor Roque and feeling ‘very title’ at the conference because Cucho Hernández is not registered has given him peace of mind and confidence. For me the key is not only the success before the goal, that the strikers are very gusts, the most important thing is that physically it is the best Bakambu since it arrived »he states OLIBetic striker between 1997 and 2000.

«The professional footballer, when he is physically well, gives security in the body, the actions, the duels and of course, in a striker, before the goal. Now he is in a good physical condition that has already added to the fact that he has had minutes. Feeling holder at the Conference has settled. He is calmer because he feels a starter and because he knows better physically. With that spark point that earns races to the central, that meter of advantage. That gives you security, ”he adds in the course of the talk with ABC of Seville. «When the demand is high, you have to be very good physically and he, between injuries and has not had continuity, has not been well physically. And continuity is given to play. The goalkeeper and strikers are very specialists. And there is a moment, that we say the players, in which you lose the location, the site. The subway, two meters. The intuition of where the ball falls, ”thinks oli.

Goal options

The Asturian played between 1997 and 2000 a total of 110 official matches with Betis scoring 23 goals. He also knows what he means to see goal with the Verdiblanco team in continental competition. He scored a goal in UEFA Cup and another in the European Recopa. In the course of the talk with ABC of Seville, it extends the assessment of Bakambu’s football and the current moment for which the Verdiblanco striker crosses recalling that “he has an in -depth uncheck, which offers the possibility that the partner of a deep pass. The diagonals that he throws, the unchecking that makes the partner, are almost always good. Above now he wins the advantage that he is well physically. Before he could give the same movement but the defense won the advantage or body. Now he continues to make the same movements but get the advantage to reach hand with the goalkeeper ».

On the path of Bakambu to the opposite goal you cannot forget a key factor, that of the assists offered by their peers. Without going any further, it could be checked on Thursday at Benito Villamarín with the innals in depth pass in the action that ended in the first goal of the game. «For those players it is also good to have a Bakambu style player because he asks for the ball to space. For people like Lo Lo Lo Lo, Fornals, Isco, who see the movement and pass line, is wonderful, ”thinks oli.

In LaLiga

Bakambu fulfilled his first year as a Verdiblanco footballer. He has a contract at Betis until June 2026. The striker reached the number of one hundred matches in the First Division on Sunday. 75 of them were with the Villarreal and 25 shirt so far in Betis. There is the circumstance that Bakambu’s debut, then Villarreal footballer took place in a match played at Benito Villamarín. It happened in August 2015, on the first day of the championship, in a Betis-Villarreal that ended with the result of 1-1. The striker was an initial substitute and replaced Baptista in the 61st minute and Bakambu’s number one in LaLiga also took place in Heliopolis. On Sunday, after being an initial substitute, the striker had his opportunity at the time of meeting when he replaced Cucho Hernández.