Tammy Abraham is waiting for the moon

One can be faithful to oneself while proving to be totally antithetical to the representation given of oneself up to now. And in doing so, one can also avoid falling into a paradox, because the demonstration starts from assumptions that are recognized as valid and reaches conclusions that do not conflict with common sense and are not denied by empirical evidence. Above all they are not contradictory. Because the contradiction is inherent in the demonstration, or rather in who is the object of this demonstration.

This season 2022/2023 Tammy Abraham seems the perfect antithesis of Tammy Abraham of the 2021/2022 season. They seem two totally dissimilar players, not even comparable. The point that has become perfect for José Mourinho’s game has now become convoluted, shrunken, it appears completely changed to such an extent that Mou himself, watching him play, stay on the pitch, has begun to assume doubtful expressions, at times embarrassed. Nevertheless the Tammy Abraham of a year ago and the one of now are the same person, and this is quite obvious, but above all the same player, with the same characteristics and the same strengths, weaknesses and ability to stay on the field and in the team. Little or nothing has changed in the game of Mourinho’s team, nothing has changed in Tammy Abraham and if he doesn’t score, if he makes a mistake, if he sometimes seems out of position it is precisely because he is the same player as last season. What changed was only the state of the motion of his being a footballer.

What has changed is just that Tammy Abraham has completed her very personal wave, has become a breaker, has reached the shore and now has undertook. This time had to come for an attacker who on the pitch, in matches and in the season, has always moved forward, goes forward, by crests and cables, alternating appearances and absences. He has always been like this.

Frank Lampard was the first to notice, or at least externalized it. He coached him at Chelsea, it was the first days of February 2021, when he admitted that he was not surprised by the performance of his number 9 who at that time was struggling to hit the goal, not just to score. “Tammy is an exceptional striker, but alas he takes a break from himself every now and then. If he has a problem when he reaches the top of his condition, he struggles more than the others ”. So far he had scored six goals and conceded two assists in fourteen games. He no longer scored for the rest of the season, also due to an ankle problem. It had been like this the year before: thirteen goals and four assists in twenty-three games, then the moment of loss, physical problems, too many games to drag around the field and waste scoring.

The English past has returned to Rome. Tammy found himself in his usual cul de sac, he became a calm sea. She took it three months a year ago. Mourinho knows very well that he will return, that it takes patience (it still exists in football, just think of Milan), because the tides depend on the combined action of the gravitational attraction exerted by the Moon on the water mass and on the centrifugal force that arises from the reciprocal movement. of the Earth and the Moon in space. To think that man, even if Special One, can oppose all this is pure madness.

Meanwhile, Tammy is waiting to get her ridge back, hoping for the rescue of unlikely winds in her back that she knows will not come, because it takes the Moon, the right attraction. Or at least he should know, Tammy Abraham, the Roma fans will have already understood it.

Olives is the rubric of Giovanni Battistuzzi about (not necessarily) the protagonists of Serie A. In the first episode we talked about Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Naples), in the second by Emil Audero (Sampdoria), in the third by Boulaye Dia (Salernitana), in the fourth by Tommaso Baldanzi (Empoli) , in the fifth by Marko Arnautovic (Bologna), in the sixth he entertained Gabriele Spangaro with Beto (Udinese), in the seventh by Christian Gytkjær (Monza), in the eighth Armand Laurienté (Sassuolo), in the ninth Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio ), in the tenth Sandro Tonali (Milan), in the eleventh Cyriel Dessers (Cremonese).