The Champions League football has been a dream stage, and Alejandro Garnacho did not take long to script his own drama, with the lights shining on the Stamford Bridge. His stinging motion and bare velocity, and the sort of daredevil spirit that can be attributed to strikers twice his age, boosted Chelsea to an initial 1-0 defeat by Bayern Munich with a characteristically gritty victory over Benfica. Yes, Jose Mourinho managed Benfica, and he is the man who invented the “siege mentality” long before Garnacho was born.
Alejandro Garnacho and the accidental brilliance
Let’s be honest: Garnacho’s cross-turned-scramble-turned-“oops, own goal” wasn’t exactly one for the Louvre. It was more like modern art—confusing, messy, but still worth applause. Pedro Neto whipped the ball across, Garnacho kept the danger alive at the back post, and poor Richard Rios decided to audition for Chelsea’s highlight reel by putting the ball into his own net. The Bridge erupted, and Garnacho celebrated like he’d just won a Grammy.
According to sources: confidence is contagious
Inside the Chelsea dressing room, sources whisper that Garnacho’s confidence has been impossible to ignore. He has entered a team of wingers and has won his niche, letting others on the team to know he is no cameo: he is the headliner. Enzo Maresca instructed him to go against defenders one-on-one and Garnacho has been doing just that, similar to a child who skipped school but still passed the exam.
Alejandro Garnacho in my opinion
Here’s the thing: Garnacho isn’t just a future prospect—he’s Chelsea’s present. The swagger, the directness, the refusal to hide when the ball finds him… those are intangibles you can’t teach. Sure, he still needs to polish his decision-making, but you don’t teach fearlessness. and on a champions league nocturn that might have slipped away, he provided Stamford Bridge with precisely what it desired–outcry that became triumph.
Might have been losing their heads of late with red cards coming as confetti, but Garnacho reminded fans that with all the craziness, there is joy, grit and a lot of promise in blue.
As featured on Chelseanews.com
