The Leeds winger has shown he can adapt to any circumstance, continuing to improve.
“We have belief and fight”: Crysencio Summerville he was talking about Leeds in November 2022, but it’s as if he was explaining his true being. In today’s football, as in contemporary society, life is becoming increasingly frenetic and fast, following an artistic approach that is the child of Marinetti’s futurism.
The exaltation of speed is not limited to a single play but to the very way of interpreting a role. If the offensive outsiders they seem to have become the new stars – from Vinicius to Leao, from Foden to Salah – the market and the teams never seem to be saturated with players of this type. Of the kind of Summerville – full name, for lovers of the genre: Crysencio Jilbert Sylverio Cirro Summerville.
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Historically, the connection between the Netherlands and England is always active: William III of Orange in History, Dennis Bergkamp and the most recent Virgil Van Dijk in history (of football). In the summer of 2020, a plane is leaving from Rotterdam The Hauge Airport for Leeds-Bradford with the young Crysencio on board. The 2001-born player is just another chapter in a bond between the two countries separated by the North Sea: the passage of Arne Slot from the Feyenoord bench to the glorious one of Liverpool is a very current story, in case it has not yet been understood.
The archetype that Summerville brings with him is that of a left wing attackeralso capable of occupying the opposite side of the field in exceptional cases. This position accompanied him in his formative experience in his homeland, where he had shown himself with the youth teams of Feyenoord and in a series of loans to theFC Dordrecht e all’Ado den Haag.
The pitch covered by Summerville in the last Championship.
Summerville is a player who makes the speed he was born in dribbling his best weapons, to which he combines a remarkable ability to lead the action, especially thanks to a control of the ball that is like glue on the feet. And yet a childish perfection that seems to belong to him innately, of Mozartian memory, had not characterized the beginning of his career.
The main flaw in his game seemed to be paradoxical for a player of his position: Dutch winger doesn’t scoreHis adventure in the Netherlands ended with a paltry haul of 2 goals scored in 21 games with the yellow and greens of ADO Den Haag (in addition, 0.15 xG total in 2019/20 and minutes/goals ratio of 0.12): almost all of thehype created after his previous experience with FC Dordrecht (5 goals in 18 appearances), suddenly disappeared.
Of that year, the data referring to the attempted dribble that leads to a shot on target (0.79) remains praiseworthy. In essence, Summerville also finds the target with ease but fails to score.
Next step
The passage through the ranks of Leeds seems to be the signal for the decisive leap in qualitythe chance to prove his worth on one of the most prestigious stages in European football. Summerville finds a Leeds swinging, Loco like his coach: he doesn’t make an impact, he doesn’t play consistently and he doesn’t score. A precise reflection of the corporate situation of the Whites, in a perpetual limbo between success and failure, between changes of ownership and structural opacity.
The first and true joy comes against a Liverpool in trouble. At Anfield, two days before Halloween 2022, Leeds becomes jack-o’-lanternthe bearer of a home prank. 89′, 1-1, final minutes of regulation time, a few moments after a sensational save by Meslier on Darwin Núñez. A ball touched in the area by Bamford arrives at the feet of Summerville: quick and elegant stop with his right foot, dry kick to the far post with what has been for years the secret weapon of all of us on a football pitch: the tip shot. 1-2, Leeds wins at Anfield.
From here on, the gates of paradise seem to open for Summerville. The next match, against Bournemouth, has a high level of exaltation; the score is 3-3, but the Dutch winger has not yet had his say. After having contributed indirectly to Cooper’s goal – a symptom, once again, of a predatory positioning on the pitch during the offensive phase – he is set up by Gnonto in a 3vs3 in open play. Summerville is all alone in front of Travers: a right-foot shot of pure power that ends up under the crossbar.
The progression is pure exaltation of its essence: supersonic speed, ability to insert himself, ball control, finishing perfected and honed over the years in the Netherlands. Leeds Bournemouth 4-3 is the winger’s calling carda starting point from which to improve more and more. Despite the stomachaches within the company, between sales and relegations, Summerville no longer plays the role of child prodigy. He evolves and improves, as if he had photographed every single minute of his match against Bournemouth and treasured it.
Evolution
Il 2023/2024with Leeds just relegated to the Championship, sees the Dutch player as the absolute protagonist: 49 games played and 21 goals in all competitions. To the already known characteristics he finally adds a more consistent ability to score: 16.4 xG seasonally, a goal every 185′. An abyss, compared to the years in the Eredivisie.
Summerville seems to play the role in modern and ambitious wayVery often he can be seen in the opponent’s penalty area even when not in possession, to always be ready in the finishing area on a high recovery in counter-attack.
But the leitmotif The goal is to receive the ball on the wing, come back towards the area and curl the ball towards the far post, all seasoned with a few dribbling. The latter is fast, quick, imperceptible and not easily defended by opponents: 56% of attempts to overcome the direct marker, thanks to that ball control that has accompanied him since the beginning of his career, is one of the best data of the entire Championship. This ability to create an advantage is now maximized by Summerville also in finishing: 9 assists from 12.53 xA are elite numbers for the English second division.
A beautifully filled and stuffed cake.
The practical evidence of his talent can be found in a good part of the season, but some performances really give an idea of what kind of player he has become. One of these is the one against Norwich City at Carrow Road: first Summerville scores with an unstoppable right-footed curler from outside the area, then enchants the English crowd with a self-portrait. Receiving the ball in his own half, carrying it alone, coming back onto his strong foot on the edge of the opponent’s penalty area and curling it in tight to the near post. Speed and precision, rapidity and coolnessGoalkeeper beaten and personal double.
The season ends with a half smile: how much weight should we give, otherwise, to the prize of Championship Player of the Year on the other side of a scale that sees Leeds’ defeat in the Wembley PlayOff final against Southampton?
What happened is unlikely to be one-season wonder: Summerville gave the impression of being able to adapt to the context and evolve together with the Whites. The space in the Championship now seems to be too small for him, ready to return to climb the Premier League ladder with greater awareness and the prospect of continuity. It’s a new episode of a historical recurrence, that England-Netherlands bond seems to have found a new protagonist in the Leeds winger. Summerville has long been on the notebook of a team coached by a Dutch emigrant like Arne Slot: History repeating itself?
2024-07-03 07:00:00
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