It’s fair to say that the international break has not been a happy one for Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Raúl Jiménez.
The striker travelled to be a part of Mexico’s squad in this break but has endured a miserable time so far and we covered reports yesterday about he had been booed when brought on as a substitute.
FOX Deportes pick up on that today with some harsh criticism of the player, stating that the Wolves man ‘lives in a process of decline’ at this moment in time.
That has now directly impacted the Mexican team, with his inclusion in the squad for the World Cup having already caused plenty of criticism, particularly when he was performing worse than other options such as Santiago Giménez.
That’s continued to this point as Jiménez is ‘not even the shadow’ of the player he was three years ago, before he suffered a fractured skull in the sickening collision with David Luiz.
He’s not scored for his country since the qualifying campaign for the World Cup and isn’t even creating chances to rectify that.
As far as FOX are concerned he’s in ‘a moment of notorious decline’ and his place with El Tri has to be seriously questioned.
That’s a sentiment shared by Pasion Aguila, who say Wolves striker’s latest failure to find the back of the net means he’s reach ‘a lamentable record’ for the Mexican national team.
They say it is clear he is going through ‘one of the most complex moments’ in his career, with 30th March marking a year since his last goal on international duty.
Minuto D, meanwhile, cover Jiménez and the four other players in the current Mexico squad who were booed by fans recently.
They say he is going through a ‘terrible sporting moment’ and it is clear that the ‘bad present’ that he is living with Wolves is affecting him.
They explain that ESPN spoke to fans after the game in which he was booed, with those comments highlighting the issue further.
“Maybe it was the injury, but it’s incredible that they didn’t put Santiago Giménez, who is the top scorer in Europe, and Raúl hasn’t scored a single goal,” one, called Ricardo, is cited as saying.
Another, Raúl, added; “Why didn’t he leave his place when he was injured in Qatar? He continues to live off that great goal at the Azteca. At Wolverhampton he hasn’t done anything and having Santiago Giménez, we all wanted to see Santi and not Raúl.”
A miserable week away from Wolves for Jiménez, then, who it seems needs a fresh start and a goal both domestically and internationally as frustration grows on both fronts.
