{"id":341293,"date":"2019-01-21T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=341293"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:38:18","slug":"report-alvaro-morata-completes-loan-to-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/01\/21\/report-alvaro-morata-completes-loan-to-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Alvaro Morata Completes Loan to Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish international <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/129af0db\/?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvaro Morata<\/a> has had a very hard time in English Football.\u00a0 Since his big-money transfer to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/chelseafootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a>, Morata has struggled to stay on the field and score goals. However, it appears he has been given a lifeline by one of his former clubs, as Chelsea have completed a loan agreement with Atletico Madrid, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1087303870131261440\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Alvaro Morata Returns to Madrid<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Morata from Chelsea to \u00c1tletico Madrid is a done deal. Confirmed. Here we go! ??\u26aa\ufe0f? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Atleti?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Atleti<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/transfers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#transfers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1087303870131261440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">21 January 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It has been a very rough time in England for Alvaro Morata.\u00a0 The 26-year-old striker has dealt with everything from injuries, to reports of being homesick, to simply not scoring goals.\u00a0 The Spanish international only scored 16 Premier League goals in the 18 months since his <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/07\/19\/chelsea-sign-alvaro-morata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a360 million move from Real Madrid.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is not the type of return that Chelsea signed up for.\u00a0 However, his eleven league goals last season were the most he&#8217;s scored in any season in his career.\u00a0 It was also the first time in his career that he had more than 20 league starts in a season, which are both curious statistics for someone worth so much money.<\/p>\n<p>This season under new manager <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/12\/28\/maurizio-sarris-midseason-report-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurizio Sarri<\/a>, Morata has been a constant for much of the season down the centre. Lately, though, as his form has gotten worse and worse, he has been phased out of the team, with <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/16ceb862\/?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivier Giroud<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a39bb753\/?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Hazard<\/a> preferred\u00a0down the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Now Morata will head back to Spain but to the other side of Madrid; Atletico Madrid.\u00a0 It is a place he knows well, he spent a few years there in the youth team before moving to Real Madrid. However, it is not a style of play he knows well. It might even be the opposite of the elegant striker&#8217;s style.<\/p>\n<p>Many have said that Morata needs to toughen up; it&#8217;s one of his biggest criticisms in the English game.\u00a0 If there is any place that knows tough, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/15\/atletico-madrid-can-win-la-liga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atletico Madrid<\/a> and Diego Simeone. It will be interesting to see how Morata does with Atletico and whether or not Simeone is able to toughen him up.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nyTZuk00ROZMVnp16Fh_NA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1066940550\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nyTZuk00ROZMVnp16Fh_NA',sig:'z4zKPNhCUrqQkJwMawwEISyNzurimtWwGobQPVUTEdI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1066940550',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish international Alvaro Morata has had a very hard time in English Football.\u00a0 Since his big-money transfer to Chelsea, Morata has struggled to stay on the field and score goals. However, it appears he has been given a lifeline by one of his former clubs, as Chelsea have completed a loan agreement with Atletico Madrid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2573,"featured_media":341800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,3],"tags":[1193,210,46,339,142,40,182,136],"class_list":["post-341293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-la-liga","category-premier-league","tag-alvaro-morata","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-chelsea","tag-diego-simeone","tag-la-liga","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}