Julian Alvarez has found the first goal of the season with Argentina fanele, marking the 7-0 victory over Burkina Fasos on 3 October.

This goal gives Atletico Madrid’s attacker a significant boost after a difficult start of the season at the club level.

The 26-year-old attacker has had little room in Diego Simeones’ formation in the first weeks of the season.

In the first three games of La League, Alvarez gathered only 83 minutes, always being activated by the bench before a muscle overload left out the challenges to Real Sociedad and Ossawa.

He returned to derbin to Real Madrid, but again started the match from the pancaina and activated for the last 30 minutes. Athletico triumphed 2-1, but the Argentinians failed to register goals or assistance.

His situation in Madrid follows a turbulent summer during which Barcelona tried to transfer him.

The Catalan club submitted a 100m-euro bid and intended to close the deal during July, but Atletico Madrid refused to negotiate the offensive’s departure.

Even the club’s president, Miguel Angel Gil Marin, had declared that Atletico would not accept offers of 100, 150m or not 200m euros for Alvarez.

Argentina’s contract with the Madrile Club by June 2030, while its release clause is 500m euros.

During the summer, Alvarez had expressed a desire to get to Barcelona, but the transfer was not realised and he returned to Simeon’s project. Meanwhile, its market value has also suffered decline, from 120m euros to 110m euros, according to the latest update of Transfermark.

This is another sign of a season’s beginning under expectation for the assailant, who in the first seven weeks of last season had scored six goals in La League.

The goal of Burkina Faso can serve as a starting point for a return to Alvarez in his best form.

Now, his objective is to carry this positive moment even to Atletico Madrid and win more minutes in Simeon’s formation. /Telegraphy/