2023-06-12 16:28:03
Ethan Ampadu. Emmanuele Mastrodonato / PANORAMIC
LE SCAN SPORT – Player belonging to Chelsea, loaned this season to La Spezia, Ethan Ampadu is on a strange dynamic. His last three loans ended in three relegations.
Vice goes very far. Ethan Ampadu, 22, disputed yesterday with his club from La Spezia (Italy), the downhill play-off in Serie B against Hellas Verona. If Verona opened the scoring in the 5th minute, the Welsh defender equalized ten minutes later. His first career goal. But in the end: his team from La Spezia loses the match 3 to 1 and therefore goes down a level.
The story could end here. But Ethan Ampadu could have celebrated a (sad) statistic on Sunday evening. For three years, the Welsh international (42 caps) has been successively loaned to Sheffield United in 2020/2021, Venice in 2021/2022 then La Spezia this season. What do these three teams have in common? When Ampadu arrived on loan at these clubs, they were all relegated at the end of the season! The defender is therefore on a series of three descents in three seasons with three different clubs. A real black cat.
If the defender will return to Chelsea at the end of the month, it is difficult to say at present whether he will return on loan next season. It remains to be seen whether Mauricio Pochettino is superstitious… Chelsea, who have not won the Premier League since the 2016/2017 season, would do without a black cat for the coming season.
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