Getafe are heading for a save, but Jankto doesn’t come on at all. Why is he just sitting on the bench?

Jakub Jankto is playing for Getafe in Spain this season, but they are struggling in the fight for salvation. In the autumn, the team from the suburbs of Madrid looked very bad, but now the Azulones have a five-point lead to save.

Getafe were in the relegation zone for a long time in the autumn, for some time even in last place. But after the change of coach, they have picked themselves up and are in a quiet 15th place. With 37 points and Mallorca in eighteenth place on 32 points with three rounds to go, all indications are that Jankto and co. will continue to play in La Liga next season.

What has saved the Azulones the most is the home environment. They have won only once away from home, while at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez they had 7 wins and 6 draws. Jankto also sees the strength of the home environment.

“The games here are very even, it doesn’t matter if you play Barcelona at home or away in Osasuna. Although it may sound paradoxical to some, we have a better chance at home against Barcelona than when we go away. We have only won once there, but at home we are doing well, we are outplaying our opponents, we have beaten Real Madrid here and now we drew with Betis,” Jankto said on PREMIER CLASS.

But Jankto himself has not played much. At the beginning of the season he was in the starting line-up, but then he got injured for 4 months and in the meantime a new coach came in. He has spent the last four games on the substitutes’ bench.

“I can only evaluate the first 5 games, then I got injured. After that I couldn’t return to the line-up because even though the team played very well, the coach had no reason to change the line-up. I’m paying for that too, the new coach has changed a lot of positive things, we are going up. I’m at an age when I think more about the team than about my personal performance,” says the national midfielder.

He got his last big chance in February when he played 80 minutes against Atlético Madrid, then played the whole game at Cadiz. Then he came on for 10 minutes against Espanyol at the beginning of March and hasn’t played a minute since. Why is it that Jankto hardly gets a chance?

“It’s just the style and formation we play. We play 5-3-2 and I’m not a central defender, everybody knows that, I’m a row higher, maybe I’m paying for that. Even the coach tells me that, he knows I’m not an outside back. When you don’t play for 3 months, something is wrong. I’m sure we’ll figure out what to do in the summer, it wouldn’t make sense to stay here like this,” Jankto hints at a possible move from Madrid.

Source: PREMIER CLASS