Green is the colour for Gonzalo Bergessio

Saint Etienne started this season just like they ended the last one, with poor performances and they quickly found themselves in the relegation zone. Seeing that the team have taken the wrong path, the club management decided to act and brought a couple of very good players in the dying moments of the transfer window, but it was Argentine striker Gonzalo Bergessio who stole the spotlight in the last few weeks and he certainly looks like the man that can turn things around for Les Verts (The Greens).

This is not Bergessio’s first European club as he has already played a couple of games for Benfica after joining the Eagles from Racing Club but he failed to leave his mark in Portugal and quickly returned to Argentina, that is to San Lorenzo. A year and a half at San Lorenzo saw him emerge as one of the leading strikers in Argentina and impressive performances in Argentinean League helped him earn three caps for the national team. This is one of the reasons Bergessio opted to make a switch to France as he intends to get back in the reckoning for the national team before the World Cup in South Africa.

When the player arrived to Saint Etienne, he was expected to step right into the first team and didn’t have enough time to adapt but that didn’t stop him from scoring four goals in as many games for the new club. Bergessio immediately formed a special understanding with fellow striker Boubacar Sanogo and it is these two that are expected to solve the problems in the scoring department. Everybody at the club is delighted with Bergessio’s contribution at the start of his career and if he continues his current run of form, Les Verts will have no problems avoiding the drop.

This is the player that does a lot of work for the team but at the same time he is very ruthless in front of goal and you cannot ask much more from a striker. Coach Alain Perrin recognized the player’s winning mentality and expects some of it to rub off on other players. Team’s uptrend in form came as a logical result of Bergessio’s goals and Saint Etienne have slowly started climbing the Ligue 1 ladder. The signings they made in the nick of time like Bergessio, Sanogo and Fernandez seem to have been spot on and they couldn’t have signed better players even if they had had whole summer to think about them. The new players have added a lot of quality to the side, especially Bergessio, and I expect Les Verts to play even better when the players fully adapt to the new surroundings.

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