Santiago Giménez makes a big impression on the television analysts with his header against Sturm Graz (6-0 win). The Mexican striker of Feyenoord came in for Danilo after an hour of play and put his name on the scoreboard two minutes later. “This is just a good striker, isn’t it?”, Kenneth Perez responds in the studio of ESPN. “Everything we’ve seen so far, he’s doing well.”
Giménez was taken over from CD Cruz Azul in the final phase of the summer transfer window and is slowly brought in by Arne Slot. The Mexican has never been in the starting line-up once, but has already come in six times. In just 121 minutes, Giménez scored no fewer than 4 times: no less than one goal every thirty minutes. His last goal, Thursday evening in the Europa League against Sturm Graz, was made by the attacker with the head, after a beautiful cross with the outside left of Patrik Wålemark.
Giménez’s vicious header impresses Pierre van Hooijdonk. “I see so few players in the Eredivisie with this header technique,” said the former Feyenoord striker. “I only see few who can header that well. I also always look: how would I have walked myself in the sixteen. And he does the same as me. At Danilo I always have the feeling that I have to play a little more football.”
Perez thinks it won’t be long before Giménez is in the starting line-up. “He can do everything a striker should be able to do. No matter how he finishes! I really don’t see a lot of strikers in the Netherlands finish that way. I think Danilo is the lesser striker of those two, if I’m honest. really confident. This is really a striker.”
In ‘s studio Veronica Hélène Hendriks calls Giménez’s timing ‘Wim Kieft-esque’. “Well, you don’t know that at all, you’re much too young for that,” Kieft responds. The former striker thinks Giménez’s goal is beautiful. “I like the way he shows that he is there, with the aggressiveness and the will to score. That’s beautiful, isn’t it? You can question the way of covering, but look, what a beautiful timing, dude.”